Stages:

• Early
• Growth
• Seed

 

Industries:

Information Technology

Life Sciences & Healthcare

Manufacturing & Industrial

 

Description:

City Side Ventures is an operations-oriented investment group committed to fund and grow tech-based startups and middle-market companies through a high-impact invest-and-build strategy. Founded in 2015 in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the firm is focused on creating equity investment relationships in promising Michigan companies through all its various funds: Angel Funding - 'Crawling' (pre-seed capital); Venture Capital - 'Walking' (seed to series D capital); Private Equity - 'Running' (Growth Capital). Investment funds include Great Lakes Angels Fund, an early-stage, equity-based investment fund that was created to seed and grow early-stage tech-based companies. The fund will make a capital investment of up to $1.0M per deal for qualified startups. Venture248 is an equity-based Venture Capital Fund that was created to fund and grow second-stage, Michigan-based technology companies. The purpose of the fund is to help grow the Michigan tech startup ecosystem. The fund will match the founder(s) capital investment of up to $1M in mix resources per deal for qualified startups. Blue Venture is a Michigan-based venture capital fund established to invest in fast-growing, scalable, and post-revenue tech companies located in the U.S. and North America. The purpose of the Blue Venture Fund is to grow the North American startup ecosystem and will provide capital investments of up to $5M per deal to qualified and approved companies. City[X] Capital is a Michigan-based limited partners Private Equity Fund that was established to invest in fast-growing, scalable tech companies located in the US and North America and Fund to Fund Investments. The purpose of City[X] Fund is to grow the North American tech startup ecosystem and will provide capital investments of up to $10M per deal to qualified companies. The firm has invested in 42 startups.