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Second Century Ventures

Investor type

PE / VC

Founded

2009

AUM

$2 900 M

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Investment Ticket

$1-5 m

Investment Stage

Seed Series A

Region of investment

North America Asia Australia and others
Investor profile last updated: 25 September, 2025

Profile

Second Century Ventures (SCV), the strategic investment arm of the National Association of REALTORS®, is the most active global real estate technology fund. SCV helps scale its portfolio companies across the world's largest industries including real estate, financial services, banking, home services, and insurance, and operates the award-winning global REACH technology scale-up program.

SCV manages the award-winning REACH scale-up program with operations in the U.S., Australia, Canada, and the UK.

Industry

Fintech Marketing and Advertising Media and Entertainment Real Estate Software Financial Services SaaS Security

Second Century Ventures Funds

Name Type
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Industry
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Stage
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Region
Size AUM Launch date
Second Century Ventures Fund 1
Venture Capital (VC)
Financial Services
Fintech
Real Estate
SaaS
Security
Software
Pre-seed
Seed
North America
$5-10 m
$71 M
November 2009

Contacts

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Bob Gillespie Executive Director
Executive Director
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Dave Garland Partner
Partner
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FAQs about Second Century Ventures

Second Century Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm. It backs companies at Seed and Series A, writing tickets of $1-5 m.
Second Century Ventures is located in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Second Century Ventures was founded in 2009.
Second Century Ventures invests in companies and startups in Fintech, Marketing and Advertising, Media and Entertainment, Real Estate, Software, Financial Services, SaaS, Security.
Second Century Ventures invests in companies and startups in North America, Asia, Australia and others.
Second Century Ventures invests in companies and startups at Seed, Series A.
Second Century Ventures usually invests $1-5 m on average.
Second Century Ventures has around $2 900m assets under management.
Second Century Ventures last fund was created/launched in 2009-11-10
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