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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 investors for Venture Capital startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
| Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S2G Ventures | http://www.s2gventures.com | Chicago, Illinois, United States | Linkedin | |
| ARCH Venture Partners | http://www.archventure.com | Chicago, Illinois, United States | Linkedin | |
| Cleveland Avenue | http://www.clevelandavenue.com/ | Early Stage Venture | Chicago, Illinois, United States | Linkedin |
| Adams Street Partners | https://www.adamsstreetpartners.com/ | Chicago, Illinois, United States | Linkedin | |
| Origin Ventures | http://www.originventures.com | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Chicago, Illinois, United States | Linkedin |
At Early Stage Life we track over 1,000,000 investors and over 3,800,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 62 Venture Capital investors in Chicago. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Chicago)
S2G Ventures
S2G Ventures is a multi-stage venture fund focusing on investments in food and agriculture industries.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Agriculture, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Venture Capital
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ARCH Venture Partners
ARCH is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on life science discoveries to prevent, detect, and cure disease.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Cleveland Avenue
Cleveland Avenue is a Chicago-based venture fund and accelerator that invests in food, beverage, and tech businesses.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Retail Technology, Venture Capital
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Adams Street Partners
Adams Street Partners operates as a global private market investment management firm.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Industries: Asset Management, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Origin Ventures
Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in software and marketing businesses enabling the Digital Native economy.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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M25
M25 is the most active early-stage VC firm investing in Midwest headquartered startups (14 states, 100+ companies) across most industries
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Consumer, Enterprise, Enterprise Software, Finance, Venture Capital
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TechNexus Venture Collaborative
Helping leading corporations & ambitious entrepreneurs work together to create new business models, revenue streams, products, and markets.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: B2B, B2C, Business Development, Venture Capital
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MATH Venture Partners
MATH Venture Partners invests in teams building companies with an unfair advantage in customer acquisition.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Venture Capital
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OCA Ventures
Hands-on, collaborative, and entrepreneur friendly early stage VC.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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Second Century Ventures
Second Century Ventures (SCV) is a venture capital fund focused on promoting innovation in the real estate industry.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture
Industries: Commercial Real Estate, Financial Services, Smart Home, Venture Capital
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Energize Ventures
Energize Ventures is a leading global alternative investment manager focused on the digitization of energy and sustainable industry.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture
Industries: Construction, Energy, Finance, Financial Services, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Venture Capital
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Promus Ventures
Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Aerospace, AgTech, FinTech, Robotics, Software, Space Travel, Venture Capital
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WP Global Partners
Institutional investor in venture capital, private equity, and private debt.
Investment Rounds: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Hyde Park Angels
Hyde Park Angels provides value to entrepreneurs and investors by driving startup growth and investment success.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Chicago Ventures
An early-stage venture capital fund, investing in exceptional entrepreneurs in the Central US.
Investment Rounds: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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New Stack Ventures
New Stack Ventures is a venture firm investing in startups that are pre-revenue, in pilots/PoCs, or early commercialization.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Internet, Venture Capital
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First Analysis
First Analysis is a venture capital investment company that offers equity research, investment banking, and sales and trading services.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Industries: Banking, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Hyde Park Venture Partners
Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth, mid-continent technology startups.
Investment Rounds: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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EVC Ventures
EVC Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital fund that focuses on early-stage startups.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Higher Education, Venture Capital
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Moderne Ventures
Moderne Ventures is a venture fund that invests in tech real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance, and home service companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Venture Capital
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Nine Four Ventures
Nine Four Ventures is a vertically-integrated, multi-stage real estate technology fund.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Venture
Industries: Financial Services, Real Estate, Venture Capital
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DRW Venture Capital
DRW Venture Capital is an arm of principal trading firm that invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Sandbox Industries
Sandbox bridges the gap between startups and corporations in three ways: strategic venture funds, accelerators, and consulting services.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Guggenheim Partners
Guggenheim Partners is a diversified financial services firm, offers investment management and banking, and insurance services.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Techstars Chicago
Techstars Chicago conducts programs for startups to connect with investors, mentors, and entrepreneurs.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Consulting, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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PEAK6 Investments LLC
Peak6 Investments operates as an investment management firm.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Venture
Industries: Financial Services, Information Technology, Trading Platform, Venture Capital
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Listen
Listen is a consumer-only venture capital firm focused on backing and building the brands of tomorrow.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Energy Foundry
Energy Foundry is a Chicago-based venture fund that invests in early-stage energy and clean-tech startups.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Clean Energy, CleanTech, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Impact Investing, Information Technology, Power Grid, Venture Capital
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Mazarine Ventures
Mazarine invests in early-stage companies with innovations that address water/wastewater risks
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Environmental Engineering, Venture Capital, Water, Water Purification
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BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners
Blue Venture Fund is a corporate venture fund program to which twenty-nine BCBS entities have committed over $500 million across three funds
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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VestedWorld
VestedWorld is an early-stage investor in businesses based in emerging markets.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Angel Investment, Business Development, Crowdfunding, Emerging Markets, Venture Capital
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JK&B Capital
JK&B Capital is a venture capital firm focused in the software, IT and communications markets.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Sandalphon Capital
Sandalphon Capital is a micro venture capital firm focused on Seed to Series A investments
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Germin8 Ventures
Germin8 Ventures is a venture capital firm actively investing with domain expertise and strategic backing in FoodTech and AgTech.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: AgTech, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Illinois Ventures
Illinois Ventures is a seed and early-stage technology investment firm focused on research-derived companies in information technologies,
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Chaifetz Group
Chaifetz Group is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in early- and mid-stage growth companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Prota Ventures
Prota Ventures is a venture-building and early-stage investment firm engaged in investing in early-stage companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: FinTech, Venture Capital
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Tensility Venture Partners
Tensility Venture partners with founders of early-stage enterprise startups in security, digital health, and novel, vertical-applications.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Health Care, Venture Capital
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Salveo Capital
Salveo Capital is a private investment fund focused on the legalized cannabis industry.
Investment Rounds: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Industries: Cannabis, Venture Capital
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True North Venture Partners
True North Venture Partners invests in and supports early stage businesses that have the potential to transform, expand and lead global
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Industries: Banking, Finance, Venture Capital
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VCapital
Early stage venture capital investing with focus on midwest tech, medical, and science deals.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: Venture Capital
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SWIDIA
A specialized growth marketing team for consumer startups looking to scale. We solve your toughest growth problems.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Advertising, App Marketing, Content Creators, Digital Marketing, EdTech, Marketing, Mobile Apps, Subscription Service, Venture Capital
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Sente Foundry
Sente is an international startup investment and innovation platform.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: AgTech, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Internet of Things, Logistics, Retail, Venture Capital
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Chicago Growth Partners
Chicago Growth Partners (CGP) is a Midwest US based private equity firm that provides expansion and buyout capital to middle-market
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Industries: Health Care, Venture Capital
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Pritzker Group Venture Capital
Pritzker Group Venture Capital is a trusted partner helping entrepreneurs build market-leading technology companies
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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DWG Investment Bank
Privately-owned and managed investment fund solutions
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Industries: Angel Investment, Asset Management, Banking, Financial Services, Hedge Funds, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Campus Consortium
Campus Consortium is a leading education association with more than 37,000 higher education institutions and K-12 school district members.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: Consulting, EdTech, Education, Events, Incubators, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Garland Capital Group
Founded in 2013, Garland Capital Group facilitates equity investments in high-growth companies and is a Chicago-based investment firm.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Candor Ventures
Candor Ventures is a venture studio and fund focused on early-stage venture investments and incubations.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: Venture Capital
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InvestHER Ventures
InvestHER Ventures makes early stage venture capital investments in female founders running technology companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Illinois Growth and Innovation Fund
Institutional Investor
Investment Rounds: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Industries: Venture Capital
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Thirty-5 Capital
Thirty-5 Capital is a venture capital firm with the mission of helping start-up, early stage, and family businesses.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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S2G Ventures
S2G Ventures is a multi-stage venture fund focusing on investments in food and agriculture industries.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Agriculture, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Venture Capital
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ARCH Venture Partners
ARCH is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on life science discoveries to prevent, detect, and cure disease.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Cleveland Avenue
Cleveland Avenue is a Chicago-based venture fund and accelerator that invests in food, beverage, and tech businesses.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture
Industries: Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Retail Technology, Venture Capital
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Adams Street Partners
Adams Street Partners operates as a global private market investment management firm.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Industries: Asset Management, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Origin Ventures
Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in software and marketing businesses enabling the Digital Native economy.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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M25
M25 is the most active early-stage VC firm investing in Midwest headquartered startups (14 states, 100+ companies) across most industries
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Consumer, Enterprise, Enterprise Software, Finance, Venture Capital
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TechNexus Venture Collaborative
Helping leading corporations & ambitious entrepreneurs work together to create new business models, revenue streams, products, and markets.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: B2B, B2C, Business Development, Venture Capital
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MATH Venture Partners
MATH Venture Partners invests in teams building companies with an unfair advantage in customer acquisition.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Venture Capital
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OCA Ventures
Hands-on, collaborative, and entrepreneur friendly early stage VC.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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Second Century Ventures
Second Century Ventures (SCV) is a venture capital fund focused on promoting innovation in the real estate industry.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture
Industries: Commercial Real Estate, Financial Services, Smart Home, Venture Capital
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