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| 22.03.2024 | Chicago startup Fuel Me lands new funding from Pritzker Group Venture Capital | - |
| 22.03.2024 | Fuel Me: Fuel Procurement And Management Company Raises $18 Million | Fuel Me, a rapidly growing fuel procurement and management platform, announced the successful close of its $18 million Series A financing co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners. Other new investors include Bes... |
| 15.06.2023 | Governor Pritzker Announces $6 Million in Funding for Energy Transition Navigators Program | ILLINOIS, June 15 - Eligible Community-Based Providers Can Apply to Serve as Energy Transition Navigators
SPRINGFIELD - Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) launched $6 million in fund... |
| 21.04.2023 | Gov. Pritzker Announces $16 Million in Funding for Climate Works Pre-Apprenticeship, Barrier Reduction Programs | ILLINOIS, April 21 - Eligible Training Providers Can Apply to Run CEJA Pre-Apprenticeship Programs Today
SPRINGFIELD - Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today launched $10 million i... |
| 12.04.2023 | Former Outcome Health Execs Found Guilty of 47 Counts of Fraud | First Theranos, now Outcome Health — it doesn’t seem like the digital health sector is the best place to “fake it ’til you make it.”
On Tuesday, a federal jury found three former Outcome Health executives guilty of multiple counts of fraud.... |
| 08.03.2023 | Half of Sequoia Capital's VC funds since 2018 have posted losses for the University of California's endowment | Sequoia Capital's global leader, Roelof Botha Brian Ach/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 28.07.2021 | Pritzker Private Capital : Raises $2.7 Billion From Like-Minded Families and Institutions, Completing One of the Largest Family Investment Vehicles Raised in North America | Pritzker Private Capital ("PPC"), a leader in family direct investing, today announced the final closing of PPC III at its hard cap of $2.7 billion. Oversubscribed and substantially exceeding its original target of $2.0 billion, P... |
| 17.03.2019 | 12 Chicago VCs You Should Know About | Chicago is quietly becoming a hotbed of venture capital that fuels technology startups — not just in Chicago but across the country and in a wide range of industries. For example, did you know that Calm, SpaceX, and Coinbase all received fu... |
| 11.01.2019 | Time is running out for healthcare startups to apply to the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect competition! | The deadline to apply for the 2019 competition was Jan. 15 but has been extended to February 8. Click on this link to apply!
In order to participate companies must fulfill at least one of these requirements:
Raised at least $1 million
Raise... |
| 10.01.2019 | Term Sheet — Thursday, January 10 | CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
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Today, Axios reported that Fidelity will lead a $300 million funding round in e-scooter startup, Bird. Well, that’s a hea... |
| 09.01.2019 | Pritzker Group Venture Capital Promotes Three | Chicago, IL-based Pritzker Group Venture Capital (PGVC) promoted three.
These include:
– Sonia Nagar to partner,
– Ty Findley to vice president, and
– Eric Duboe to senior associate.
Sonia Nagar, who joined PGVC as a vice president in 2016,... |
| 08.11.2018 | Plus One Announces $8.3M Series A | Plus One Robotics, Inc., a 3-D vision and controls developer for robotic automation in the logistics and e-commerce markets, has announced the appointment of David Scheffrahn as vice president of sales. In his role, Mr. Scheffrahn will lead... |
| 08.11.2018 | Plus One Announces $8.3M Series A | Plus One Robotics, Inc., a 3-D vision and controls developer for robotic automation in the logistics and e-commerce markets, has announced the appointment of David Scheffrahn as vice president of sales. In his role, Mr. Scheffrahn will lead... |
| 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’ |
| 05.10.2018 | Chicago’s Startups Continue to Lead the Nation in Returns | PitchBook revealed its 2018 Chicago VC Ecosystem report, released in conjunction with ChicagoNEXT’s Chicago Venture Summit. This report finds that Chicago continues to outpace other U.S. venture ecosystems — including the Bay Area — in medi... |
| 03.10.2018 | Chicago’s startups continue to lead the nation in returns | Today, PitchBook revealed its 2018 Chicago VC Ecosystem report, released in conjunction with ChicagoNEXT’s Chicago Venture Summit. This report finds that Chicago continues to outpace other U.S. venture ecosystems — including the Bay Area — ... |
| 03.10.2018 | Chicago’s startups continue to lead the nation in returns | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today, PitchBook revealed its 2018 Chicago VC Eco... |
| 27.09.2018 | HqO raises $6.6M to help landlords offer tech perks to tenants | Accomplice, JLL Spark, Navitas Capital and more participate in Seed round
WeWork institutionalized the idea of work places with amenities. It was a playbook started, or at least accelerated, by high-tech companies, like Google, whose headqu... |
| 18.09.2018 | Apprentice.io raises $8 million for conversational augmented reality platform | Apprentice.io, creator of a conversational augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has raised $8 million in funding.
Pritzker Group Venture Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors Silverto... |
| 18.09.2018 | Apprentice.io raises $8 million for conversational augmented reality platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apprentice.io, creator of a conversational augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has raised $8 million in f... |
| 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 |
| 07.11.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, November 7 | THE LITTLE PINK PILL
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| 05.10.2017 | Providing medical education through virtual reality video games, Level Ex raises $11M | Simulator device businesses catering to the medical education industry are finding a receptive audience with the relatively high cost of cadavers, the increased ethical sensitivities (and expense) of using animals for training and the need ... |
| 03.10.2017 | Level Ex Announces $11 Million in Series A | Level Ex, creator of the first professional video game for physicians, announced $11 million in a Series A round of financing led by 4490 Ventures. JAZZ Venture Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and additional investors also particip... |
| 30.08.2017 | Wise Apple gets $3.6M despite food-delivery coma | Another food-delivery startups joins the very, very crowded space
Parents: Do you find yourself rushing constantly, intending to prepare the best meals for your children, only to resort to PB&J again, or left-over pizza and gummy bears.... |
| 15.08.2017 | George Couto Joins Pritzker Group Private Capital as VP of Services Team | Industry veteran George Couto has joined Pritzker Group Private Capital as vice president of the Services team.
Led by Ryan Roberts, investment partner, and Gregg Kaplan, operating partner, the team invests in and operates companies across ... |
| 15.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, August 15 | OPEN MIC
It’s the middle of August, the latest issue of Fortune is finally closed, and I am all out of things to say about the latest wrinkle in Uber’s neverending soap opera. (That wrinkle, by the way, comes in the form of an open letter f... |
| 18.07.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, July 18 | WHERE THE BEER FLOWS LIKE WINE
Hello from Aspen again. Yesterday kicked off day one of Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference. Some highlights:
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| 12.04.2017 | The Family Office Index: 38 Chicago Family Offices Investing in Tech Startups | With traditional venture capital, angel investors, private equity and newer models like equity crowdfunding, entrepreneurs today have more access to capital than ever before. Now, add to this list: the growing prominence of family investmen... |
| 23.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, March 23 | BREATHE
Term Sheet readers may remember a time several years ago (when I was merely filling in as your daily columnist), we analyzed how hard it would be for an investor to short the startup market. We concluded, in short: It’s really hard.... |
| 26.01.2017 | Pritzker Group Private Capital Hires Ryan Roberts as Services Team Investment Partner | Chicago, IL-based Pritzker Group Private Capital hired Ryan Roberts as investment partner and co-head of the group’s services team, which focuses on investing in and operating companies in various industries within the services sector.
Robe... |
| 25.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 25 | NEVERMIND!
Twelve hours ago, I was prepared to write a straightforward, borderline boring analysis of the AppDynamics IPO, slated for this morning. Then …a catalyst changed things. Specifically, Qatalyst Group.
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| 10.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday January 10 | ALL AI EVERYTHING
Jocelyn Goldfein has worked on some of Silicon Valley’s most iconic products: She spent seven years as an engineering leader at VMware and four years at Facebook. She even interned at Netscape. In 2014, she started angel i... |
| 09.12.2016 | Announcing the 2016 50 on Fire Winners | This year, Chicago Inno published more than 1,300 stories, wrote over 260 newsletters (The Beat!), hosted 12+ events, attended many more, and carried countless conversations. All focused on one thing - Chicago innovation.
And through all of... |
| 29.11.2016 | Pritzker Group Venture Capital Expands Los Angeles VC Office | Pritzker Group Venture Capital is expanding its Los Angeles venture capital office.
Partner Gabe Greenbaum has relocated from the firm’s Chicago office to Los Angeles where he will lead the PGVC office in Los Angeles. Joining him from Chica... |
| 29.11.2016 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, November 29 | Today in Fallen Unicorns
Two shareholders have filed a class action lawsuit against Theranos, accusing the company of fraud and negligence. I believe it’s not terribly common to see private companies involved in class action shareholder law... |
| 07.10.2016 | New Investment Series: TransparentCareer | The Hyde Park Angels “New Investment Series” profiles our most recent investments by examining the investment process and the individual company’s future trajectory from two perspectives: the portfolio company’s CEO and the HPA leader who m... |
| 09.09.2016 | New Investment Series: Catalytic | The Hyde Park Angels “New Investment Series” profiles our most recent investments by examining the investment process and the individual company’s future trajectory from two perspectives: the portfolio company’s CEO and the HPA leader who m... |
| 25.08.2016 | DroneDeploy Adds to 2016’s Drone Funding Total with $20m Series B | Software for drones provider DroneDeploy has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by tech investment firm Scale Venture Partners and ExactTarget co-founder Scott Dorsey’s fund. Venture studio developers High Alpha Capital also partici... |
| 18.07.2016 | Pritzker Group Venture Capital Promotes Two | Pritzker Group Venture Capital has promoted Gabe Greenbaum to partner and Peter Liu to vice president.
Mr. Greenbaum, who joined Pritzker Group in 2012, has led a number of the firm’s investments across enterprise software, marketplace tech... |
| 08.04.2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 8, 2016 | Getui bagged $180M; Twiggle secured $12.5M; KiteDesk completed $6M funding round
RiskRecon landed seed-round financing led by General Catalyst Partners and several private investors. The funding will enable RiskRecon to expand its product d... |
| 19.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 19, 2016 | Indigo secured $56M; Athentek raised $7M; BUX closed $6.9M funding
AlmaConnect, a social network based on private alumni networks focused on helping an alum/student get help from his/her alumni network, raised a Pre-Series A round of fundin... |
| 03.02.2016 | Pritzker Group Venture Capital Adds Sonia Nagar as Vice President | Pritzker Group Venture Capital, the venture capital unit of Pritzker Group, has just added Sonia Nagar as vice president.
Based in Pritzker Group Venture Capital’s Chicago office, Nagar brings experience across mobile, digital media, produc... |
| 26.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 26, 2016 | Grovo announced $40 funding; Vidyard nabbed $35M; Cedexis closed $22M Series B funding
Grovo, a SaaS-based learning management system (LMS) for companies, today announced that it has closed $40 million in a Series C funding round led by exi... |
| 26.01.2016 | HopSkipDrive, The Ridesharing Startup For Kids, Grabs $10.2M In Series A Funding | HopSkipDrive, The LA-based “Uber for Kids”, has closed a $10.2M Series A round co-led by FirstMark Capital and UpFront Ventures, with participation from existing investors BBG Ventures and 1776, and new investors Greycroft Partners and Prit... |
| 12.01.2016 | Using facial recognition and AI to confirm medication adherence, AiCure raises $12.25M | The developers of AiCure’s technology have likened it to a personal trainer in a gym working directly with a client to achieve their goals. It involves facial recognition and motion-sensors in a mobile device. It records patients taking the... |
| 08.12.2015 | Technimark Acquires Ci Medical Technologies | Technimark, a Asheboro, N.C.-based Pritzker Group company and global manufacturer of custom rigid plastic packaging and components, acquired Ci Medical Technologies, a Latrobe, Pennsylvania-based specialty medical component manufacturer.
Al... |
| 24.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 24, 2015 | Placester secured $27M; Shiftgig raised $22M; Fortscale announced $16M funding
Lenda, a first platform that allows homeowners to refinance their mortgage completely online, today announced the close of $2 million in seed funding led by Lake... |
| 20.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 20, 2015 | Le Tote secured $15M; MindTickle landed $12.5M; Hover raised $6M funding
Hover has announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A financing round. Alsop Louie Partners led the round with participation from existing investors, includi... |
| 14.09.2015 | 10 Chicago VC Firms You Need to Know About | Chicago is usually towards the top of the list when it comes to startup hubs in the United States. It's no surprise that Tech.Co had its first events in that city, (back when we were simply known as Tech Cocktail), providing demo space and ... |
| 27.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 27, 2015 | Yuneec bagged $60M; MediBeacon landed $22.4M; Remerge closed $3M
Mobile App Retargeting startup Remerge today announced a $3 million Series A round led by Point Nine Capital, along with Valor, VC Fonds Technologie Berlin, German Startups Gr... |
| 19.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 19, 2015 | Kik raised $50M; SpotHero pulled $20M; Thrive Bioscience closed a $4M
If you thought unicorn fever was coming to an end, I'm sorry to break it to you, but it's still out there. There have been 18 new billion companies in the first half of t... |
| 31.07.2015 | Pritzker Group Private Capital Acquires PLZ Aeroscience from Olympus Partners | Pritzker Group Private Capital acquired Chicago-based PLZ Aeroscience, a North American specialty aerosol product manufacturer, from Olympus Partners.
Pritzker Group Private Capital is investing alongside the PLZ management team, which will... |
| 29.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 29, 2015 | Twilio closed $130M; Mereo BioPharma secured $119; AltspaceVR raised $10.3M
AltspaceVR, a software company that uses virtual reality to provide a new communication platform, raised a $10.3 million round of funding. Investors in the round in... |
| 01.07.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. A16Z, HP, and INKEF Capital give $30M to Shapeways
Shapeways, a service and marketplace that lets users upload, download, an... |
| 01.07.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 17.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 17, 2015 | LeadPages secured $27M; Doctor On Demand closed $50M; Mapbox landed $52.6M
Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides video visits with board-certified physicians on a patient's smartphone closed a $50 million round of Series B fi... |
| 17.06.2015 | Mapbox Raises $52.6M Led By DFJ To Be The “Map Layer” For All Apps | With questions swirling over who may end up buying Nokia’s mapping division Here, a startup trying to disrupt it and other big boys like Google has raised some major funding. Mapbox, a developer of customizable maps used by third-party apps... |
| 03.06.2015 | Pritzker Group Private Capital Acquires Entact | Pritzker Group Private Capital acquired Entact, a Westmont, Ill.-based provider of environmental remediation services to the private sector, from Austin Ventures and TGF Management Corp.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Entact’s ma... |
| 07.01.2015 | Apervita Completes $18M Series A Round of Funding | Apervita, Inc. (formerly known as Pervasive Health, Inc.), a Chicago, Illinois-based health analytics marketplace, completed an $18m Series A round of funding.
The round was led by GE Ventures and Baird Capital with participation from Pritz... |
| 12.12.2014 | Pervasive Health raising $26 million to democratize health analytics for hospitals | Pervasive Health was founded by Paul Magelli, Rick Halton, and Geoff Phillips, in 2012. Magelli and Phillips previously worked for Nokia Siemens after it acquired their UK-based mobile communications business, Apertio, for $240 million. Ape... |
| 11.11.2014 | Learning-Focused Digital Destination Curiosity.com Announces Ownership Change and Series A Funding Led by Discovery Communications and Pritzker Group | Discovery & Pritzker Group Venture Capital Joined by Origin Ventures, Chicago Ventures and Corazon Capital as Investors, Founder Gabe Vehovsky to Continue as CEO |
| 20.10.2014 | The Midwest Is On Track For Its Strongest Year In Startup Investing As “The Rest” Rises | From Chicago’s city of big shoulders to the new businesses bolstering Detroit’s renaissance; in Cleveland and Cincinnati and Kansas City and St. Louis, startup economies are flourishing across the Midwest.
The proof is in events like Steve ... |
| 22.10.2013 | SMS Assist Raises $45M in Funding | SMS Assist, a Chicago, IL-based advanced mobile and cloud-based facilities maintenance technology company, raised $45m in funding.
Pritzker Group Venture Capital, formerly New World Ventures, made the investment, which brought the total amo... |
| 22.10.2013 | Cloud-based Facilities Services Provider SMS Assist Receives $45 Million Investment from Pritzker Group Venture Capital | Follows Several Recent Integrated Facilities Maintenance Contracts with Multi-Site National Retailers
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 22, 2013–
Pritzker Group Venture Capital, formerly New World Ventures, today announced it invested $45 mil... |
| - | LA Venture: Pritzker’s Matt McCall Advice to VCs on Managing Crisis: ‘Put on Your Own Mask First’ | On this episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, hear Matt McCall discuss his journey into entrepreneurship and wearing life like "a loose sweater."
McCall is well-known to the L.A. venture community as a partner at the Pritzker Group... |
| - | Pervasive Health raising $26 million to democratize health analytics for hospitals | There is a huge appetite for big data in healthcare not only to get the best assessment on the condition of their patients but also to give hospitals a better understanding of how they stack up to the competition and where they need to impr... |
| - | Providing medical education through virtual reality video games, Level Ex raises $11M | Medical education business Level Ex, which melds the worlds of medical education and virtual reality video games, has closed an $11 million Series A round. Sam Glassenberg, founder and CEO of Level Ex, said in an email that the funding woul... |
| - | Time is running out for healthcare startups to apply to the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect competition! | There’s never been a more exciting time in healthcare, particularly for entrepreneurs. Investment in digital health reached $14.2 billion last year, according to StartUp Health. Life science companies raised $23.3 billion across 1,308 deals... |
| - | Using facial recognition and AI to confirm medication adherence, AiCure raises $12.25M | AiCure, a company that combines video facial recognition and artificial intelligence to confirm that patients have taken their medication has raised a $12.25 million Series A round, according to a company statement. The fundraise underscore... |
