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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.
U.S.-based venture capital fund of Baird Private Equity, makes investments in early- and expansion-stage companies in the Business Services and Healthcare/Life Sciences sectors.
Early stage and growth Venture Firm
Sandbox is a different kind of venture capital firm. We focus on the corporate partners in our funds, sourcing investments that both advance and challenge their strategies, collaborating closely with them, and facilitating their collaboration with each other, which leads to revenue for our portfolio through our partners and extraordinary returns.
Building a family of companies to last forever
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.
MDT Ventures is early growth-stage venture capital fund focused on equity investments in companies with dynamic growth potential, primarily technology and highly-scalable services businesses. MDT invests in many industries, with a preference for technology, financial services, education, healthcare, and logistic/supply chain.
Catalyst for startup traction - By providing one team or an individual entrepreneur with a $1000 grant and coworking space on a quarterly basis
Sterling Partners is a private equity firm with a distinct point of view on how to build great companies. Founded in 1983, Sterling has invested billions of dollars, guided by the company’s stated purpose: INSPIRED GROWTH™, which describes Sterling’s approach to buying differentiated businesses and growing them in inspired ways. Sterling focuses on investing growth capital in small and mid-market companies in industries with positive, long-term trends – education, healthcare, and business services. Sterling provides valuable support to the management teams of the companies in which the firm invests through a deep and dedicated team of operations and functional experts based in the firm’s offices in Chicago, Baltimore, and Miami.
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.
Origin Ventures, founded in 1999, is a leading venture capital firm composed entirely of former operators and engineers with extensive venture investing experience. The firm’s realized performance places it in the top 5% of VC firms nationally. While Origin is based in Chicago, the firm invests across the country in emerging software, online marketplace, and digital content businesses capable of exponential growth through innovation and hard work. Typical investments are in Series A rounds in companies that have achieved preliminary product-market fit. Origin’s initial check can range from $1M to $3M. In 2015, the firm created the Origin Ventures Network, an engaged community of portfolio companies, to offer expanded opportunities for collaboration and support amongst the portfolio companies’ hundreds of employees. By providing the network with dedicated tools and resources, Origin helps its portfolio companies solve problems faster and navigate the challenges of growing into a market leader.
We recognize that the future of mobility is in our hands. What should the New Mobility look like to create healthy businesses and economies that are environmentally sustainable and create opportunities for everybody? What is the role of New Mobility in fostering individual freedom and thriving democratic societies?
WE COLLABORATE BEFORE INVESTING BY WORKING ALONGSIDE ENTREPRENEURS. THE RESULT? AN INVESTMENT STRATEGY THAT ALIGNS INTERESTS, ACCELERATES PROOF OF CONCEPT, AND CREATES FAVORABLE OUTCOMES.
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.
WLV is a seed and series A venture fund that invests in Business to Business Fin Tech. The companies we invest in will have institutions as their customers. We invest in Insurance, Banking, Trading, Capital Markets, Finance Back office, Risk, Data, Process and anything that touches finance. Target fund size is $30M. Initial check size $100-$500K
TRIBUS delivers custom platforms to help real estate brokerages best engage their Clients, Agents & Staff
Global private equity investment management firm
We founded Drive Capital because the Midwest is the best place in the world to build a business.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.
New Stack Ventures leads investment rounds in pre-seed and seed stage startups for founders outside the typical mold.
R7 Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies with ambitious innovation. We believe in partnering with extraordinary teams in thinking differently to solve real problems. All of our investments are driven by our core values.
