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Starting Line

startingline.vc Direct investor

Starting Line is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage consumer and AI startups, leading seed rounds. The team consists of experienced operators and investors.

Starting Line is a venture capital firm headquartered in Chicago, United States. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in consumer, AI, health and fintech.

“We invest with insane conviction at the earliest stage, leading seed rounds for founders in categories + industries before they are mainstream or well understood.”

— Starting Line, own website
Layer
Direct investor
Type
Venture capital
Stage
Seed
Headquarters
Chicago, United States
Invests in
US
Sectors
consumer, AI, health, fintech, marketplace, food, crypto, creator economy

Team, as Starting Line publishes it

  • Ezra Galston Partner
  • Ade Olonoh Fund I + II Venture Partner
  • Haley Kwait Zollo Partner
  • Scott Holloway Partner
  • Matt Maloney Venture Partner

Names and roles exactly as listed on startingline.vc. 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. 56 co-investors found.

and 46 more — the graph.

Where this comes from

Every fact above was read from a page Starting Line publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.

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Record 3332 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence medium

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