Inspire Business Club

<p>Inspiration can come in many shapes and sizes. Surround yourself with dozens of other small businesses, startups and independent thinkers to get your entrepreneurial juices flowing. At the Inspire Business Club you’ll find a professional environment created specifically for people just like you - creative, free-spirited and full of energy.</p><p>Like a good BYO party, you’ll find that everybody has an idea to contribute that will be both beneficial and rewarding. With full-time access to both the Discovery Room and Business Lounge, you’ll find new friends, broaden your network and uncover ideas in places you never knew existed.</p><p><strong>Membership Includes:</strong></p><ul><li>full time access to Discovery Room and Business Lounge</li><li>wireless fiber optic internet access</li><li>free on-site parking<br>mon-fri 6pm - 11pm sat-sun 8am - 8pm</li><li>coffee and filtered water</li><li>members only networking events</li><li>member discounts on private office use, conference rooms, copies and shipping services</li></ul>

Assemble

<p>You’re driven to succeed. We have created an environment that allows you to do so.</p><p>Welcome to Assemble.</p><p>Beautiful, private, short-term offices ideally situated where Old Town meets the Gold Coast in Chicago. We're pleased to be the first and only shared office in these neighborhoods.</p><p>Assemble draws from its surroundings for the space’s sophisticated design. The design team, led by GREC Architects (Palomar and Fairmont Hotels, Children’s Memorial Plaza and Eno Wine Room), has created an environment that fosters creativity.</p><p>The sprawling 13,000 square foot loft space is dominated by natural light and gorgeous views of the city. Dramatic 14 foot ceilings and glass-enclosed offices create an inviting setting.</p><p>Enjoy free wifi, copying/printing, phone service, utilities, bike storage and more. Coffee is always on the house and beer is too at happy hour. There is no extra charge for use of the conference rooms. The CTA red line is right outside the building.</p><p>Assemble is your office. Work in a private space, hold meetings with potential clients in a conference room, or finish an important project on a Sunday afternoon. We provide you with the access, environment and amenities you need to excel.</p>

Spirtle Space

<div class="mhl">Spirtle SpaceTM provides entrepreneurs, freelancers, and start-ups a place to think, grow, and learn. It is a coworking space designed to help you launch your new business or grow the business you currently have.</div>

Coalition: Energy

<p>Work. Cowork. Network.</p><p><a href="http://coalitionspace.microoffice.com/"><strong>Coalition </strong></a>is a collaborative space that fosters innovation, hard work, and growth for entrepreneurs and businesses. With locations in Chicago’s <a href="http://coalitionspace.microoffice.com/energy">Loop </a>and <a href="http://coalitionspace.microoffice.com/location/river-north/">River North</a>, we cultivate a coworking community of driven members by providing work space, classes and events geared to help your business grow.</p><p><strong><a href="http://coalitionspace.com/energy">Coalition: Energy</a></strong> is a coworking hub of professionals in energy. Leveraging more than a decade of coworking experience, Coalition seeks to provide a venue for collaboration and productivity for small business. Located in the heart of Chicago, <strong><a href="http://coalitionspace.com/energy">Coalition: Energy</a> </strong>occupies the penthouse of the historic Gage Building on Michigan Avenue. Just steps away from trains and downtown shops, members at this space enjoy panoramic views, which includes Millennium Park and Lake Michigan.</p><p><a href="http://coalitionspace.microoffice.com/"><strong>Coalition </strong></a>is a hub of entrepreneurs building business in a collaborative environment.</p><p>We are a diverse group united for a common purpose.</p><p>Join the <a href="http://coalitionspace.microoffice.com/"><strong>Coalition</strong></a>.</p>

Code Ventures

<p>Code Ventures is a technical cofouder for startups. As technical cofouders, CodeVentures will architect, code and implement your ideas into a company for equity. Scope of the deliverable vary from MVP to full product. We normally work with startups with cofounders who has good product and customer aquisition skills, but lacks technical skills or funds to hire developers. In technology we work with Mobile , Software, Internet , IoT and enterprise spaces. Please apply to start a conversation.</p>

Upsuite Corp.

Upsuite is where teams go to find coworking space. For businesses looking to accelerate their search for the perfect coworking office, Upsuite takes the guesswork out of finding the perfect fit office for their business. Upsuite currently operates in Denver, Boulder, and Toronto, and is opening markets in Chicago, Vancouver, Seattle, and more

BeOffice

BeUrban Workspaces is a flexible, friendly business community with affordable office spaces, event spaces, meeting rooms and coworking spaces designed to enhance the performance of today's entrepreneurs and business professionals.

IncubEx Inc.

IncubEx is an incubator for exchange traded products, services, and technology solutions. At its core, IncubEx is a product and business development firm. The company works in conjunction with its global exchange partner, European Energy Exchange (EEX) and other leading service providers and stakeholders to design and develop new financial products in global environmental, reinsurance, and related commodity markets. IncubEx has a specific focus on innovation and continuous improvement of products and services, including technology, trading solutions, and operational efficiencies. The team is comprised of former key Climate Exchange executives and is uniquely positioned to capture these opportunities with its partners. The company was founded in 2016 and currently has offices in Chicago and London.

VentureSHOT

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal !important;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">VentureSHOT Entrepreneur Collaboration Community brings together extraordinary entrepreneurs to help them grow their revenues, scale their businesses and enhance their levels of success.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal !important;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">This community was launched and is run BY Entrepreneurs...FOR Entrepreneurs.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal !important;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">We REALLY know the issues entrepreneurs face in growing revenues and scaling businesses.&nbsp; The VentureSHOT vision is to help hundreds of entrepreneurs achieve greater success and revenue growth through collaboration with their peers, mentors and unique, powerful collaboration sessions.</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal !important;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Entrepreneurs should join VentureSHOT if they are in one of the following categories:</span></span></p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal !important;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">1. Entrepreneurs that want to create massive revenue growth.</span></span></p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">2. They have launched a business that generates revenues between $100K and $1MM in revenue...and want to collaborate and mastermind with other entrepreneurs who have built and / or sold larger businesses and are willing to share their knowledge and experience with the VentureSHOT Community.</span></p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">3. Entrepreneurs who have grown one or more businesses to more than $1MM in revenue.&nbsp; Who want strategic help to accelerate their revenue growth and scale their company to the next level.</span></p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">4. Startups with</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: 700;">$0 to $100K in revenue,</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: 700;">who have recently launched (or are about to launch) their company and need/want guidance on how to launch, achieve revenue and grow a successful company from seasoned entrepreneurs and business specialists.</span></p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">5. Established companies under $10MM that need assistance in achieving revenue breakthroughs in growth, business turnarounds, or need assistance recapturing the entrepreneurial spirit.</span></p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">&nbsp;</p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><strong><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">Sponsors should become part of VentureSHOT if they:</span></strong></p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">1. Are focused on helping Entrepreneurs and their businesses grow rapidly and scale their businesses.</span></p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">2. Want Awesome Exposure to hundreds of entrepreneurs and companies each year...AND concentrated connections with between 40 to 60 VentureSHOT Collaboration Program Companies every 6 to 12 months.</span></p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">3. Have great VALUE to contribute to the VentureSHOT Community.</span></p><p class="no-styles" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">4. Are willing to make a commitment to both Show-up and Contribute to the Community as appropriate.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">&nbsp;</p>

Bradley Business Center

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Hansen Realty Services is a full-service real estate investment and commercial landlord company, focusing on commercial-industrial properties on the North Side of Chicago for over 20 years. We focus primarily on re-developing and the re-conception of buildings in the market. We gain vast, intimate knowledge of all our buildings, tenants, and clients, through controlling our projects in all aspects. We manage each property from acquisition to renovation and from leasing to management.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Founded by John Hansen, Hansen Realty Services owns and manages over 1,000,000 square feet of space around the North Side of Chicago.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Our current project includes the re-development and leasing of the Bradley Business Center. Located on the Chicago’s North Side near Western and Addison, this property bolsters an impressive 350,000 square feet consisting of both office, shared offices, and single story tech space</span></p>

Free Range Office

<p>Free Range Office (FREO) is where independent workers of the world reunite: a #coworking and conference space promoting productivity, innovation, networking, and work-life balance.</p><p>FREO is located minutes from downtown, and just three blocks from the Damen Blue Line El stop.&nbsp; The 3800sf space is situated directly on North Avenue, near the popular "Six Corners" intersection in the Bucktown-Wicker Park neighborhood. FREO offers members a prime work and meeting location, with a variety of Chicago’s best restaurants and stores just around the corner.</p><p>Beautifully designed to offer concierge-style hospitality, Free Range Office provides a feng shui layout, energizing natural light on every wall, comfortable <span class="text_exposed_show">workspace options, a meeting/conference/seminar room that can hold up to 40 people, and a variety of amenities – from a fully-equipped chef’s kitchen to a shower to a peaceful outdoor terrace. You choose how you want to engage: Community desk? Semi-private Office Pod? Private office? Lounge chair? It’s up to you. America is a country that’s about choice and we are too. </span></p><p>Contact us at [email protected] for a free day of coworking, and come enjoy the North Side's amazing new coworking space!</p><p>Free Range Office:&nbsp; Work Outside The Box.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Nuevo Labs

<p>Nuevo Labs Ventures is an investment group that seeks to invest in portfolio companies in emerging domestic markets. NLV focuses on early-stage tech-oriented companies that target underserved markets in high-growth consumer sectors with compelling value propositions, sustainable competitive advantages and demonstrable market proof. NLV seeks to generate superior returns for its partners, as measured against Thomson Venture Economics industry benchmarks, through the pursuit of undervalued opportunities within specific high-growth sectors in emerging domestic markets. NLV is based in Chicago, Illinois and seeks to discover and invest in portfolio companies in select metropolitan areas nationwide, such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. - See more at: http://www.nuevolabs.com/#sthash.nZkp2uUk.dpuf</p>

Artifice

<div class="mhl" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;">Mission</span></div><div class="mhl" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">&nbsp;</div><div class="mhl" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Artifice is Woodlawn-based Illinois not-for-profit corporation with a bold new approach to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. We seek to use project-based, hands-on learning to endow participants with the tech and entrepreneurial skills, specifically, that will make them the masters of their own destiny. Using the skills they learn at the center to create community-based social enterprises, students at Artifice will build their portfolios while benefitting the community. Ultimately, we hope to combine tech and entrepreneurial competencies in a way that will sustainably raise the economic and educational prospects of the neighborhood and surrounding areas.</div><div class="mhl" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><div class="mvm uiP fsm" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="fwb" style="font-weight: bold;">Vision</span></div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_52a0be700e0069209701021" style="display: inline;">“Artifice” comes from the Latin for “made art,” a fitting description for a hackerspace over which participants have creative control. We also like the word’s complex connotation, for what is a hacker, if not very skilled and a little mischievous? Being part of our world makes participants “Artificers,” who, in fantasy literature, are particularly powerful makers, tinkerers, and wizards--al<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">l terms used synonymously with hackers.<br><br>In the tech and engineering worlds, a “hack” is a work-around for a problem. It is often used to describe the act of making machinery or technology bend to the hacker’s will, rather than its intended purpose. We see the programs at Artifice as hacks that repurpose STEM curricula to solve the problems of structural inequality in public education and in the workforce.<br><br>The problem of inequality in public education--particularly in low-income areas of Chicago--has been the impetus for many STEM initiatives, but few programs are successful in setting participants up to overcome structural inequality in the workforce and thus to succeed in the long run. Tech, however, is the exceptional field; it is a meritocracy in which only the skilled prevail. Results matter far and above degrees or the ability to adhere to the arbitrary definitions of “professionalism” that exist in most work environments. Tech expertise is the great equalizer of our era and it is Artifice’s vision to prepare the underserved to take advantage of the opportunities it affords.<br><br><strong>History</strong></span></div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;"><br><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">The project began as a series of conversations between James Crooks, computational scientist and PhD candidate in Biophysics at the University of Chicago, Adam Hammond, Curriculum Director for the Biophysical Sciences Program at the University of Chicago, and Ashley Lane, Development Associate at a youth digital media nonprofit. One of the topics was whether it would be possible to sustainably raise the median income level of a neighborhood by investing in its youth and encouraging them to stay in the community so as not to cause a “brain drain.” The other was the failure of most STEM programs to actually teach any valuable STEM lessons, change students’ trajectories as a result of participation, and/or better their lifetime earnings substantially. The outcome was Artifice, a safe community center with tech programming that endows youth with marketable skills and the know-how to monetize them without having to leave the community.&nbsp;<br><br>In June 2013, the group began discussing the possibility of pursuing the concept in earnest. On August 23, 2013, a series of conversations with Alderman Cochran of the 20th ward culminated in the donation of a storefront space at 1500 E. 63rd St. by Dr. Rev. Leon Finney, Jr.&nbsp;<br><br>Artifice launched its programming on December 2, 2013.</span></div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</div></div><p>Pending the conferment of tax-exempt status by the IRS, we are relying on volunteer instructors and non-grant donations for the success of our program. Please visit our website or Facebook page if you want to learn more about supporting Artifice.</p>

MakeOffices

MakeOffices is a collaborative coworking community for small business & startups. Cutting-edge workspaces, superior amenities, community of passionate professionals & service above and beyond.

Level Office

Level Office is conveniently located in the heart of the Loop with 4 prestigious locations. Our professionally designed and furnished private offices start at $499/month. That price is inclusive of direct fiber internet, a dedicated phone and line, 24/7 secured access, and the best executive suite amenity space in Chicago. Our office and service rates are the most competitively affordable in the downtown area. And you have to come and see our conference rooms and 60" 3D plasma TV's! We want you to spend less on office rent and to stop getting nickeled and dimed, have better amenities, and to enjoy a newly built out space with unmatched technology and services. Our location, offices, amenities, and customer service will exceed your high expectations. We look forward to the opportunity to show you around Level Office! CALL 877.301.6217 or visit www.leveloffice.com to book a tour today!

The Wing

hello we are a work & community space designed for women.

gener8tor

gener8tor’s turnkey platform for the creative economy connects startup founders, investors, corporations, universities, job seekers, musicians and artists. The gener8tor platform includes accelerators, upskilling, corporate programming, and conferences with content on community growth, impact investing, diversity, equity and inclusion, and innovation across education, agriculture, insurance, healthcare, sustainability, and more.

MATTER

At MATTER, we believe collaboration is the best way to improve healthcare. The MATTER collaborative includes more than 700 current and alumni startups from around the world, working together with dozens of hospitals and health systems, universities and industry-leading companies to build the future of healthcare. Together we are accelerating innovation, advancing care and improving lives. For more information, visit matter.health and follow @MATTERhealth.

World Business Chicago

Chaired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, World Business Chicago drives regional economic growth. WBC collaborates to create jobs, cultivate talent, and put Chicago at the forefront of the global economy.