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Family office profile
DNS Capital
Chicago, ILSingle family office (confirmed)identity confidence 90%Top 500 by research prioritydnscap.com
Why this class: DNS Capital's own site and an independent ACG Insights (Middle Market Growth) magazine profile both confirm it is the single-family office of Gigi Pritzker and Michael Pucker's family in Chicago..
Verified Sep 15, 2026 (2 days ago)
Last observed Sep 16, 2026 · 11 observations · 3 sources
14 people · 1 investments · 0 public positions · 0 events
Identity
90
high
Data depth
60
high
Freshness
100
high
Active deployment
50
elevated
Direct investing
15
moderate
External managers
0
low
Private markets
0
low
Sponsor-friendly
0
low
Real estate
0
low
Co-investment
90
high
Contactability
40
elevated
Mandate confidence
10
low
Twelve separate dimensions, each 0 to 100 from listed components. There is no single family office score; the components are in the evidence section.
Overview
Profile completeness 44% (high value, high value shallow; the most valuable missing fact is contacts)
identityclassificationwealth origincapital-scale evidencepeoplecontactsmandatedirect investmentsfund relationshipsco-investorssponsor relationshipsreal estatepublic holdingsrecent eventsprovenancefreshness
- Classification
- Single family office (confirmed)
- Description
- DNS Capital is the Chicago-based investment office for the business enterprise of Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker, and their immediate family.
- Headquarters
- Chicago, IL
- Office address
- unknown
- Business phone
- unknown
- Website
- dnscap.com
- Year established
- unknown
- Assets under management
- unknown
- Capital scale
- Reported office AUM: unknown. No public number of any kind.
Classification history
- Sep 15, 2026Single family office (confirmed) 90%DNS Capital's own site and an independent ACG Insights (Middle Market Growth) magazine profile both confirm it is the single-family office of Gigi Pritzker and Michael Pucker's family in Chicago.Factverifiedmiddlemarketgrowth.org“DNS is the family investment office for Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker and their three adult daughters”
- Sep 14, 2026Single family office (confirmed) 90%DNS Capital describes itself as the investment office for Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker and their immediate family.Factverifieddnscap.com“DNS Capital is the investment office and internal merchant bank for the business enterprise of Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker, and their immediate family.”
Family and wealth origin
- Family served
- Pritzker-Pucker family
- Source of wealth
- unknown
- Operating company origin
- unknown
Team
| Person | Title | Responsibility | Business contact | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Stal | Director of GSD | Leadership | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Chas Muth | Vice President | Leadership | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Emily Casey Brown | Principal | Leadership | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Goldman Sachs | Private Equity Associate in Principal Investment Area, 2013–2015 | Leadership | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Jason Schroeder | Managing Director | Leadership | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Jeff Ehlers | Operating Partner | Leadership | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Mary Kate Holland | Executive Assistant / Office Facilities Manager | Leadership | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Michael A. Pucker | Chairman & CEO | Leadership | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Rachel Bartunek | Director of Executive Support | Leadership | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Alan Bakhos | General Counsel | Operations and finance | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Lizzie Osmundson | Senior Counsel | Operations and finance | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Scott Hairston | Chief Operating Officer | Operations and finance | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| George Lyman | Senior Associate | Other | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
| Savannah Dosland | Associate | Other | none on record | dnscap.com Fact |
Office contact points
Investment mandate
Stated (their words, cited)
No cited statement of mandate on the record.
Observed (from the investment record)
No investments on the record yet, so nothing is observed.
Inferred (regulatory shape and team)
Nothing to infer from.
- Invests directly
- unknown
- Allocates to managers
- unknown
- Asset classes
- unknown
- Sectors
- unknown
- Geography
- unknown
- Check size
- unknown
Direct investments
| Date | Company | Kind | Sector | Role | Amount | With | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2026 | Seasats | Round participation | unknown | participant · minority | unknown round $20.0M | Konvoy Ventures (co investor), Shield Capital (co investor), Techstars (co investor), Tanis Venture Management (co investor), Crumpton Ventures (co investor), Dorado Group (co investor) | prnewswire.com Fact “SAN DIEGO , Feb. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Seasats, a leader in small uncrewed surface vehicles (sUSVs), today announced the close of a $20 m” |
Fund and manager relationships
No fund commitment or manager relationship on the record. Commitment amounts are shown only when public.
Public stakes and holdings
Form 13F holdings
No 13F filing on the record for this office.
Real estate
No documented real estate ownership link. A property is attributed to an office only through a documented control relationship, never from a surname.
Co-investors
| Counterparty | Kind | Shared deals | First, last | Examples | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanis Venture Management | organisation | 1 | Feb 17, 2026 | Seasats | prnewswire.com |
| Konvoy Ventures | organisation | 1 | Feb 17, 2026 | Seasats | prnewswire.com |
| Shield Capital | organisation | 1 | Feb 17, 2026 | Seasats | prnewswire.com |
| Dorado Group | organisation | 1 | Feb 17, 2026 | Seasats | prnewswire.com |
| Crumpton Ventures | organisation | 1 | Feb 17, 2026 | Seasats | prnewswire.com |
| Techstars | organisation | 1 | Feb 17, 2026 | Seasats | prnewswire.com |
- Dorado Group Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Crumpton Ventures Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Tanis Venture Management Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Techstars Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Shield Capital Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Konvoy Ventures Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Dorado Group Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Crumpton Ventures Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Tanis Venture Management Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Techstars Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Shield Capital Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Konvoy Ventures Feb 17, 2026 recurring (2) Fact prnewswire.com
- Stephens Group, LLC Jan 16, 2025 recurring (2) Fact stephensgroup.com
- Stephens Group, LLC Jan 16, 2025 recurring (2) Fact stephensgroup.com
Independent sponsor relationships
No cited relationship to an independent sponsor.
Signals and timeline
No dated events beyond 13F filings.
Sources and evidence
Every observation behind this profile: the value, when it was effective, the source, the quote where there is one, and whether it is a fact, an inference or an estimate. 11 shown.
Score components
Freshness
+100 days since the newest source-dated fact or analyst verification (1 days)
Contactability
+40 named decision-makers (Michael A. Pucker (Chairman & CEO); Jason Schroeder (Managing Director); Emily Casey Brown (Principal))
Data confidence
+10 website
+10 description
+10 people
+15 investments
+15 independent sources (3 sources)
Active deployment
+25 dated private investments in last 24 months (Seasats (2026-02-17))
+25 a dated private investment in last 12 months (2026-02-17)
Exists confidence
+20 website
+30 independent sources (3 sources)
+30 analyst-verified
Research priority
+15 single family or family investment company
+3 direct investments on record
+10 deployed in last 24 months
+0 rank (254)
Mandate confidence
+10 mandate supported by observed investments
Identity confidence
+90 classification (CONFIRMED_SFO (DNS Capital's own site and an independent ACG Insights (Middle Market Growth) magazine profile both confirm it is the single-family office of Gigi Pritzker and Michael Pucker's family in Chicago.))
Real estate propensity
no components; scored 0
Co investment propensity
+80 co-investors on the record (Crumpton Ventures; Konvoy Ventures; Crumpton Ventures; Tanis Venture Management; Tanis Venture Management)
+10 participant in syndicated rounds
Family identity confidence
+40 family named (Pritzker-Pucker family)
Private markets propensity
no components; scored 0
Current activity confidence
+50 dated private investment in 24 months
+25 a source-dated fact within 12 months (1 days)
External manager propensity
no components; scored 0
Direct investment propensity
+15 observed direct investments (1 on the record)
Independent sponsor propensity
no components; scored 0
| Fact | Value | Effective | Source | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | DNS Capital is the Chicago-based investment office for the business enterprise of Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker, and their immediate family. | Sep 16, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) dnscap.com | Fact |
| Family served | Pritzker-Pucker family “DNS Capital is the investment office and internal merchant bank for the business enterprise of Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker, and their immediate family.” | n/a | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) dnscap.com | Fact |
| Office type (stated) | single_family_office “DNS is the family investment office for Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker and their three adult daughters” | Sep 15, 2026 | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) middlemarketgrowth.org | Fact |
| Office type (stated) | single_family_office “DNS Capital is the investment office and internal merchant bank for the business enterprise of Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker, and their immediate family.” | Sep 14, 2026 | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) dnscap.com | Fact |
| Site mentions | venture | Sep 16, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) dnscap.com | Fact |
| Team page url | https://www.dnscap.com/team/ | Sep 16, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) dnscap.com | Fact |
| Website | dnscap.com | Sep 15, 2026 | DFX model output (classification rules, scores, mandates, matches) dnscap.com | Inference |
| Website | dnscap.com “office website dnscap.com” | Sep 14, 2026 | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) dnscap.com | Fact |
| Website read | site-fo-3 | Sep 16, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) dnscap.com | Fact |
| Website search | research_hint:dnscap.com “research named dnscap.com as the site of DNS Capital” | n/a | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) dnscap.com | Inference |
| Website title | DNS Capital | Family Office of Michael Pucker & Gigi Pritzker | Sep 16, 2026 | Family office and investment company websites (about, team, portfolio, news pages) dnscap.com | Fact |