Investments
9Portfolio Exits
2About Stuart Larkins
Stuart Larkins is an angel investor who generally invests $25K - $50K in young, emerging companies with a focus on the areas of marketing services / technology or consumer internet. He is geography and stage agnostic. Larkins aims to assist portfolio companies through efforts and expertise focused on operations and management and also assists with access to his network, recruitment, scaling, business development and corporate strategy. Stuart is an experienced professional in the services industry. He has spent the last eight years at Performics, an internet start up, leading the business through rapid growth and strategic acquisitions by DoubleClick, Hellman & Freeman, and most recently, Google. Before joining DoubleClick Performics, Stuart served as Operations Manager for Penske Truck Leasing, a GE Capital Company. Prior to his operations management role, Stuart functioned as a Project Manager and served as a Black Belt during the initial wave of GE's Six-Sigma Initiative. He began his career as a Special Aide to U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham. Stuart holds a BS in Economics from Southern Methodist University.
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Latest Stuart Larkins News
Jun 18, 2013
By FinSMEs Chicago Ventures (formerly known as the i2A Fund II), a fund focused on early-stage technology companies based in Chicago and the Greater Midwest, raised $40m. Investors included JB Pritzker, Pat Ryan, Jr. and The Duchossois Group as well the fund’s partners Stuart Larkins and Kevin Willer. Led by newly named Kevin Willer and Stuart Larkins and new senior associates Ezra Galston and Jason Duboe, Chicago Ventures has a portfolio of 15 companies including Betterfly, Blitsy, FoodGenius, Healthfinch, Kapow Events, Pangea, Picturelife, Power2Switch, Retrofit, Shiftgig, SimpleRelevance, and UpCity, plus two companies which will be announced soon. It recently exited Cartavi, a document sharing platform for real estate professionals, which was acquired by San Francisco-based DocuSign (read here ). FinSMEs
Stuart Larkins Investments
9 Investments
Stuart Larkins has made 9 investments. Their latest investment was in Perfect Audience as part of their Unattributed VC on October 10, 2012.
Stuart Larkins Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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10/4/2012 | Unattributed VC | Perfect Audience | $1.1M | Yes | ||
3/19/2012 | Angel | |||||
2/2/2012 | Seed VC | |||||
10/18/2011 | Series A | |||||
6/16/2011 | Series A |
Date | 10/4/2012 | 3/19/2012 | 2/2/2012 | 10/18/2011 | 6/16/2011 |
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Round | Unattributed VC | Angel | Seed VC | Series A | Series A |
Company | Perfect Audience | ||||
Amount | $1.1M | ||||
New? | Yes | ||||
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Stuart Larkins Portfolio Exits
2 Portfolio Exits
Stuart Larkins has 2 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Boost Media on April 24, 2019.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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4/24/2019 | Acquired | 1 | |||
Date | 4/24/2019 | |
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Exit | Acquired | |
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Sources | 1 |
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