| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.12.2022 | Mezo Launches to Take the Guesswork Out of Property Maintena... | Intelligent Intake Platform Drives ‘One Trip Resolution’ for Single- and Multi-Family Rental and Stu... |
| 18.08.2022 | BlueTape Raises $55M to Transform Financing and Payments for... | San Francisco, CA – August. 19th, 2022, BlueTape, a leading payments and financing provider for the ... |
| 08.08.2022 | Why now? Infertility is a crisis. Women’s healthcare should ... | By Emma Lawler, CV EIR
Now is the time to invest in women’s healthcare startups. We’ve hit an infle... |
| 21.04.2022 | From MBA Intern to EIR: Creating a Career Path in VC | Written by Emma Lawler, our new EIR. Read ‘How working in VC has make me a better entrepreneur’ on h... |
| 19.04.2022 | Vancouver based Olive chooses Chicago as the base for US exp... | Originally posted on the Olive company blog by Chris Heard, Founder and CEO at Olive.
We have been ... |
| 11.04.2022 | #NowHiring: Social and Communications Contractor | we’re Chicago Ventures, a venture capital firm that leads investment in early-stage startups (you ma... |
| 18.03.2022 | Unveiling Protégé: Be heard. Get discovered. | (This is a post written by the company founders: the original can be found on the Protégé website he... |
| 10.02.2022 | LandscapeHub announces $9 million in Series A funding to exp... | A Klaff Realty, LP Affiliate and Hyde Park Venture Partners co-led the round with new funding from O... |
| 11.01.2022 | project44 Receives $420 Million Investment led by Thoma Brav... | – With $100+ million in ARR, 1,000+ team members, 1,000+ customers, 1+ billion packages tracked annu... |
| 05.01.2022 | Help Wanted: CV is hiring an analyst | Update February 23, 2022: This role has been filled and we are no longer accepting applications.
Ch... |
| 14.10.2021 | Ureeka Announces $8.15M Series A-1 Funding Round | The platform is paving a new pathway for entrepreneurs to build their digital presence and acquire m... |
| 11.10.2021 | Digital Vault Platform Prisidio Raises Additional $3.5 Milli... | Prisido’s platform stores wills, mortgage deeds, immunization records, tax documents, and more.
Chi... |
| 29.09.2021 | Wider Circle Raises $38m in Series B Funding Round Led by Am... | Company to Leverage Funds to Nationally Scale Its Tech-Enabled Neighborhood Health Programs and Peer... |
| 21.09.2021 | NOCD Raises $33 Million to Address Global OCD Crisis; Series... | Series B led by F-Prime Capital with Eight Roads Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures joined by exis... |
| 07.09.2021 | TikTok & Snap Alums Launch mayk.it, a new Social Music C... | T-Pain backed app secures $4MM seed; combines simple song creation tools with passionate community
... |
| 11.08.2021 | Franchise Investing Platform FranShares Files with SEC After... | FranShares will soon offer investors access to direct franchise location ownership for as low as $50... |
| 10.08.2021 | Veryable Raises $31.9M to Revitalize US Manufacturing and Le... | Dallas, TX, August 10, 2021 – Veryable recently raised $31.9M in Series A funding to pursue its miss... |
| 22.06.2021 | G2 Raises $157 Million in Series D Financing to Continue Acc... | Leading software review site now valued at over $1 billion, with over 1.3 million verified reviews a... |
| 11.06.2021 | Storytelling Network Shopflix Officially Launches, Bringing ... | The Shopflix Video Streaming and E-commerce Platform Available Through their App and Website, with D... |
| 01.06.2021 | project44 Closes $202M Series E Round Led by Goldman Sachs A... | CHICAGO, Illinois – JUNE 1, 2021 – Today, project44, the leading supply chain visibility solutions p... |
| 20.05.2021 | Sunbit secures unicorn status with a $130M Series D round an... | Sunbit brings Buy Now, Pay Later to everyday needs and services
LOS ANGELES – Sunbit, the preferred... |
| 06.05.2021 | CognitOps Raises $11M Series A Funding Led by FirstMark Capi... | AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CognitOps, a global provider of artificial intelligence-based warehous... |
| 30.03.2021 | Cameo now valued at more than $1B after raising new funding | This article was originally posted on Chicago Inno.
Chicago’s buzziest startup is officially a unic... |
| 15.03.2021 | Founding Team Spotlight: Ureeka | Written by Chris McKenzie
Ureeka is a crowdsourcing, membership-based platform that taps into promi... |
| 08.03.2021 | Digital Payments Platform AeroPay Raises $5+ Million Venture... | The funding will support recruiting new talent, continued growth in the cannabis industry, and build... |
| 01.03.2021 | Announcing Chicago Ventures Fund III | CV raises $63M, promotes Peter Christman and Lindsay Knight to Partner, and hires Jackie DiMonte
Ma... |
| 13.01.2021 | OneRail Completes $6.7 Million Late Seed Financing Led by Ch... | Company to Scale Business Development, Sales, and Marketing Operations
ORLANDO, FL (January 13, 202... |
| 11.01.2021 | Dina Successfully Raises $7 Million in Financing to Accelera... | CHICAGO, January 11, 2021 — Dina, an AI-powered care-at-home platform and network, announced that it... |
| 08.10.2020 | Millions of People Battling OCD Garner Big Win as NOCD Raise... | Health Technology Company’s Series A Round Led by Health Enterprise Partners with Previous Investors... |
| 20.08.2020 | CoPilot Unveils Assisted Commerce Platform | Hits $500 Million in Annualized Gross Merchandise Value Enabled Prior to Public Launch
Company Anno... |
| 09.07.2020 | Health Catalyst Announces Agreement to Acquire healthfinch, ... | SALT LAKE CITY, July 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Health Catalyst, Inc. (“Health Catalyst,” Nasdaq: H... |
| 23.06.2020 | Rising to the Challenge: Lessons from the Frontlines of Toda... | Over the past few months, companies both small and large have had to quickly adapt to COVID-19. From... |
| 16.06.2020 | CognitOps Raises $3M Seed Funding Led by Chicago Ventures, a... | Austin, TX – June 16, 2020 – CognitOps, an AI startup whose software models and automates warehouse ... |
| 27.05.2020 | Rising to the Challenge: Lessons from the Frontlines of Toda... | Over the past few weeks, companies both small and large have had to quickly adapt to COVID-19. From ... |
| 20.04.2020 | Ureeka Secures $8.6M Investment to Drive Business Growth for... | New community provides female and minority business owners and entrepreneurs access to people, tools... |
| 26.03.2020 | Forager Secures $10 Million Series A Financing Round Led by ... | Cross-border tech company to actively accelerate implementation of product roadmap while setting the... |
| 26.02.2020 | OneRail raises $5.8MM in financing to scale Final Mile Orche... | Retailers and Product Distributors Gain New Capabilities to Scale Final Mile Delivery
ORLANDO, FL (... |
| 02.10.2019 | PreFix is the Primary Care Physician for Your Home: Read Why... | By Rob Chesney, CV GP and PreFix Board Member.
In a world where innovation is relentlessly eradicat... |
| 01.10.2019 | NOCD Raises $4 Million in Series A Funding | Round Led By Chicago Ventures; 7Wire Ventures, Meridian Street Capital, Hyde Park Angels Also Partic... |
| 12.09.2019 | Forager Announces Tech Platform and Series Seed Raise | Forager treats every cross-border load like it’s a heart transplant
CHICAGO, IL – September 12th, 2... |
| 12.09.2019 | Finding Forager: Why We Invested | What often gets lost in the noise of perceived disruption is what’s actually happening on the ground... |
| 26.08.2019 | SpotHero Announces $50 Million Series D Funding Led by Macqu... | CHICAGO-August 22, 2019- SpotHero, the digital parking leader, today announced $50 million in Series... |
| 19.08.2019 | People, Processes, Product, and Tools: How HealthJoy Has Bui... | HealthJoy simplifies the healthcare experience by providing personalized benefits guidance, helping ... |
| 12.06.2019 | Sunbit Announces $26M in Funding Round Led by Zeev Ventures | Machine learning-based point-of-sale fintech will accelerate growth and extend financing technology ... |
| 30.05.2019 | Advice from a VC intern: Chicago Ventures’ Adit Damodaran | Adit is a third-year undergraduate at the University of Chicago from Chattanooga, TN. He’s an Econom... |
| 28.05.2019 | Help Wanted: Chicago Ventures is hiring an Analyst and Assoc... | Chicago Ventures invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer software companies in the middle of ... |
| 13.03.2019 | We’re hiring a Platform intern! | Chicago Ventures is hiring an intern to join its Platform team — the team that owns firm brand and m... |
| 08.03.2019 | HealthJoy raises $12.5M Series B to help employees make the ... | Read the full post at TechCrunch. |
| 22.01.2019 | Viacom Has Acquired Pluto TV Streaming Service for $340 Mill... | Read the full post at Variety. |
| 08.01.2019 | Gladson Acquires ItemMaster to Expand its Product Database a... | The latest in a series of acquisitions further enhances Gladson’s omni-channel product content and q... |
| 11.10.2018 | G2 Crowd builds the world’s largest business commerce platfo... | Series C round shows startup becoming ‘next Amazon for business’
CHICAGO, Oct. 11, 2018 — G2 Crowd,... |
| 10.10.2018 | The Many Flavors of Venture Partners: From the Platform Brai... | In August, I put out a call to the Global VC Platform network with the subject line “Venture Partner... |
| 01.10.2018 | project44 Secures $45M in Funding to Expand its Advanced Vis... | Funding Led by Sapphire Ventures
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–project44 (p44), the leader in advanced vi... |
| 01.10.2018 | Meritize Raises $13.2M in Series A Funding | Skills-Based Career Development Company Uses Proprietary Merit-Based Lending Model to Expand Educati... |
| 29.08.2018 | infinite io, which Provides Data Management and Performance ... | Funding Round led by Former Motorola CEO and Cleversafe Chairman Chris Galvin
August 29, 2018 9:00 ... |
| 21.06.2018 | Chicago Ventures and #MovingForward | We recently posted our policies against harassment, discrimination and retaliation on the #MovingFow... |
| 13.06.2018 | A Peek into the CV Portfolio [Or, How We Engage 2,200 Startu... | Since 2012, Chicago Ventures has invested in over 80 startups, which means we’ve worked closely with... |
| 12.06.2018 | Kin Insurance Raises $13M in Financing, Welcomes New Board M... | With its latest round of funding and new board member Caribou Honig, online home insurance startup K... |
| 02.05.2018 | Global SAM Leader, Flexera, Acquires Meta SaaS to Offer Most... | With 32,000 SaaS Apps in Catalog and 250+ Direct Integrations, Now Organizations Can Rein in Runaway... |
| 19.04.2018 | Mac & Mia Secures $5M in New Funding to Grow Market Lead... | CHICAGO, IL (April 19, 2018) – Mac & Mia, the premier stylist-driven, curated children’s apparel... |
| 17.04.2018 | project44 Raises $35 Million to Turn Data into True Supply C... | Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
Financing Led by OpenView to Bring Total Funding to ... |
| 26.03.2018 | How We Celebrated International Women’s Day with the CV Port... | On March 8, we brought together the women (and some men) from the Chicago Ventures portfolio to cele... |
| 14.03.2018 | Chicago Startup LandscapeHub Closes $4.4 Million Seed Fundin... | First End-to-End Online Marketplace for the $75 Billion B2B Green Industry
CHICAGO, March 14, 2018—... |
| 02.03.2018 | The Chicago Ventures Portfolio Discusses 1st Steps for Build... | Over the last 24 months we’ve brought together the teams leading People Ops efforts at our Chicago V... |
| 21.02.2018 | Student Lending Platform Meritize Secures $6.8M Seed Funding... | The Company Uses a Proprietary Merit-Based Lending Model to Fund Skills-Based Education
FRISCO, TX,... |
| 18.12.2017 | Heretik Closes $2.4 Million Seed Round | CHICAGO, Dec. 18, 2017 – Heretik, a Chicago based software company that uses machine learning to mak... |
| 04.12.2017 | “Director of Platform…what does that mean?” | When I joined Chicago Ventures in 2014, the title “Director of Platform” didn’t exist in the Chicago... |
| 16.11.2017 | PreparedHealth’s (now Dina) Prescription for Highly-Engaging... | Founded in 2015, PreparedHealth is making it easier for people to access and experience care in thei... |
| 08.11.2017 | How Serial Entrepreneurs Found Product-Market Fit: A New Vid... | In partnership with Pat Ryan Jr., INCISENT Labs, and Chicago Founders’ Stories, we recently launched... |
| 29.08.2017 | Why We Invested in Wise Apple | This past weekend, my wife and I were blessed to welcome our third child into the world. A new baby ... |
| 29.08.2017 | Wise Apple, a Tech Enabled Ready-to-Eat Lunch Delivery Servi... | August 29, 2017 (Chicago) – Direct-to-consumer meal delivery service, Wise Apple, announced today th... |
| 14.08.2017 | HealthJoy Secures Series A Financing Round to bring Artifici... | CHICAGO, IL — Aug 14 2017 — Chicago, IL-based HealthJoy, Inc, an artificial intelligence-driven plat... |
| 14.08.2017 | Why We Invested in HealthJoy | By Peter Christman & Ezra Galston
While Senator McConnell and his Republican counterparts have ... |
| 01.08.2017 | Kin Insurance Launches Modern Home Insurance, Announces $4.0... | 8/1/17 – CHICAGO – Kin Insurance, the company that has built home insurance from scratch so that cus... |
| 18.07.2017 | SpotHero Secures $30 Million to Accelerate Market Expansion,... | With Strong Marketplace Track Records, Insight Venture Partners and Global Founders Capital Drive Se... |
| 24.05.2017 | Accel Leads $30M Series B into G2 Crowd to Accelerate Growth... | Significant Investment Cements G2 Crowd as the Clear Leader in B2B Reviews
CHICAGO – May 24, 2017 –... |
| 09.05.2017 | eRelevance Secures $5.1 Million in Funding to Accelerate Sal... | Funding builds on momentum of six consecutive quarters of triple-digit revenue growth and breakthrou... |
| 02.05.2017 | The Network for In-Home Care: Why We Invested in PreparedHea... | Just as our President is discovering the intricacies of the US healthcare system, the average citize... |
| 13.04.2017 | SpotHero Acquires Leading Competitor Parking Panda, Securing... | Acquisition Expands Business Into Canada and Fuels Strategic Focus On Convenience in B2B and Consume... |
| 23.03.2017 | Building an MVP in the Highly-Regulated Finance Industry | Startups are often defined by their ability to move quickly, to pivot, to grow rapidly, to be iterat... |
| 21.02.2017 | data.world Secures Nearly $19 Million in Venture Capital Fun... | The social network for data people closes second round at 2X previous valuation
Austin, TX – Februa... |
| 07.02.2017 | How a SaaS Marketer Used Content Marketing to Launch a Brand... | project44’s VP of Marketing Ally Lynch joined the company at the beta stage – and she, like many who... |
| 01.02.2017 | GAN Integrity Inc. Raises $9 Million Led by Edison Partners | Accelerates Growth to Transform Corporate Compliance Management
BROOKLYN, NY – Jan. 31, 2017 – GAN ... |
| 11.01.2017 | Children’s Apparel Service Mac & Mia Raises $3.0MM in Se... | New kids apparel service is leading the charge in removing the friction from traditional shopping an... |
| 09.01.2017 | Catalytic’s Customer Success Exec on Being an Advocate for t... | When Andrew Thiermann was in his early 20s, he moved to Chicago from Paris, where he’d spent two yea... |
| 13.12.2016 | From Super Mario’s US Launch to New Mobile, Synchronous, Mul... | Tim Harris has had a hand in Chicago’s quietly ambitious gaming scene for over two decades, though h... |
| 22.11.2016 | Every Brand. Everywhere. | Nearly 25 years before Instacart was hatched and a decade prior to WebVan’s fall from grace, two bro... |
| 22.11.2016 | ItemMaster Secures $7.5M Series A Funding Led by Edison Part... | Funding Will Accelerate Growth of ItemMaster’s Key Offerings to Solve Dramatically Increasing Produc... |
| 16.11.2016 | Designing Parking Magic | SpotHero’s Chief Product Officer Anthony Broad-Crawford grew up with an entirely different career fo... |
| 31.10.2016 | Chicago Ventures Closes $66M Fund II to Continue Investing i... | Chicago Ventures, a seed stage venture capital firm that invests in tech-enabled startups, today ann... |
| 20.10.2016 | Welcome 2016-2017 CV Student Fellows! | We’re very excited to kick off one of our favorite initiatives here at Chicago Ventures – our Studen... |
| 29.09.2016 | How We Partnered with Twitter for #SheInspiresMe Day | We partnered with Twitter’s Retail team to organize #SheInspiresMe Day in September – an event aimed... |
| 21.09.2016 | Catalyze Raises $6.5 Million in Series B Financing to Meet t... | Lewis & Clark Ventures led the round, joined by existing investors Arthur Ventures, Baird Ventur... |
| 19.09.2016 | How Havenly’s CTO Has Built a High-Performing Engineering Cu... | A self-described “life-long nerd,” Havenly’s CTO Gabe Hesse loves making things. He’s a tinkerer who... |
| 12.09.2016 | The Intelligent Supply Chain: Our Investment in project44 | Chicago established itself as one of the world’s largest transportation hubs in the first half of th... |
| 12.09.2016 | project44 Raises $10.5M in Series A to Bring Real-Time Visib... | New funding from Emergence Capital and Chicago Ventures will allow for further product growth
CHICA... |
| 31.08.2016 | How data.world Collected Over 120 User Tests While Still in ... | When CPO Jon Loyens and his co-founders Brett Hurt (CEO), Matt Laessig (COO), and Bryon Jacob (CTO) ... |
| 11.08.2016 | How Shiftgig’s Team Scaled: Lessons from a Corporate Recruit... | Shiftgig’s Corporate Recruiter Justina Strnad has watched the Chicago-based company grow from a few ... |
| 27.07.2016 | Predata, Predictive Intelligence Pioneer, Raises $3.25 Milli... | Next-Generation Predictive Analytics Firm Will Use Capital to Help Financial Institutions, Corporati... |
| 26.07.2016 | Predicting the New (Volatile) Normal: Unpacking Our Investme... | On the eve of Britain’s June 23rd referendum to decide whether the country should leave the European... |
