Founder & Managing Director, Lofty Ventures; Re-founder and Board Director, teaBOT - Lofty Ventures
Christopher Deutsch is a Chicago angel investor and the founder and managing director of Lofty Ventures, which invests USD 10k-100k as early as possible, usually first-cheque to seed, in Chicago-based startups or startups with strong Chicago ties. He describes himself as industry agnostic. He is Re-founder and Board Director of teaBOT, a Y Combinator-backed tea-making robotics company whose customers include Google, HubSpot, McKinsey and 1871, and earlier spent four years as VP of Business Development at Loft Development Corporation, his family's Chicago commercial real estate firm. Lofty's disclosed portfolio has included Turbo Appeal, teaBOT, Popular Pays, Tovala, Cubii, L Street Collaborative, Blitsy, Pixit, 4Degrees, Paladin, Winston Privacy and Gather Voices, with the firm's site reporting 88 startups backed and a majority led by underrepresented founders. He received his BA in Economics from Vassar College and is an LP in the social venture fund Impact Engine (IV).
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