Starting Line portfolio

Starting Line has 2 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: startingline.vc.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 2.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, US, founded in 2018. By category, its portfolio leans toward Consumer and social (1) and Media and content (1).

About Starting Line

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Chicago, US.

Founded: 2018.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed.

Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Direct to Consumer, Fintech, Healthtech, Marketplaces, Wellness & Fitness.

Check size: $750K to $2M.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 62.

Exits: 1.

Rounds led: 2.

Funds raised

Fund	Fund #	Size	Announced
SStarting Line Chicago	II	$30Mvia Shai Goldman's fund list	Apr 12, 2021

What Starting Line invests in

Consumer and social · 1 · 50%
Media and content · 1 · 50%
Lending and credit · 1 · 50%
Crypto payments · 1 · 50%
DAOs and governance · 1 · 50%

Starting Line portfolio companies

AAgentiobacker
UUnchainedbacker

Company	Round with Starting Line	Total raised	Latest raise
AAgentio Consumer and social	backer	$56.25M	Nov 18, 2025 Series B+
UUnchained Lending and credit	backer	$60M	Jun 24, 2026 Pre-seed

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Consumer and social).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Venture funds Starting Line raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Starting Line, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/starting-line (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.