He joins the new VC firm after two years at Microsoft’s M12 unit.

Chinedu Udeogu has joined VC firm 53 Stations after a two-and-a-half year stint as investor at M12, Microsoft’s VC arm.

“Eager to continue partnering with ambitious founders driving innovation in construction tech, fintech, healthcare, and restaurant tech,” he said on LinkedIn.

53 Stations is an early-stage VC firm that counts The Pritzker Organization – a large family office – as its only limited partner. It launched its inaugural $190m fund in 2023 with a view to back startups across industries like software, consumer, fintech, and anything else linked with the parent organisation.

Before joining M12, Udeogu spent two years at Credit Suisse in New York as an investment banking analyst.

Fernando Moncada Rivera

Fernando Moncada Rivera is a reporter at Global Corporate Venturing and also host of the CVC Unplugged podcast.