Ceres Venture Fund

Ceres Venture Fund is a Chicago-based venture capital firm that focuses on early stage high growth companies located in the Midwest. Founded 2005 in Evanston, Illinois, United States, this venture capital firm funds early stage ventures. It usually funds Series A ventures. Its portfolio companies include CS-Keys (a biotechnology company discovers and develops cancer-associated biomarkers using proteomics) and TrafficCast ( a company that provides technology and data analysis for real-time and predictive traffic information for location-based navigation services). The company invested $6.3M in CS-Keys and $3.5M in TrafficCast.

The company focuses on companies in the health care, information technology, and business sectors.