Angel or VC Firms in Chicago

Top Angel or VC Firm Startups & Companies In Chicago

90 Companies

VAULT Innovation

Agency • Angel or VC Firm

We’re a venture studio designed for companies wanting to build high-impact software. We’ve successfully helped launch 50+ tech 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.

Health Insurance Benefits

Unlimited Vacation Policy

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Plug and Play Chicago

Angel or VC Firm

Plug and Play Chicago is a seed to series A investment and acceleration program for Chicago-based start-ups looking to access the resources of Silicon Valley.

The 10 week program will take place at the Plug and Play headquarters in Silicon Valley and serve to complement the existing Chicago community and incubators. Apply to pitch at our next...

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Origin Ventures

Angel or VC Firm

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...

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Sandbox Industries

Angel or VC Firm • Healthtech

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.

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CSC Generation

Angel or VC Firm • eCommerce

CSC Generation is an e-commerce startup saving Retail. We acquire distressed retail and e-commerce companies, leverage our operating expertise and technology, and bring them forward with a digital focus. Our portfolio includes: Z Gallerie, One Kings Lane, DirectBuy, and Leaseco. Founded by Justin Yoshimura and backed by world class investors.

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Venture Connects ®

Angel or VC Firm

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.

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Leo Capital Advisors

Angel or VC Firm

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.

Leo maintains a broad network of...

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Northbrook

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Independence Equity

Angel or VC Firm

Independence Equity is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies commercializing technologies that improve resource utilization

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Northbrook

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Impact Engine

Angel or VC Firm • Social Impact

Impact Engine is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in companies driving positive impact in economic empowerment, education, environmental sustainability, and health.

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Chicago

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Chicago Ventures

Angel or VC Firm

Chicago Ventures invests in well-managed seed-stage technology companies in Chicago and the Greater Midwest that have demonstrated a value proposition in a given market for their product or services. The fund looks to make initial investments ranging from $250,000 to $1 million in each company.

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West Suburban Angels

Angel or VC Firm

West Suburban Angels help promising high growth-early stage businesses obtain the capital and mentorship that start-ups need in order to be successful - See more at: http://www.westsuburbanangels.com/

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Treehouse Adventures

Angel or VC Firm

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.

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Sterling Partners

Angel or VC Firm

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...

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Chicago

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Ekistic Ventures

Angel or VC Firm

Ekistic Ventures is a fund of urban problem-solvers who are actively cultivating a portfolio of disruptive companies that bring new solutions to critical urban problems. We invest our expertise and capital in entrepreneurs and young start-ups that have great ideas to make cities more efficient and equitable.

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The Cultivator

Angel or VC Firm

The Cultivator is a team of highly experienced Chicago business owners, investors, and experts. We provide entrepreneurs who are struggling to take their business to the next level with the guidance, capital, and resources they need so they can realize and reach their potential faster. The Cultivator invests business resources and capital in...

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MATH Venture Partners

Angel or VC Firm

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.

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New Stack Ventures | Venture Capital

Angel or VC Firm

We invest in founders and products that are positioned to fundamentally change existing markets or create new markets. We typically invest $100k-$500k at the seed or pre-seed stage. Our aim is to support founders and future founders before any capital has been raised.

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Chicago

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Omnium Blockchain

Angel or VC Firm • Blockchain

Omnium is Chicago’s first and only blockchain innovation ecosystem.

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Chicago

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Heartland Angels

Angel or VC Firm

Our mission is to be a catalyst in the process of innovation. We do this by creating forums in which human, intellectual and financial capital are joined for a common purpose.

Heartland Angels' unique process has four components:

A Program to perform a stepped due diligence analysis to review investment opportunities.
A Strategy to use the...

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Skokie

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Synetro Group

Angel or VC Firm • Other

Synetro Group is a Chicago-based private investment and strategic advisory firm. Founded in 2000, Synetro has invested in and grown multiple successful internet and business services companies as well as a niche consumer capital goods manufacturer.

Synetro partners with strong management teams to fund and build high-performing companies. Drawing on...

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