Chris Girgenti

Managing Partner at Pritzker Group Venture Capital

📍 Evanston, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 23 investments📅 29 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
23
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11
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29y
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Board Observer
Apr 2024
Machinery Partner helps buyers and sellers of heavy equipment to grow faster and easier with the technology and industry expertise to match their needs.
Board Observer
Feb 2024
Fuel Me is the AI-powered fuel management platform built to simplify and optimize every part of your fuel operations. From competitive sourcing with our AI-powered RFP engine to cost control through automated fuel auditing, we help businesses streamline procurement, reduce spend, and centralize operations across all locations. Whether youre managing a few sites or hundreds of locations nationwide, Fuel Me delivers scalable solutions with real-time insights, vendor management, predictive ordering, and 24/7 support. From construction and transportation to mission-critical industries like data centers, Fuel Me empowers your team with the tools to gain control over fuel spend, ensure supply reliability, and drive smarter operations. Fuel Me goes beyond fuel management—it delivers total control.
Board Observer
Dec 2023
Lessen makes caring for, and improving real estate properties simpler, faster, and better through best-in-class, fully outsourced, and on-demand property services. For commercial and residential properties, we deliver faster renovations and turns, hassle-free maintenance, reduced issues through preventive maintenance, and capital projects that are on time and on budget, all while improving the experience of tenants/residents. 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 Our customers include distributed real-estate portfolio owners and managers in both commercial and residential markets. In commercial markets, we serve distributed properties such as commercial banks, healthcare, retail, grocery, REITs, telecommunications, logistics, and industrial businesses. Our residential customers include owners/operators of single-family home portfolios, multi-family units, home builders, and warranty providers. 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 -- 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 Lessens technology suite, One by Lessen™ connects clients with property owners and our network of over 30,000 vendors in over 55 trades. One by Lessen helps clients manage work orders, streamline processes, and control costs. It enables improved communications through user-friendly mobile apps for operations, tenants/residents, and vendors that shorten repair times, and optimize projects. Lessens professional field project managers offer boots-on-the-ground services and streamlined processes that leverage Lessen’s network of service professionals in over 100 markets nationally. We help our customers overcome labor shortages, reduce headcount and overhead, and grow and scale their businesses. Both clients and vendor affiliates also benefit from our supply chain and buying power to secure project materials at lower costs. Lessen LLC is a venture-backed, privately held company with offices in Scottsdale and Chicago. To learn more, please visit http://www.lessen.com.
mid stageReal Estate
Board Member
May 2020
Specright is the first purpose-built platform for Specification Data Management™. Whether it’s packaging, raw materials, formulas, products, or machines, Specright helps companies digitize, map, and take action across their supply chain to reduce costs, increase profitability, and drive sustainability. Our customers operate in agriculture, automotive, cosmetics, food & beverage, manufacturing, FMCG/CPG, medical, or any industry reliant on accurate specifications. Founded in late 2014, Specright is privately held and headquartered in Irvine, California.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Augmentir™ is the world’s only provider of AI-based connected worker software. Augmentir’s software platform is a suite of AI-powered connected worker tools that helps industrial companies optimize the safety, quality, and productivity of today’s rapidly changing industrial frontline workforce. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage Augmentir’s AI in conjunction with the platform’s digital workflow and remote collaboration capabilities to optimize their frontline operations and deliver significant growth and continuous improvement in the areas of performance support, training, and workforce development.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
FreightWaves is the most trusted provider of global supply chain market intelligence. Our high-frequency price, demand, and capacity data and analysis allow our customers to benchmark, analyze, monitor and forecast the global physical economy.
Board Member
Sep 2018
Plus One supports the mission of ‘always-on’ logistics. We mitigate the persistent shortage of manual labor and allow your personnel to flow from monotonous tasks to higher value work. Through the implementation of high performance manipulators with advanced vision capabilities, Plus One robots bridge the gap between steady state volume and surge. Plus One’s novel approach to human/robot collaboration and Supervised Autonomy ensures the systems are scalable, flexible, and fault tolerant. Plus One – Robots work. People rule.
Board Member
Aug 2018
Apprentice’s Tempo Manufacturing Cloud is the first AI-powered cloud platform for batch-based manufacturing. Tempo connects your teams, systems, sites, and external partners across one cloud-based platform to provide seamless processing through every layer of your manufacturing ecosystem. By combining historically distributed systems — Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Distributed Control System (DCS), Laboratory Execution System (LES), eLogs, Work Instructions, Tempo optimizes end-to-end manufacturing processes. AI is embedded in every step of the process, driving innovation from design to creation, through to simulation and execution, delivering the power of the next generation of manufacturing technology, today. To learn more about Apprentice, visit www.apprentice.io
Board Observer
Aug 2018
Apprentice’s Tempo Manufacturing Cloud is the first AI-powered cloud platform for batch-based manufacturing. Tempo connects your teams, systems, sites, and external partners across one cloud-based platform to provide seamless processing through every layer of your manufacturing ecosystem. By combining historically distributed systems — Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Distributed Control System (DCS), Laboratory Execution System (LES), eLogs, Work Instructions, Tempo optimizes end-to-end manufacturing processes. AI is embedded in every step of the process, driving innovation from design to creation, through to simulation and execution, delivering the power of the next generation of manufacturing technology, today. To learn more about Apprentice, visit www.apprentice.io
Board Observer
Jan 2018
Ocient is a data analytics software solutions company that enables compute-intensive analysis of large, complex datasets while optimizing for performance, cost, and energy efficiency. Ocient brings data transformation, loading, complex query processing, AI, OcientML® and OcientGeo® into a single, consolidated solution for deeper insights and data-driven decision-making. Enterprises can deploy Ocient’s pilot-to-production solutions on premises, in the OcientCloud™ or the public cloud, with little to no resource-intensive integration. Ocient is a global, remote-first, carbon-neutral company, headquartered in Chicago, and backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel and Buoyant Ventures. If youre interested in joining a team making data more efficient at scale, email us at: recruiting@ocient.com
Former Board Member
Jan 2015
For three decades, IE has carefully crafted a practical, street-smart culture by hiring industry experts that bring deep knowledge and experience. We thrive by offering unparalleled service – taking care of one customer at a time. This makes us the “easy button” for which our customers rely to simplify their complex electrical, process, and automation needs. Collectively, our team has over 300 years of experience working as field operators. This allows us to be more of a partner than vendor. Our goal is to create lasting relationships that is what makes us special. Lastly, we take pride in the fact that our products are made in the USA. We have grown the business without institutional investors or external sources of capital/debt. Instead, we focus on investments which improve the experience for our customers, employees, and partners.
Former Board Observer
Dec 2014
Cloud Technology Partners (CTP), a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the premier cloud services and software company for enterprises moving to AWS, Google, Microsoft and other leading cloud platforms. From strategy to operations, CTP accelerates end-to-end cloud adoption with the best implementation services, software and intellectual property available on the market. CTP’s comprehensive framework for cloud adoption and dedicated software development capabilities help clients achieve business results faster, no matter where they are in their cloud transformation. Learn more at www.cloudtp.com
Investor, Former Board Member
Jun 2014
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed’s one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale and provide exceptional customer experiences.
Former Board Member
May 2012
IO is now Iron Mountain. Together, we offer customers a global data center portfolio that includes 11 domestic and international colocation facilities, 900 customers, and more than two million gross square feet. Iron Mountain Data Centers, a division of Iron Mountain Incorporated, is a leading provider of wholesale data center and colocation services. The company’s national portfolio of underground and purpose-built data centers addresses the exacting requirements of highly regulated organizations such as Federal Government agencies, Fortune 1000 enterprises, healthcare and life sciences organizations, financial services companies and cloud services providers. Iron Mountain data center services include dedicated data centers, private data center suites, secure cages, individual cabinets, helping hands remote support, and carrier-neutral network services. For more than 30 years, discerning colocation customers continue to choose Iron Mountain data center services for the company’s proven track record, successful relationships, maximum efficiency, predictable results and established a reputation as the safe choice. Visit www.ironmountain.com/data-centers for more information.
Former Board Observer
Nov 2010
Fleetmatics Group PLC is a leading global provider of mobile workforce solutions for service-based businesses of all sizes delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS). Our solutions enable businesses to meet the challenges associated with managing local fleets and improve the productivity of their mobile workforces by extracting actionable business intelligence from real-time and historical vehicle and driver behavior data. Fleetmatics’ intuitive, cost-effective web-based software and native mobile applications provide fleet operators with visibility into vehicle location, fuel usage, speed, mileage and other valuable insights into their mobile workforce. Putting our customers’ just one click away from actionable results allows them to make quick decisions to help reduce operating and capital costs as well as increase revenue. Currently, we serve approximately 42,000 fleet management customers with approximately 826,000 subscribed vehicles worldwide. Fleetmatics has used, and intends to continue to use, the investor relations portions of its website as a means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with disclosures obligations under Regulation FD. To learn more about Fleetmatics, visit www.fleetmatics.com.
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2024
Board Observer
Apr 2024
Machinery Partner helps buyers and sellers of heavy equipment to grow faster and easier with the technology and industry expertise to match their needs.
Board Observer
Feb 2024
Fuel Me is the AI-powered fuel management platform built to simplify and optimize every part of your fuel operations. From competitive sourcing with our AI-powered RFP engine to cost control through automated fuel auditing, we help businesses streamline procurement, reduce spend, and centralize operations across all locations. Whether youre managing a few sites or hundreds of locations nationwide, Fuel Me delivers scalable solutions with real-time insights, vendor management, predictive ordering, and 24/7 support. From construction and transportation to mission-critical industries like data centers, Fuel Me empowers your team with the tools to gain control over fuel spend, ensure supply reliability, and drive smarter operations. Fuel Me goes beyond fuel management—it delivers total control.
2023
Board Observer
Dec 2023
Lessen makes caring for, and improving real estate properties simpler, faster, and better through best-in-class, fully outsourced, and on-demand property services. For commercial and residential properties, we deliver faster renovations and turns, hassle-free maintenance, reduced issues through preventive maintenance, and capital projects that are on time and on budget, all while improving the experience of tenants/residents. 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 Our customers include distributed real-estate portfolio owners and managers in both commercial and residential markets. In commercial markets, we serve distributed properties such as commercial banks, healthcare, retail, grocery, REITs, telecommunications, logistics, and industrial businesses. Our residential customers include owners/operators of single-family home portfolios, multi-family units, home builders, and warranty providers. 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 -- 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 Lessens technology suite, One by Lessen™ connects clients with property owners and our network of over 30,000 vendors in over 55 trades. One by Lessen helps clients manage work orders, streamline processes, and control costs. It enables improved communications through user-friendly mobile apps for operations, tenants/residents, and vendors that shorten repair times, and optimize projects. Lessens professional field project managers offer boots-on-the-ground services and streamlined processes that leverage Lessen’s network of service professionals in over 100 markets nationally. We help our customers overcome labor shortages, reduce headcount and overhead, and grow and scale their businesses. Both clients and vendor affiliates also benefit from our supply chain and buying power to secure project materials at lower costs. Lessen LLC is a venture-backed, privately held company with offices in Scottsdale and Chicago. To learn more, please visit http://www.lessen.com.
mid stageReal Estate
2020
Board Member
May 2020
Specright is the first purpose-built platform for Specification Data Management™. Whether it’s packaging, raw materials, formulas, products, or machines, Specright helps companies digitize, map, and take action across their supply chain to reduce costs, increase profitability, and drive sustainability. Our customers operate in agriculture, automotive, cosmetics, food & beverage, manufacturing, FMCG/CPG, medical, or any industry reliant on accurate specifications. Founded in late 2014, Specright is privately held and headquartered in Irvine, California.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Augmentir™ is the world’s only provider of AI-based connected worker software. Augmentir’s software platform is a suite of AI-powered connected worker tools that helps industrial companies optimize the safety, quality, and productivity of today’s rapidly changing industrial frontline workforce. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage Augmentir’s AI in conjunction with the platform’s digital workflow and remote collaboration capabilities to optimize their frontline operations and deliver significant growth and continuous improvement in the areas of performance support, training, and workforce development.
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