Stage FocusSeed, Series A
GeographyUS
TypeVC
Last Activity2026
Industry Focus
Industries
BiotechMedtechAIAdvanced ManufacturingAdvanced Materials
Technical BenchStrong
Investor TypeDeepTech Purist
ExposureMostly DeepTech Investments
Bio
Portal Innovations is a venture development platform based in Chicago that invests in biotech and medtech startups from seed to Series A, led by Founder & CEO John Flavin, who previously built Advanced Life Sciences, Chicago Innovation Mentors, MATTER and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago and co-founded Pyxis Oncology. The firm pairs seed capital wi...
Notable Investments
A
ARase TherapeuticsC
CardiosenseC
ClostraBioC
CrossBridge BioD
Dimension BioG
Grove BiopharmaI
Iterion TherapeuticsM
March BiosciencesM
Moonlight TherapeuticsP
Pelagos PharmaceuticalsR
ReAx BiotechnologiesSimilar Funds
IV
Illinois Ventures
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Pure DeepTechBiotechAIQuantumPre-SeedSeed
NV
Navigare Ventures
Stockholm, Sweden
Pure DeepTechBiotechSemiconductorsAdvanced MaterialsSeedSeries A
ARCH Venture Partners
Chicago, United States
Pure DeepTechBiotechMedtechSynthetic BiologySeedSeries A
Bold Capital Partners
Santa Monica, United States
Pure DeepTechBiotechAIMedtechSeedSeries A
BO
Break Off Capital
London, United Kingdom
Pure DeepTechBiotechQuantumSpaceSeedSeries A
C
Compound
New York, United States
DeepTech NativeBiotechAIRoboticsPre-SeedSeed