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Venture Connects, LLC, was founded in 2012. VC is a startup and investor community designed to provide impactful resources to businesses seeking outside funding, as well as for accredited investors seeking qualified and vetted deal flow through our VCVetted® program and online platform.
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Wildcat Venture Management, Inc. is a life sciences venture development firm that creates and manages pharmaceutical and medical device companies based on technology developed by major universities and academic medical centers. Wildcat was founded in 2006 to bridge the gap that exists between academic discoveries and the creation and management of successful venture- backed companies. Wildcat’s mission is to take academic innovations and turn them into clinically useful products (i.e. therapeutics and diagnostics).</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">For over 25 years and across more than 100 growth companies, the principals of Chicago Growth Partners have partnered with quality management teams to help facilitate their growth objectives. CGP executes its growth-focused investment strategy across four industries: Education, Tech-Enabled Services, Healthcare and Industrial Growth, where our expertise in information technology, marketing, and finance can often be helpful to our management teams. CGP currently manages $1.2 billion of committed capital and has offices in Chicago and La Jolla.</span></p>
Omkara Ventures is a hybrid growth consultancy focused on accelerating innovative entrepreneurs and startups. We're an agile and data-driven team of investors and strategists that partner with early-stage companies to develop predictable and sustainable growth through a technology-driven and customer-centered approach.
Working with tomorrow's most innovative and disruptive companies in the food industry.
Wintrust Financial (Wintrust) is a financial services holding company based in Rosemont, Illinois, with $50 billion in assets. Wintrust engages in the business of providing traditional community banking services, wealth management services, commercial insurance premium financing, mortgage origination and more. Focused on the commitment to community, the company has grown with 175 locations across Illinois, Wisconsin, and Canada. Wintrust’s dedication to serving with a family approach has made us a community staple. Niche offerings and products from Commercial Banking, Wintrust Mortgage, Wintrust Asset Finance, Wintrust Wealth Management, Wintrust Life Finance, and more, allows us to serve our diverse customer base in every phase of their financial needs.
CSC Generation is saving retail. In just four years, we’ve acquired and turned around several brands to get to a $500M run rate. We’ve also saved over 1,000 jobs, several companies from liquidation, and have over one million happy customers and counting. Starting with DirectBuy Home Improvement Inc in 2017, our acquisition of Z Gallerie in 2019, and our recent acquisitions of One Kings Lane, and Sur La Table, we're consolidating the home furnishings industry, while driving growth through digital. Founded by Justin Yoshimura and backed by world class investors.
<p>FireStarter Fund is a Chicago-based self-managed investment fund. It consists of 42 members and has $5.7 million in committed capital. The Fund focuses primarily on companies in the digital media & marketing, software as a service, and e-commerce sectors, with a focus on web social, mobile and big data, and it makes most of its investments in series A or B rounds.</p>
<h1 class="description summary-field-show-more" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 2.4em; font-weight: 100; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 48px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 1000px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);">We founded Drive Capital because the Midwest is the best place in the world to build a business.</h1><p>Drive Capital is a venture capital investor based in and focused on the Midwest. We partner with early stage or rapidly growing technology companies that want to become massive, sustainable businesses. </p>
I founded Rush Street Enterprises to explore business consulting and investing opportunities. My main goal is to invest my time and money in startups and other small businesses that have identified a creative idea and a focused market segment and to help add value to the business in order to take them to the next level of success.
The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Chicago invests in and directly supports the growth of early stage ventures, primarily located in the Chicago area and surrounding region. The organization consists of current and former executives, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists with a serious commitment to investing their capital, expertise, and time into high potential entrepreneurial ventures in order to enable their success.
Treehouse Adventures is a non-traditional investment group with roots in Clayco, one of the nation’s leading full-service, design-build construction companies. We empower innovators to create growth businesses in the areas of building technology, material sciences, multidisciplinary design and other areas of construction services.
We are a venture fund whose LPs are the most knowledgeable, respected and best connected service providers in the industry. These are people who work closely with startup companies on a day-to-day basis and include startup company lawyers, mobile app developers, real estate brokers, venture bankers, accountants, CFO consultants, web developers, employee benefits providers, HR consultants, patent lawyers, and executive search specialists, among others. We also have LPs who are serial CFOs, CEOs and company founders. The common thread among our LPs is deep experience growing startup companies and a total alignment behind the success of our portfolio companies.
Founder Equity is an early stage fund with a radically different approach. We provide cash and talent, giving founders a "startup team in a box". Founders get access to full time designers, developers, marketers, strategists and more.
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We’re a venture studio designed for companies wanting to build high-impact software. We’ve successfully helped launch 60+ digital products for companies. We explore markets where deep subject matter expertise is required to produce the purpose-driven products and software we build. We’ve been honing our approach to tackle such challenges since 2012.
MATH Venture Partners invests primarily in Series A and Seed rounds, managed by a seasoned team of hands-on investors and operators. We look for entrepreneurial teams that have customer acquisition as part of their core DNA. It is this maniacal focus, deep appreciation for process and exceptional talent that makes them stand out.
<p>Global private equity investment management firm</p>
