Stuart Larkins

Stuart Larkins is an investor and Managing Partner at Chicago Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to his transition into institutional investing, he served as a key executive on the founding management team at the digital marketing agency Performics. In this operational role, he helped scale the business significantly, leading to its corporate acquisition by DoubleClick in 2004 and its subsequent integration into Google in 2008. Following these acquisitions, he continued to manage search and performance marketing operations before shifting his professional focus entirely to venture capital. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Methodist University, where he completed his undergraduate studies in 1992. Larkins currently focuses on sourcing early-stage technology investments and providing strategic operational guidance to emerging startup founders across the broader Midwest venture capital ecosystem.