New Stack, LLC
newstack.com Direct investor
New Stack Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups, typically leading or co-leading rounds with checks between $500K and $1.5M. The firm focuses on founders outside traditional Silicon Valley networks, with an emphasis on vertical AI, fintech, healthcare, and industrials.
New Stack, LLC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Chicago, United States, founded in 2014. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in vertical AI, fintech, healthcare and industrials. Its stated cheque size is $500K - $1.5M check size.
“80%+ of Venture Capital is invested in Silicon Valley insiders. Yet, many of the most iconic companies were built by those who didn't attend Stanford, work for Big Tech, or call the Bay Area Home. We exist to back those founders.”
— New Stack, LLC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- Vertical AI, Fintech, Healthcare, Industrials
- Cheque size
- $500K - $1.5M check size
- Founded
- 2014
Team, as New Stack, LLC publishes it
- Nick Moran General Partner
- Luke Skertich Principal
- Brenna Kyper Director of Platform
- J.R. Moran Chief Operating Officer
- Nate Pierotti Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on newstack.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 85 co-investors found.
- Hyde Park Angels 3 shared companies: hologram.io, marketwagon.com, arraybc.com
- Corazon Capital 3 shared companies: draftbit.com, athotel.com, enclavecoworking.com
- ValueStream Ventures 2 shared companies: fairmarkit.com, xilo.io
- Left Lane Capital 2 shared companies: tovala.com, equipifi.com
- Matchstick Ventures 2 shared companies: getsnug.com, reemahealth.com
- LRVHealth 2 shared companies: reemahealth.com, sware.com
- V1 VC, LLC 2 shared companies: clora.com, getcara.ai
- Firstmile Ventures, LLC 2 shared companies: retailaware.com, kestrellabs.com
- MassVentures 1 shared company: fairmarkit.com
- Newfund 1 shared company: fairmarkit.com
and 75 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page New Stack, LLC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.newstack.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, people, status, confidence
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Record 2620 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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