Rob Chesney

Partner, Chicago Ventures
Rob Chesney is an operator-turned-investor whose eBay Motors (VP/GM) and Trunk Club (COO) leadership and board roles at marketplaces like TaskRabbit and Cameo inform his hands-on, team-building approach in Chicago.
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About Rob Chesney

Rob Chesney built his career as an operator before becoming an investor, running eBay Motors as VP/GM, serving as COO of Trunk Club, and sitting on boards like TaskRabbit, Cameo, MAX, and LandscapeHub—companies built around matching buyers and sellers or simplifying how people do business. Born and raised in Toronto before earning degrees at McGill and Kellogg, he brought that hands-on operating experience to Chicago, where he's known for helping build consumer companies like Cameo and for hiring people who make a team better, not just people who fit in.

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Chicago Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund founded to fill a market gap in early-stage capital for tech companies outside traditional hubs like Silicon Valley, focusing on undercapitalized tech ecosystems in the Central U.S. and beyond. They lead seed rounds "before it's obvious" and operate a formal platform function that serves as a direct extension of portfolio companies' teams, with their network explicitly architected to provide customer introductions, expert help, and talent access at scale rather than just for sourcing deals.

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