Date | Title | Description |
07.12.2022 | Mezo Launches to Take the Guesswork Out of Property Maintenance, Raises $6 Million in Seed Funding | Intelligent Intake Platform Drives ‘One Trip Resolution’ for Single- and Multi-Family Rental and Student Housing Properties |
18.08.2022 | BlueTape Raises $55M to Transform Financing and Payments for SMBs in the Construction Industry | San Francisco, CA – August. 19th, 2022, BlueTape, a leading payments and financing provider for the construction industry, today announced the closing of a $50M debt funding led by Arcadia Funds and a $5M seed round led by Chicago Ventures.... |
08.08.2022 | Why now? Infertility is a crisis. Women’s healthcare should be a basic right. | By Emma Lawler, CV EIR |
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 her Substack here. |
19.04.2022 | Vancouver based Olive chooses Chicago as the base for US expansion | Originally posted on the Olive company blog by Chris Heard, Founder and CEO at Olive. |
11.04.2022 | #NowHiring: Social and Communications Contractor | we’re Chicago Ventures, a venture capital firm that leads investment in early-stage startups (you may recognize companies in our portfolio like Cameo, project44, SpotHero and G2). We’re hiring a part-time Social and Communications Contracto... |
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 here.) |
10.02.2022 | LandscapeHub announces $9 million in Series A funding to expand its national footprint | A Klaff Realty, LP Affiliate and Hyde Park Venture Partners co-led the round with new funding from Open Prairie Rural Opportunities Fund, Concentric Equity Partners, and Great Oaks Venture Capital for the intelligent green industry marketpl... |
11.01.2022 | project44 Receives $420 Million Investment led by Thoma Bravo, TPG and Goldman Sachs Valuing Business at $2.2 Billion Pre-Money | – With $100+ million in ARR, 1,000+ team members, 1,000+ customers, 1+ billion packages tracked annually and the top performer in analyst reports, project44 leads the supply chain visibility market |
05.01.2022 | Help Wanted: CV is hiring an analyst | Chicago Ventures invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer software companies in the middle of the country. We believe innovation is unbounded by geography. Structural conditions like higher concentrations of talent and customers are a... |
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 more customers
Burlingame, CA – Ureeka, the small business growth engine, today announced it has completed an $8.15 million Series A-1 fundin... |
11.10.2021 | Digital Vault Platform Prisidio Raises Additional $3.5 Million in Seed Funding to Help Store and Share Life’s Most Important Information | Prisido’s platform stores wills, mortgage deeds, immunization records, tax documents, and more. |
29.09.2021 | Wider Circle Raises $38m in Series B Funding Round Led by AmeriHealth Caritas | Company to Leverage Funds to Nationally Scale Its Tech-Enabled Neighborhood Health Programs and Peer-to-Peer Social Support Networks for Medicaid and Medicare
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Wider Circle, an innovative t... |
21.09.2021 | NOCD Raises $33 Million to Address Global OCD Crisis; Series B Financing to Support People Struggling with OCD, Fuel Growth | Series B led by F-Prime Capital with Eight Roads Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures joined by existing investors. Proceeds will accelerate the company’s mission to provide accessible and effective OCD treatment and introduce “Community-Dr... |
07.09.2021 | TikTok & Snap Alums Launch mayk.it, a new Social Music Creation App | 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 $1.4M VC Led Round | FranShares will soon offer investors access to direct franchise location ownership for as low as $500. |
10.08.2021 | Veryable Raises $31.9M to Revitalize US Manufacturing and Lead the Way on Industrial Innovation | Dallas, TX, August 10, 2021 – Veryable recently raised $31.9M in Series A funding to pursue its mission of revitalizing the $2+ trillion US manufacturing industry by allowing businesses to variablize labor as the first step into next-genera... |
22.06.2021 | G2 Raises $157 Million in Series D Financing to Continue Accelerating Growth of the World’s Most Trusted Software Marketplace | Leading software review site now valued at over $1 billion, with over 1.3 million verified reviews and 2,000+ customers |
11.06.2021 | Storytelling Network Shopflix Officially Launches, Bringing to Life the Stories of Founders, Brands and Categories | The Shopflix Video Streaming and E-commerce Platform Available Through their App and Website, with Distribution of Content Through YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Connected TVs and More |
01.06.2021 | project44 Closes $202M Series E Round Led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management – Valuing the Business at Over $1.2 Billion | CHICAGO, Illinois – JUNE 1, 2021 – Today, project44, the leading supply chain visibility solutions provider, announced it has closed a Series E investment of $202 Million led by funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs... |
20.05.2021 | Sunbit secures unicorn status with a $130M Series D round and $1.1B valuation | Sunbit brings Buy Now, Pay Later to everyday needs and services |
06.05.2021 | CognitOps Raises $11M Series A Funding Led by FirstMark Capital and Announces New Austin, TX HQ | AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CognitOps, a global provider of artificial intelligence-based warehouse operating applications, announces today that it has raised US$11 million in a Series A round of financing. FirstMark Capital led the inves... |
30.03.2021 | Cameo now valued at more than $1B after raising new funding | This article was originally posted on Chicago Inno. |
15.03.2021 | Founding Team Spotlight: Ureeka | Written by Chris McKenzie |
08.03.2021 | Digital Payments Platform AeroPay Raises $5+ Million Venture Round Led By Chicago Ventures Amid Rapid Growth | The funding will support recruiting new talent, continued growth in the cannabis industry, and building out additional features of the product |
01.03.2021 | Announcing Chicago Ventures Fund III | CV raises $63M, promotes Peter Christman and Lindsay Knight to Partner, and hires Jackie DiMonte |
13.01.2021 | OneRail Completes $6.7 Million Late Seed Financing Led by Chicago Ventures and Bullpen Capital | Company to Scale Business Development, Sales, and Marketing Operations |
11.01.2021 | Dina Successfully Raises $7 Million in Financing to Accelerate National Expansion of Digital Care-at-Home Platform and Network | CHICAGO, January 11, 2021 — Dina, an AI-powered care-at-home platform and network, announced that it has successfully closed a $7 million Series A funding round led by Philadelphia-based Osage Venture Partners. Existing investors, strategic... |
08.10.2020 | Millions of People Battling OCD Garner Big Win as NOCD Raises $12 Million | Health Technology Company’s Series A Round Led by Health Enterprise Partners with Previous Investors Returning |
20.08.2020 | CoPilot Unveils Assisted Commerce Platform | Hits $500 Million in Annualized Gross Merchandise Value Enabled Prior to Public Launch |
09.07.2020 | Health Catalyst Announces Agreement to Acquire healthfinch, a Healthcare IT Company that has Helped Define the Clinical Workflow Optimization Space with its Award-Winning Software | SALT LAKE CITY, July 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Health Catalyst, Inc. (“Health Catalyst,” Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, today announced that it has entered into... |
23.06.2020 | Rising to the Challenge: Lessons from the Frontlines of Today’s Startups | Volume 2 | Over the past few months, companies both small and large have had to quickly adapt to COVID-19. From moving from offices to remote work, to helping employees navigate the mental strain of a global pandemic, these have been challenging times... |
16.06.2020 | CognitOps Raises $3M Seed Funding Led by Chicago Ventures, and Appoints Roger Counihan Chief Revenue Officer | Austin, TX – June 16, 2020 – CognitOps, an AI startup whose software models and automates warehouse management, announced today that it has completed its seed round of $3 million. Chicago Ventures led the investment round, with Schematic Ve... |
27.05.2020 | Rising to the Challenge: Lessons from the Frontlines of Today’s Startups | Volume 1 | Over the past few weeks, companies both small and large have had to quickly adapt to COVID-19. From moving from offices to remote work, to helping employees navigate the mental strain of a global pandemic, these have been challenging times ... |
20.04.2020 | Ureeka Secures $8.6M Investment to Drive Business Growth for Next Wave Entrepreneurs Nationwide | New community provides female and minority business owners and entrepreneurs access to people, tools, services and capital crucial to success |
26.03.2020 | Forager Secures $10 Million Series A Financing Round Led by U.S. Venture Partners | Cross-border tech company to actively accelerate implementation of product roadmap while setting the new standard for cross-border shipping. |
26.02.2020 | OneRail raises $5.8MM in financing to scale Final Mile Orchestration and Fulfillment Platform | Retailers and Product Distributors Gain New Capabilities to Scale Final Mile Delivery |
02.10.2019 | PreFix is the Primary Care Physician for Your Home: Read Why We Invested. | By Rob Chesney, CV GP and PreFix Board Member. |
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 Participating |
12.09.2019 | Forager Announces Tech Platform and Series Seed Raise | Forager treats every cross-border load like it’s a heart transplant |
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. Last year, third party logistics firms (3PLs) controlled over $800B of freight spend. Despite the commotion around a broker-less logistics... |
26.08.2019 | SpotHero Announces $50 Million Series D Funding Led by Macquarie Capital | CHICAGO-August 22, 2019- SpotHero, the digital parking leader, today announced $50 million in Series D funding led by Macquarie Capital, bringing SpotHero’s total funding to date to $118 million. Union Grove Venture Partners participated in... |
19.08.2019 | People, Processes, Product, and Tools: How HealthJoy Has Built a Customer Success Organization | HealthJoy simplifies the healthcare experience by providing personalized benefits guidance, helping employees make better decisions to drive down costs. The easy-to-use app brings together medical professionals, advocates, Rx savings and ar... |
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 to additional critical in-store markets |
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 Economics major, with a specialization in Data Science, and a background in Computer Science. |
28.05.2019 | Help Wanted: Chicago Ventures is hiring an Analyst and Associate | Chicago Ventures invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer software companies in the middle of the country. We believe innovation is unbounded by geography. Structural conditions like higher concentrations of talent and customers are a... |
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 marketing and also works operationally with the firm’s portfolio companies. (You can read more about the CV Platform strategy here.) This int... |
08.03.2019 | HealthJoy raises $12.5M Series B to help employees make the most of their healthcare benefits | Read the full post at TechCrunch. |
22.01.2019 | Viacom Has Acquired Pluto TV Streaming Service for $340 Million | Read the full post at Variety. |
08.01.2019 | Gladson Acquires ItemMaster to Expand its Product Database and Retailer Reach | The latest in a series of acquisitions further enhances Gladson’s omni-channel product content and quality audit capabilities |
11.10.2018 | G2 Crowd builds the world’s largest business commerce platform fueled by $100M in funding | Series C round shows startup becoming ‘next Amazon for business’ |
10.10.2018 | The Many Flavors of Venture Partners: From the Platform Braintrust | In August, I put out a call to the Global VC Platform network with the subject line “Venture Partner Framework,” asking: |
01.10.2018 | project44 Secures $45M in Funding to Expand its Advanced Visibility Platform | Funding Led by Sapphire Ventures |
01.10.2018 | Meritize Raises $13.2M in Series A Funding | Skills-Based Career Development Company Uses Proprietary Merit-Based Lending Model to Expand Education Funding |
29.08.2018 | infinite io, which Provides Data Management and Performance Optimization, Raises $10.3M in Series B Funding | Funding Round led by Former Motorola CEO and Cleversafe Chairman Chris Galvin |
21.06.2018 | Chicago Ventures and #MovingForward | We recently posted our policies against harassment, discrimination and retaliation on the #MovingFoward website, which highlights VCs committed to diverse, inclusive, and harassment-free workplaces. |
13.06.2018 | A Peek into the CV Portfolio [Or, How We Engage 2,200 Startup Employees] | Since 2012, Chicago Ventures has invested in over 80 startups, which means we’ve worked closely with over 80 CEOs. But across the portfolio, our companies employ thousands of people. Some are startup veterans; some come from big companies, ... |
12.06.2018 | Kin Insurance Raises $13M in Financing, Welcomes New Board Member | With its latest round of funding and new board member Caribou Honig, online home insurance startup Kin Insurance moves to service national markets. |
02.05.2018 | Global SAM Leader, Flexera, Acquires Meta SaaS to Offer Most Advanced SaaS Spend Management Capabilities on the Market | With 32,000 SaaS Apps in Catalog and 250+ Direct Integrations, Now Organizations Can Rein in Runaway SaaS Spend and Reduce SaaS Risk |
19.04.2018 | Mac & Mia Secures $5M in New Funding to Grow Market Leadership Position while Delivering Personalized Value to Busy Parents | CHICAGO, IL (April 19, 2018) – Mac & Mia, the premier stylist-driven, curated children’s apparel service delivering a convenient, personalized experience to busy households, today announced that it has raised $5M in its Series A funding... |
17.04.2018 | project44 Raises $35 Million to Turn Data into True Supply Chain Visibility | Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE |
26.03.2018 | How We Celebrated International Women’s Day with the CV Portfolio | On March 8, we brought together the women (and some men) from the Chicago Ventures portfolio to celebrate International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. |
14.03.2018 | Chicago Startup LandscapeHub Closes $4.4 Million Seed Funding Round | First End-to-End Online Marketplace for the $75 Billion B2B Green Industry |
02.03.2018 | The Chicago Ventures Portfolio Discusses 1st Steps for Building Diverse + Inclusive Teams | Over the last 24 months we’ve brought together the teams leading People Ops efforts at our Chicago Ventures portfolio companies to cover topics like onboarding and orientation, culture, professional development, and comp planning. As we’ve ... |
21.02.2018 | Student Lending Platform Meritize Secures $6.8M Seed Funding Round | The Company Uses a Proprietary Merit-Based Lending Model to Fund Skills-Based Education |
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 make the contract review process smarter in Relativity, today announced that it has completed its $2.4 million seed round of financing. Corazon... |
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 venture community. Taking a page out of the books of some coastal funds, who’d had the role in place for years, our GPs Stuart and Kevin kn... |
16.11.2017 | PreparedHealth’s (now Dina) Prescription for Highly-Engaging User Experiences | Founded in 2015, PreparedHealth is making it easier for people to access and experience care in their homes, something nearly 90% of American Seniors want. |
08.11.2017 | How Serial Entrepreneurs Found Product-Market Fit: A New Video Series | In partnership with Pat Ryan Jr., INCISENT Labs, and Chicago Founders’ Stories, we recently launched a new video series – The Only Thing That Matters – featuring clips from hall of fame-level entrepreneurs discussing the insights that allow... |
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 is an extraordinarily exciting and inspiring experience. It is also equal parts terrifying, nerve wracking and exhausting. But infancy is of... |
29.08.2017 | Wise Apple, a Tech Enabled Ready-to-Eat Lunch Delivery Service for Kids Raises $3.6 Million Dollars In Funding | August 29, 2017 (Chicago) – Direct-to-consumer meal delivery service, Wise Apple, announced today that it has raised $3.6 million in seed financing led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Levy Family Partners, with participation from Chic... |
14.08.2017 | HealthJoy Secures Series A Financing Round to bring Artificial Intelligence-Driven Technology to Health Insurance Industry | CHICAGO, IL — Aug 14 2017 — Chicago, IL-based HealthJoy, Inc, an artificial intelligence-driven platform for employee benefits engagement and cost containment, announced today a $3 Million Series A round of financing. |
14.08.2017 | Why We Invested in HealthJoy | By Peter Christman & Ezra Galston |
01.08.2017 | Kin Insurance Launches Modern Home Insurance, Announces $4.0M Financing | 8/1/17 – CHICAGO – Kin Insurance, the company that has built home insurance from scratch so that customers can get the best insurance entire online, in minutes, launched today in its first state, Florida. Since Kin is built on modern techno... |
18.07.2017 | SpotHero Secures $30 Million to Accelerate Market Expansion, Business Partnerships and Product Innovation | With Strong Marketplace Track Records, Insight Venture Partners and Global Founders Capital Drive Series C Round |
24.05.2017 | Accel Leads $30M Series B into G2 Crowd to Accelerate Growth of Market Leading B2B Review Platform | Significant Investment Cements G2 Crowd as the Clear Leader in B2B Reviews |
09.05.2017 | eRelevance Secures $5.1 Million in Funding to Accelerate Sales, Marketing & Product Development | Funding builds on momentum of six consecutive quarters of triple-digit revenue growth and breakthrough success developing the customer marketing automation service category |
02.05.2017 | The Network for In-Home Care: Why We Invested in PreparedHealth | Just as our President is discovering the intricacies of the US healthcare system, the average citizen, particularly our seniors, is watching our system’s complexity begin to weigh on the creaking (and shifting) foundation on which it stands... |
13.04.2017 | SpotHero Acquires Leading Competitor Parking Panda, Securing Top Position in North American Parking Reservations | Acquisition Expands Business Into Canada and Fuels Strategic Focus On Convenience in B2B and Consumer Product Roadmaps |
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 iterative, and to launch an MVP as soon as they can. Fintech startups can be a different story. “In financial services,” says M1 Finance CEO and F... |
21.02.2017 | data.world Secures Nearly $19 Million in Venture Capital Funding | The social network for data people closes second round at 2X previous valuation |
07.02.2017 | How a SaaS Marketer Used Content Marketing to Launch a Brand and Educate an Industry | project44’s VP of Marketing Ally Lynch joined the company at the beta stage – and she, like many who meet CEO and Founder Jett McCandless, was quickly sold on the vision and massive opportunity the startup was tackling. project44 has the lo... |
01.02.2017 | GAN Integrity Inc. Raises $9 Million Led by Edison Partners | Accelerates Growth to Transform Corporate Compliance Management |
11.01.2017 | Children’s Apparel Service Mac & Mia Raises $3.0MM in Seed Funding to Continue Winning Back Hours of Time for Busy Parents | New kids apparel service is leading the charge in removing the friction from traditional shopping and replacing it with delight, discovery, personalization, and convenience. |
09.01.2017 | Catalytic’s Customer Success Exec on Being an Advocate for the Customer | When Andrew Thiermann was in his early 20s, he moved to Chicago from Paris, where he’d spent two years as a web and communications consultant for a major international organization. As he searched for jobs in the States he realized his prev... |
13.12.2016 | From Super Mario’s US Launch to New Mobile, Synchronous, Multi-Player Games: How Chicago’s Gaming Veteran Tim Harris has Watched the Industry Evolve | Tim Harris has had a hand in Chicago’s quietly ambitious gaming scene for over two decades, though his interest was seeded much earlier. A lifelong gamer and child-of-the-80s, Tim grew up as a self-described computer geek, playing on consol... |
22.11.2016 | Every Brand. Everywhere. | Nearly 25 years before Instacart was hatched and a decade prior to WebVan’s fall from grace, two brothers pondered a question. They wondered why a trip to the grocery store was required each and every time they needed food. The personal com... |
22.11.2016 | ItemMaster Secures $7.5M Series A Funding Led by Edison Partners | Funding Will Accelerate Growth of ItemMaster’s Key Offerings to Solve Dramatically Increasing Product Content Needs of CPG Brands and Retailers |
16.11.2016 | Designing Parking Magic | SpotHero’s Chief Product Officer Anthony Broad-Crawford grew up with an entirely different career focus: music. As part of an elite youth orchestra where “music was his life,” Anthony played trumpet, piano and guitar, with ambitions of cont... |
31.10.2016 | Chicago Ventures Closes $66M Fund II to Continue Investing in Seed Stage Tech Startups | Chicago Ventures, a seed stage venture capital firm that invests in tech-enabled startups, today announced the close of its $66M Chicago Ventures Fund II. With over $100M under management, the firm leads or participates in the first institu... |
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 Student Fellows program. |
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 at sharing unique perspectives, trading tips, and creating meaningful new connections between females from Chicago Ventures’ portfolio comp... |
21.09.2016 | Catalyze Raises $6.5 Million in Series B Financing to Meet the Growing Need of Trusted Connectivity within Enterprise Healthcare | Lewis & Clark Ventures led the round, joined by existing investors Arthur Ventures, Baird Venture Partners and Chicago Ventures |
19.09.2016 | How Havenly’s CTO Has Built a High-Performing Engineering Culture | A self-described “life-long nerd,” Havenly’s CTO Gabe Hesse loves making things. He’s a tinkerer who’s attracted to high-growth companies in industries ripe for technology disruption. Gabe’s career has spanned from transactional processing ... |
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 the 20th century. Unfortunately, the billions of dollars of goods that flow through Chicago’s roads, railways, airports, and waterways are sti... |
12.09.2016 | project44 Raises $10.5M in Series A to Bring Real-Time Visibility to the Supply Chain via APIs | New funding from Emergence Capital and Chicago Ventures will allow for further product growth |
31.08.2016 | How data.world Collected Over 120 User Tests While Still in Stealth | When CPO Jon Loyens and his co-founders Brett Hurt (CEO), Matt Laessig (COO), and Bryon Jacob (CTO) set out to build data.world, even with nearly a dozen startups under their belts (most notably with Brett as the Founder of Bazaarvoice, whe... |
11.08.2016 | How Shiftgig’s Team Scaled: Lessons from a Corporate Recruiter | Shiftgig’s Corporate Recruiter Justina Strnad has watched the Chicago-based company grow from a few dozen to nearly 180 employees across 12 cities in just two years. As part of the recruiting team she’s been instrumental in implementing pro... |
27.07.2016 | Predata, Predictive Intelligence Pioneer, Raises $3.25 Million Financing Round Led by Edison Partners | Next-Generation Predictive Analytics Firm Will Use Capital to Help Financial Institutions, Corporations and Government Agencies Gain Deeper Insight into Key Risk Events |
26.07.2016 | Predicting the New (Volatile) Normal: Unpacking Our Investment in Predata | On the eve of Britain’s June 23rd referendum to decide whether the country should leave the European Union, most polls, pundits, and analysts had coalesced around a Remain victory. The following day, the world watched in awe as they were pr... |