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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 81 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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