Chris Shonk

Multi-exit founder, corp dev exec, alts manager and capital allocator.

📍 Austin, Texas, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 40 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
40
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25
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5
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2
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19y
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Apr 2025
Rendezvous Robotics builds space infrastructure using modular, autonomous systems that assemble in orbit. Its patented TESSERAE technology enables scalable, reconfigurable, and resilient infrastructure in space — serving national security, commercial and civil markets.
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Jan 2024
Light Frame is a Swiss American financial technology company building advanced technologies for private banks, wealth management firms, and banks offering investment and wealth services. The company was founded in January 2024 by Schuyler Weiss, Mathieu Clement, Philippe Kernevez, and Gregory Bataille, and it maintains offices in Providence, RI and Lausanne, VD. Light Frame completed its Pre-seed round of financing in April 2024, with ATX Venture Partners and New Stack Ventures co-leading the round. Other investors include Rogue Venture Partners, Halfcourt Ventures, Studio Alpha, and Underdog Labs.
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Nov 2022
Living Realms is a creating a new entertainment experience to enable family and friends to share collaborative storytelling and roleplaying adventures together. We strive to create treasured experiences among family, friends and dragons.
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Sep 2022
Autonomize AI Agents & Copilots organize, contextualize and summarize unstructured data to reduce the administrative burden for healthcare knowledge workers to make data-driven decisions and improve patient outcomes. Our customers include health plans, providers and life sciences companies. Unlike generic AI systems retrofitted for healthcare, Autonomize deeply understands medical contexts, terminologies, and operational nuances. Our healthcare-focused AI Agents & Copilots augment knowledge work, drastically reducing administrative burden. Care management teams spend 78% less time per case, achieving an impressive 85% boost in case review efficiency. Prior authorization processes that traditionally take 20-30 minutes shrink to mere seconds, accompanied by an 80% reduction in manual errors, saving millions of dollars annually. Our AI Agents turn chaotic, unstructured healthcare data—clinical notes, PDFs, faxes, and claims—into structured, contextual information that informs decisions and actions. This has driven substantial real-world impact: organizations using Autonomize experience a 92% reduction in manual effort for care gaps and HEDIS chart reviews, dramatically improving compliance and STAR ratings. Autonomize AI is purpose-built for healthcare, transforming healthcare operations one workflow at a time through AI-native solutions that deliver immediate, scalable impact.
Investor & Advisor
May 2022
HomePoint was born out of frustration with the traditional way home maintenance is done. We were tired of paying more when something breaks, rather than considering preventative care measures. Plus, we were tired of companies taking advantage, often using different pricing sheets depending on who answered the door. We believed there had to be a better way - a concierge doctor, but for the home. Our mission is to be our clients trusted partner, ensuring that each homeowner spends their time enjoying their home, not maintaining it. We primarily hire military veterans and live by our core values, putting what’s best for the home and wallet first. Every HomePoint employee is a part owner and incentivized to provide the best long-term care for each home.
Investor & Advisor
May 2022
LUXUS is the only alternative investment platform offering fractional ownership of precious gemstones, high jewelry, and rare watches. Our mission at LUXUS is to empower everyone to invest in luxury assets. We partner with the world's premium brands to unlock fractional ownership in coveted jewelry, ethically sourced precious gems, rare watches, accessories, and more for retail investors around the world. Other investment platforms provided a roadmap for superior user experience and accessibility that we are employing for luxury assets for the first time ever. Our founding team of seasoned executives has deep expertise in FinTech, Investment Management, Sales & Trading, Fashion, and Technology, and we're lucky to be backed by some of the world’s most respected investors.
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Apr 2022
Double A is an immersive, multimedia communication platform that enables users to collaborate through any means— including video, messaging, whiteboarding, polls, and games—making work more productive and fun. This proprietary technology empowers businesses with a build-your-own-metaverse toolkit that can accommodate hundreds of simultaneous user videos and thousands more with audio and messaging. Ease-of-use is prioritized with one-click access from any web-enabled device with no downloads required. Audio controls flex to accommodate everything from a large presentation to small breakout sessions, all in one easy to navigate, customizable environment. The visual data command center offers over 50 unique data points to power strategic planning and inform critical business decisions. This transformative tool infuses curiosity and human connection into sales enablement, business meetings, and customer experiences to improve employee retention, customer acquisition, and overall client satisfaction.
Investor & Advisor
Feb 2022
StellarFi is the first and only credit-builder that reports all bill payments as credit transactions directly to the three major credit bureaus. StellarFi sets out to disrupt and enhance conventional credit reporting standards by allowing its members to pay everyday bills such as rent, utilities, and subscriptions while automatically building their credit. Founded in Austin, Texas, as a public benefit corporation, StellarFi is led by a seasoned team of fintech veterans that have led several companies through acquisitions and IPOs. Since its public launch in July 2022, StellarFi has achieved major accomplishments: Named a Top 100 Startups to Watch in Austin, Future 5 of Austin Tech, and featured in Built In, Yahoo Finance, and USA Today: https://stellarfi.com/press Reached its $2M ARR milestone in 205 days Continually doubling active membership month-over-month Millions of dollars in linked recurring bill volume Named a top “Product of the Day” on Product Hunt Trusted Employer Jobsage.com (4.6 of 5) If you are interested in partnering with StellarFi, head to https://stellarfi.com/affiliate to speak to a member of our team.
Investor & Advisor
Feb 2022
gigaroo enables service industry businesses to boost their profits by transforming how they hire and retain employees.
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2022
LTH is shaking up the travel sector by e-commercing travel through Influencers and content creators. 86% of all travelers choose their next vacation on social media. From there they are spending 10-20 hours of research on multiple websites to build the trip just presented to them. We are taking that point of discovery and making it bookable, allowing influencers to turn followers into customers through a white labeled booking engine. When travel content is the number 1 reason people follow influencers on social media, 15% higher than beauty and fashion, which has made MILLIONAIRES out of influencers we thought it smart to let influencers make some money on the MASSIVE amount of traffic they drive to the multi-trillion dollar travel sector.
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Nov 2021
Loft builds the space infrastructure that lets any company, government or institution harness the benefits of space. We have developed a standardized satellite platform that can be configured to fly any customer mission. With our own hardware and software abstraction layers on top of a commodity satellite bus, our platform is truly turnkey and plug-and-play.
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Nov 2021
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Oct 2021
Nok is unifying the reverse supply chain for major brands. Our suite of facilities, services and software power returns processing, reconciliation, refurbishment, recycling, donation and multi channel resale to maximize brands recovery. Close the loop on circularity with true end-to-end visibility.
Investor & Advisor
Apr 2021
⚡ About Reflex The best retail experiences feel effortless. Behind every interaction is a team that shows up, knows the brand, and makes the customer feel seen. Reflex builds the infrastructure that makes that possible at scale. A living, learning workforce platform that gets more tailored to your brand with every shift. We dont just fill gaps. We protect the customer experience. 👷 For Workers Reflex puts you in rooms where that matters. Find shifts with brands that fit your style, close to home, on your schedule. Every shift you work builds your reputation. Every endorsement makes your next opportunity better. 🛍 For Retailers Every empty shift is a customer who didnt get helped. Reflex makes sure that never happens. On-demand associates, available when you need them for callouts, no-shows, peak seasons, and new store openings. Reflex gets smarter over time. Every shift, every endorsement, every interaction trains future matches. Over time, the Reflexers arriving at your door know your brand voice, your customer, your stores. The future of retail runs on Reflex. https://www.workreflex.com/
early stageRetail
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2020
Assurely creates and distributes insurance for changing industries and innovative companies with a focus on embedded partnerships. Our technology and data-driven platform offers new, custom-built, and traditional insurance products designed to be embedded into marketplaces and SaaS platforms, yet can still be accessed directly by end insurance customers. We serve companies, marketplaces, and platforms in changing and innovative industries, such as Private Securities (FinTech), Real Estate/ Construction/ Property Management (PropTech), Collectibles, Blockchain, among many others. Assurely is the next generation of insurance focused on creating value for each stakeholder in the insurance system.
mid stageInsurance
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2026
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2026
We design, manufacture and market Software Defined Radios and accessories for consumer, government and commercial entities.
2025
Investor & Advisor
Apr 2025
Rendezvous Robotics builds space infrastructure using modular, autonomous systems that assemble in orbit. Its patented TESSERAE technology enables scalable, reconfigurable, and resilient infrastructure in space — serving national security, commercial and civil markets.
2024
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2024
Light Frame is a Swiss American financial technology company building advanced technologies for private banks, wealth management firms, and banks offering investment and wealth services. The company was founded in January 2024 by Schuyler Weiss, Mathieu Clement, Philippe Kernevez, and Gregory Bataille, and it maintains offices in Providence, RI and Lausanne, VD. Light Frame completed its Pre-seed round of financing in April 2024, with ATX Venture Partners and New Stack Ventures co-leading the round. Other investors include Rogue Venture Partners, Halfcourt Ventures, Studio Alpha, and Underdog Labs.
2022
Investor & Advisor
Nov 2022
Living Realms is a creating a new entertainment experience to enable family and friends to share collaborative storytelling and roleplaying adventures together. We strive to create treasured experiences among family, friends and dragons.
Investor & Advisor
Sep 2022
Autonomize AI Agents & Copilots organize, contextualize and summarize unstructured data to reduce the administrative burden for healthcare knowledge workers to make data-driven decisions and improve patient outcomes. Our customers include health plans, providers and life sciences companies. Unlike generic AI systems retrofitted for healthcare, Autonomize deeply understands medical contexts, terminologies, and operational nuances. Our healthcare-focused AI Agents & Copilots augment knowledge work, drastically reducing administrative burden. Care management teams spend 78% less time per case, achieving an impressive 85% boost in case review efficiency. Prior authorization processes that traditionally take 20-30 minutes shrink to mere seconds, accompanied by an 80% reduction in manual errors, saving millions of dollars annually. Our AI Agents turn chaotic, unstructured healthcare data—clinical notes, PDFs, faxes, and claims—into structured, contextual information that informs decisions and actions. This has driven substantial real-world impact: organizations using Autonomize experience a 92% reduction in manual effort for care gaps and HEDIS chart reviews, dramatically improving compliance and STAR ratings. Autonomize AI is purpose-built for healthcare, transforming healthcare operations one workflow at a time through AI-native solutions that deliver immediate, scalable impact.
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