Eric Duboe

Partner at Chicago Ventures

📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 10 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Observer
Aug 2026
AI has made faces, voices, accounts, and entire interactions easy to fake. Helix is rebuilding the trust layer of the internet: giving banks, marketplaces, communication platforms, and digital services a fast, privacy-first way to know there is a verified human on the other end. Helix uses a short, randomized voice challenge to confirm a live, unique, account-bound human in about two seconds with 99%+ accuracy. The challenge is designed to resist replay, cloned voices, and deepfake injection. Processing happens on the user’s device, with no additional app, SMS code, ID upload, selfie, or stored voice recording. Unlike identity checks that prove someone once at signup, Helix can be invoked throughout the digital relationship—before a call, message, transaction, account recovery, age-gated action, prescription, or other high-trust event. It integrates with existing identity, fraud, and trust-and-safety systems to route humans and bots in real time through one signal: human, unique, authenticated. Helix is built by operators whose prior platforms blocked more than 100 billion bot attempts, protected over $50 billion in ticket sales, and helped power more than 97 billion matches worldwide.
Board Member
Mar 2026
VitalCare is a Medtech service company that focuses on bridging the gap between providers and patients. Through our cutting-edge Telehealth platform, providers are connected with patients in seconds, and delivering quality care.
Board Member
Mar 2026
Introducing ProVision, your digital side letter management solution. Visit our website to find out more.
Board Observer
Sep 2025
Annie is an AI powered front desk receptionist for dentists. Fully integrated into your office and practice management software, Annie can answer FAQs, schedule appointments, and ensure that you never miss a patient again.
Board Observer
Feb 2025
Law firms have long struggled with having clean, accurate, and readily available data at their fingertips. Beyond some flavor of financial warehouse, firms have increasingly been challenged with having faster, easier access to all its data. With greater client demands, competition, and stress on firm leadership to manage less on gut intuition, being a data-driven law firm has become a strategic imperative. Leveraging his 25+ years in the legal industry as CIO/CKO at Sheppard Mullin, Cadwalader and Reed Smith alongside consulting for 7 years to many of the top firms in the globe, Tom Baldwin has become an expert on law firm data.  In his 7 years of consulting he started a data practice and led data strategy engagements, management/executive committee dashboard design and data lake envisioning efforts at many Am Law 200 firms.  These experiences sharpened his views on the challenges law firms face with data and how to solve them, but there was no easy answer.   We realized there needed to be a product on the market to help firms solve this problem. Firms had to spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars on out-of-industry data people who needed years to figure things out, only to realize that there was no tangible outcome in sight. Or buy a narrowly focused, fit-for-purpose, data solution that may solve one need but not provide a holistic view of all their data – integrated in a safe, secure way and provide simple and easy dashboards for lawyers and business professionals. Until now.
Investor
Dec 2024
Model benchmarks are seriously lacking. With Vals AI, we report how language models perform on the industry-specific tasks where they will be used.
Board Observer
May 2024
GoodShip is the first all-in-one platform for freight orchestration and procurement. Our innovative software helps shippers optimize their freight spend and service outcomes, while enhancing collaboration among internal teams and carrier partners. Our platform brings together disparate data sources (e.g., tender data, real-time location, contract awards, market benchmarks) to offer shippers a comprehensive view of their transportation network. With our advanced recommendation engine, users can identify the highest impact opportunities to save money, improve on-time service, and reduce reliance on the spot market. More than just analytics, GoodShip provides actionable insights directly within the platform. Transportation teams can easily take corrective actions, such as renegotiating contract rates, initiating performance alerts, or running off-cycle and network-wide bids with best-in-class, purpose-built procurement tools. These capabilities give shippers the agility and resilience to optimize their networks amidst volatile market conditions and shifting carrier performance.
Board Observer
2017
Visibly is a Chicago-based healthcare technology company founded in 2012, building digital vision care solutions that enable patient choice and provider capacity. Online vision testing is just the start; Visibly envisions a world where technology enables patients and doctors to connect easily and make other aspects of vision care more convenient and accessible to everyone. We launched the first online refractive eye test that delivers a physician-issued prescription for glasses or contact lenses and we are the first FDA-cleared online visual acuity test on the US market.
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2026
Board Observer
Aug 2026
AI has made faces, voices, accounts, and entire interactions easy to fake. Helix is rebuilding the trust layer of the internet: giving banks, marketplaces, communication platforms, and digital services a fast, privacy-first way to know there is a verified human on the other end. Helix uses a short, randomized voice challenge to confirm a live, unique, account-bound human in about two seconds with 99%+ accuracy. The challenge is designed to resist replay, cloned voices, and deepfake injection. Processing happens on the user’s device, with no additional app, SMS code, ID upload, selfie, or stored voice recording. Unlike identity checks that prove someone once at signup, Helix can be invoked throughout the digital relationship—before a call, message, transaction, account recovery, age-gated action, prescription, or other high-trust event. It integrates with existing identity, fraud, and trust-and-safety systems to route humans and bots in real time through one signal: human, unique, authenticated. Helix is built by operators whose prior platforms blocked more than 100 billion bot attempts, protected over $50 billion in ticket sales, and helped power more than 97 billion matches worldwide.
Board Member
Mar 2026
VitalCare is a Medtech service company that focuses on bridging the gap between providers and patients. Through our cutting-edge Telehealth platform, providers are connected with patients in seconds, and delivering quality care.
Board Member
Mar 2026
Introducing ProVision, your digital side letter management solution. Visit our website to find out more.
2025
Board Observer
Sep 2025
Annie is an AI powered front desk receptionist for dentists. Fully integrated into your office and practice management software, Annie can answer FAQs, schedule appointments, and ensure that you never miss a patient again.
Board Observer
Feb 2025
Law firms have long struggled with having clean, accurate, and readily available data at their fingertips. Beyond some flavor of financial warehouse, firms have increasingly been challenged with having faster, easier access to all its data. With greater client demands, competition, and stress on firm leadership to manage less on gut intuition, being a data-driven law firm has become a strategic imperative. Leveraging his 25+ years in the legal industry as CIO/CKO at Sheppard Mullin, Cadwalader and Reed Smith alongside consulting for 7 years to many of the top firms in the globe, Tom Baldwin has become an expert on law firm data.  In his 7 years of consulting he started a data practice and led data strategy engagements, management/executive committee dashboard design and data lake envisioning efforts at many Am Law 200 firms.  These experiences sharpened his views on the challenges law firms face with data and how to solve them, but there was no easy answer.   We realized there needed to be a product on the market to help firms solve this problem. Firms had to spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars on out-of-industry data people who needed years to figure things out, only to realize that there was no tangible outcome in sight. Or buy a narrowly focused, fit-for-purpose, data solution that may solve one need but not provide a holistic view of all their data – integrated in a safe, secure way and provide simple and easy dashboards for lawyers and business professionals. Until now.
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