Kenex Holdings

Building a family of companies to last forever

New Mobility Ventures

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?

Omkara Ventures

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.

Wintrust Financial Corporation

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.

Sfermion

Invests in the non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem. Three types of investments: 1. Equity investments into early-stage startups 2. Token investments (both liquid and illiquid tokens) 3. Direct NFT investments

Workbox

Workbox Holdings, Inc. is a specialized workspace company that provides professionals with a diverse platform to connect both in person and virtually. In addition to traditional office space and coworking solutions, the Chicago-based company offers direct access to a range of investors, vetted strategic advising via experienced mentors and professional specialists, as well as an unparalleled community of growing businesses. Workbox offers flexible office solutions in extraordinary environments, with all the amenities you've come to expect. But, we are much more than just coworking—we are a home for innovative professionals and companies, connecting you to an unmatched network of resources tailored to support your business needs.

Energize Ventures

Energize Ventures is a leading global alternative investment manager focused on accelerating digital transformation in energy and sustainable industry. Founded in 2016, Energize has funded 20 companies to-date and is backed by strategic and institutional LPs including CDPQ, Invenergy, Schneider Electric, General Electric, Caterpillar, and more. With an unmatched depth and breadth of industry and operational expertise, Energize works in partnership with its portfolio companies to realize their full potential from early commercialization to growth scaling and into the public markets. For more information on Energize Ventures, please visit www.energize.vc.

Forum Ventures

Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program.

Pritzker Group Venture Capital

<p><a href="http://www.pritzkergroup.com/venture-capital">Pritzker Group Venture Capital</a>, formerly New World Ventures, helps entrepreneurs build market-leading technology companies at every stage of their growth. Since our founding in 1996, our firm has worked side-by-side with entrepreneurs at more than 100 companies, building partnerships bas

Sandbox Industries

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.

Energy Foundry

Energy Foundry invests venture capital in today’s most promising energy innovators, and we work with the world’s leading energy companies to build and scale new ventures. Our approach merges venture capital with the perks of partnership, and includes an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help bring great ideas to market.

Hopewell Ventures LP

<p>VC firm that invest in a variety of growth oriented companies</p>

Independence Equity Management, LLC

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Independence Equity is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies commercializing technologies that improve resource utilization.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">The inspiration for the Independence Equity Fund stems from observations made by its founding partners while building, advising and investing in early-stage companies during the last decade. These observations include the growing demand for and depletion of natural resources; the ability of entrepreneurs to solve such problems through innovation; and the inefficiency of capital markets in financing early-stage technologies, especially within the Fund’s targeted investment theme (see criteria). The Fund seeks to capitalize on these observations by providing entrepreneurs with capital to commercialize their innovations and create long-term capital appreciation.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</p>

Garland Capital Group

<p>Garland Capital Group is an investment group that supports disruptive companies. Garland creates opportunities for growth-stage companies to successfully launch industry-disrupting products and services in traditional markets. Garland supports the vision of the entrepreneur by supporting companies with a team of brand-building experts. While investing financially, Garland is also involved in the process of collaborating and teaching entrepreneurs how to run their businesses, lead teams, build a client or customer base and know when to scale.</p><p>Garland Capital Group was founded in 2012 by Gary Holdren, former President and Chief Executive Officer at Huron Consulting Group. Under Gary’s leadership, Huron was named the fastest growing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2005, eventually growing as a public company to a market cap of $1.8 billion.&nbsp;</p>

Washing Pond Ventures

<p><span style="color: rgb(146, 146, 146); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; ">Washing Pond Ventures is an early-stage investment fund that focuses on technology-enabled ideas through either internal incubation and development or external investment and support.</span></p>

TRIBUS

TRIBUS delivers custom platforms to help real estate brokerages best engage their Clients, Agents & Staff

First Analysis

<p style="list-style-type: none; padding: 5px 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: MyriadProRegular; line-height: 25px; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); font-size: 14px;">First Analysis is a leading private growth equity investor. We have one of the longest records (28 years) in private capital investing, having invested more than $700 million across multiple highly diversified funds.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; padding: 5px 0px; margin: 0px; font-family: MyriadProRegular; line-height: 25px; color: rgb(78, 78, 78); font-size: 14px;">First Analysis invests mainly in the United States with a focus on our three sectors of expertise: health care, broadband enabled businesses (IT applications and outsourced services), and clean-tech / infrastructure. We help established companies become profitable leaders in large markets, funding growth plans and working closely with management in areas including strategy, recruitment, sales and marketing, and corporate development. Our flexible approach targets investing $3-10 million as lead investor or as a syndicate partner who brings valuable perspective to the table.</p>

Leo Capital Advisors

<p><span style="color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Leo Capital Holdings, LLC is a privately funded venture investor making investments in early and later stage private companies. Our focus is primarily on consumer oriented technology and applications. We like ventures that target very large markets, and consider investment opportunities across the United States.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><br style="color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Leo maintains a broad network of contacts, investors, and advisors with whom we work after investing to help build value, and usually make investments that allow for our active involvement.</span></p>

Chicago Growth Partners

<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>

XCell Fund

XCell Fund is an angel investment firm that provides early-stage capital to businesses in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity. We focus on a wide array of industries ranging from B2B service to high frequency trading technology.