About Chart Venture Partners
Chart Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1994. It is primarily based out of New York City, United States. As of Apr 2015, Chart Venture Partners has invested in 14 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from High Tech to Enterprise Infrastructure and EdTech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series B round of IntegriCo Overall, Chart Venture Partners portfolio has seen 7 acquisitions including key companies like Pacific Star Communications, CoolIT Systems and GeoIQ. A lot of funds co-invest with Chart Venture Partners, with names like Clark Enterprises sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Chart Venture Partners has team of 2 people.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series A, Series B & 2 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
Chart Venture Partners' List of Top Investments
Chart Venture Partners has a portfolio of 14 companies. Their most notable investments are in Innovative Biosensors and IntegriCo.Their portfolio spans across United States and Canada. They have invested in High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure, EdTech and 12 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Series B and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Chart Venture Partners:Pacific Star Communications is a network security solutions provider. It provides a technology-based system integrator that provides communications solutions to military, government and commercial sectors. The IQ-Core Software and hardware technology and integration provide secure, command, control, and communications systems.
Key facts about Pacific Star Communications
- Founded Year: 2000
- Location: Portland (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $27.4M
- Employee Count: 126 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Benaroya, Steelpoint Capital and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Manufacturer of liquid cooling systems for data centers and servers. The company provides coolant distribution units and technology cooling systems. It offers direct liquid cooled servers and server products. Capabilities include design engineering, testing, validation, and manufacturing. The company focuses on liquid cooling research and development.
Key facts about CoolIT Systems
- Founded Year: 2001
- Location: Calgary (Canada)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $6.48M
- Employee Count: 137 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Vistara Growth, Inovia Capital and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Mar 04, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. AustinPx
Key facts about AustinPx
- Founded Year: 2007
- Location: Georgetown (United States)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $57.4M
- Employee Count: 51 - 200 as on Jul 17, 2025
- Investors: Acadia Woods, Chart Venture Partners and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Oct 05, 2020, $*****
4. GeoIQ
GeoIQ enables enterprises, marketers, retailers and public sector organizations to store large amounts of information from numerous data sources, analyze it using location as the common pivot point and identify trends and opportunities to drive better business decisions. Qlarion, ABC Tv Network, Unicef are among its customers. It was acquired by Esri in 2012.
Key facts about GeoIQ
- Founded Year: 2005
- Location: Arlington (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $10.9M
- Investors: New Markets Venture Partners, In-Q-Tel and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jul 22, 2010, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. WiSpry
Wispry is a United States based fabless semiconductor company developing technologies for wireless market. Wispry has successfully achieved convergence of digital, analog, and RF functionality on a single chip by integrating MEMS devices with industry standard RF-CMOS process flows. Wispry technology finds application in consumer electronics products like mobiles, tablets, UMDs, MIDs etc in addition to defense and security usage. Wispry in association with Skytek released worlds first MEMS-Tuned UHF RFID Antenna.
Key facts about WiSpry
- Founded Year: 2002
- Location: Irvine (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $79.8M
- Employee Count: 1 as on Dec 31, 2024
- Investors: Western Technology Investment, Blueprint Ventures and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Jun 30, 2014, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
Chart Venture Partners' Investments by Stage
Chart Venture Partners has made 6 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $5.8M, 4 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $8.61M, 1 investment in Series C stage with an average round size of $10M and 1 investment in Series D stage with an average round size of $12.3M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 6 |
Series B | 4 |
Series C | 1 |
Series D | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Chart Venture Partners' Investments by Sector
Chart Venture Partners has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, AR VR - Industry Applications and Consumer. Notably, it has invested in 9 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 8 Tech companies, 3 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 3 companies focusing on Software.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
High Tech | 4 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 3 |
Enterprise Applications | 2 |
AR VR - Industry Applications | 1 |
Consumer | 1 |
Others | 11 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Chart Venture Partners' Investments by Geography
Chart Venture Partners has made most investments in United States (11), followed by Canada where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 11 |
Canada | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Chart Venture Partners' recent investments
Chart Venture Partners has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Chart Venture Partners:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Apr 03, 2015 | United States | Series B | 7241 | [+1] | |
Nov 10, 2013 | United States | Series A | 6954 | [+1] | |
Mar 14, 2012 | United States | Series B | 6447 | - | |
Dec 27, 2011 | United States | Series C | 6179 | ||
Nov 02, 2011 | United States | Series A | 1896 | [+1] |
Acquired companies in Chart Venture Partners' Portfolio
7 companies from Chart Venture Partners' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were CoolIT Systems in May 2023 by KKR.Here are Chart Venture Partners' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
May 02, 2023 | Sep 09, 2011 | Series B | 7982 | |
Sep 24, 2020 | Jul 17, 2007 | Series D | 8634 | |
Jan 29, 2016 | May 04, 2011 | Series A | 1456 | |
May 11, 2015 | Apr 07, 2009 | Series C | 7833 | |
Jan 02, 2014 | Sep 29, 2006 | Series A | 4099 |
Team profile of Chart Venture Partners
Chart Venture Partners has a team of 2 members.Co-investors of Chart Venture Partners
Over the past 20 years, 49 investors have co-invested in Chart Venture Partners's portfolio companies. This includes only funds.
- Invested before Chart Venture Partners: Fluke Venture Partners, InvestAmerica Venture Group and 16 others have invested in rounds before Chart Venture Partners. There is 1 company where Fluke Venture Partners has invested before Chart Venture Partners and 1 company where InvestAmerica Venture Group has invested before Chart Venture Partners.
- Top Co-investors of Chart Venture Partners: 19 investors entered a company along with Chart Venture Partners. These include investors like Clark Enterprises (3 companies).
- Invested after Chart Venture Partners: A total of 12 investors have invested in Chart Venture Partners's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Endeavour (1 company), BDC (1 company) and nVent (1 company).
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IntegriCo Composites Raises $11 million to Continue Explosive Growth in the Railroad Industry and Build Manufacturing PlantIntegriCo•Mar 31, 2015•IntegriCo, JHWhitney, Chart Venture Partners, Ironbridge International
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Backed By $10 Million, Flyby Messenger Is The First Consumer App To Use Image Recognition Tech From Google’s “Project Tango” – TechCrunchTechCrunch+•Feb 28, 2014•Flyby Media, Chart Venture Partners, Clark Enterprises, Robert Bosch Venture Capital
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Ogmento First AR Gaming Startup To Win VC Funding – TechCrunchTechCrunch+•May 26, 2010•Ogmento, Chart Venture Partners, Clark Enterprises
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Nextreme Raises $13 Million in Series B Financing | Business WireBusiness Wire•Aug 06, 2008•Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Chart Venture Partners, Red Shift Ventures, RTI International and 4 others
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PacStar Secures $12.3 Million in Series D FinancingPR Newswire•Jul 17, 2007•Pacific Star Communications, Chart Venture Partners, Steelpoint Capital, Fluke Venture Partners and 2 others
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PacStar Secures $12.3 Million in Series D Financing - PacStarPacific Star Communications•Jul 17, 2007•Pacific Star Communications, Chart Venture Partners, Steelpoint Capital, Fluke Venture Partners and 2 others
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RemoteReality receives $7.3 million in VC fundingHomeland Security News Wire•Dec 18, 2006•RemoteReality, Battelle Ventures, Chart Venture Partners
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Twisted Pair Solutions, Inc. Secures $9 Million in Series a Funding from Ignition Partners, Core Capital Partners and Chart Venture Partners | Business WireBusiness Wire•Sep 29, 2006•Twisted Pair Solutions, Chart Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, Ignition Partners
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A Round with an Additional $500,000 in FundingPR Newswire•May 08, 2006•StackSafe, Chart Venture Partners, Novak Biddle Venture Partners
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