Origin Ventures
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Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies building AI infrastructure, AI-native software, and frontier technologies. The firm focuses on seed and Series A rounds and has a coast-to-coast presence in the US.
Origin Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Chicago, United States. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in AI Infrastructure, AI-Native Software and AI Frontier Tech.
“Origin Ventures invests in bold founders leading humanity into the fifth economic era - the Artificial Intelligence Economy - transforming how we live, work, and play.”
— Origin Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- AI Infrastructure, AI-Native Software, AI Frontier Tech
Team, as Origin Ventures publishes it
- Brent Hill Managing Partner
- Jason Heltzer Managing Partner
- Alex Meyer Managing Partner
- Linda Watchmaker CFO
- Scott Stern Partner
- Prashant Shukla Partner
- Jacquie Marshall Siegmund Partner
- Carolina Galdiz Investor
- Steve Miller Founding Partner
- Bruce Barron Founding Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on originventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 81 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Starting Line 3 shared companies: cameo.com, curbsidesos.com, poplin.co
- Mantis Capital Management, LLC 3 shared companies: shipveho.com, flowinc.app, burqup.com
- Edison Partners 2 shared companies: 15five.com, clearjet.com
- Bling Capital 2 shared companies: fountain.com, shipveho.com
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 2 shared companies: cameo.com, grubhub.com
- Left Lane Capital 2 shared companies: tovala.com, salad.com
- Matchstick Ventures 2 shared companies: shipveho.com, silkline.ai
- Salt VC 2 shared companies: clearjet.com, lumanu.com
- Run Ventures 2 shared companies: everee.com, pronto.io
- Lockheed Martin Ventures 2 shared companies: h3x.tech, intalustech.com
and 71 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Origin Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.originventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://www.originventures.com/thesissectors
- https://www.originventures.com/teampeople
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Record 787 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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