| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.01.2025 | Twentyeight Health: A New Dawn for Women’s Healthcare | Twentyeight Health is making waves in the ocean of women’s healthcare. With a fresh infusion of $10 million in Series A funding, the company is poised to expand its reach and services. This NYC-based digital-first platform is on a mission t... |
| 07.01.2025 | Twentyeight Health Secures $10M to Expand Access to Affordable Women’s Healthcare | What You Should Know:
– Twentyeight Health, a digital-first women’s healthcare platform raises $10M in a Series A funding round led by Seae Ventures, with participation from Impact America Fund, The Social Entrepreneurs’ Fund, RH Capital, I... |
| 17.05.2024 | Revolutionizing Healthcare Coordination with Watershed Health | A deep dive into how Watershed Health is transforming the healthcare industry with its real-time care coordination solutions.
In a world where healthcare is often fragmented and disjointed, Watershed Health is making waves by securing $13.6... |
| 14.05.2024 | Watershed Health Secures $13.6M to Tackle Uncoordinated Care Crisis | What You Should Know:
– Watershed Health, a New Orleans, LA-based provider of real-time care coordination solutions raises $13.6M in funding led by First Trust Capital Partners with participation from FCA Venture Partners, Create Health Ven... |
| 16.05.2023 | Pear Suite Raises $2.5M for SDoH-Driven Care Navigation Platform to Empower AAPI Communities | What You Should Know:
Pear Suite, a digital health company empowering community health workers (CHWs) to improve health in Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and address social determinants of health (SDOH) raises $2.5M ... |
| 03.11.2021 | PadSplit, Inc. announced that it has received $20.5 million in funding from Core Innovation Capital LLC, Impact Engine, Citigroup Inc., Alate Partners, Mark Cuban Companies, Cox Enterprises, Inc. and ... | On November 3, 2021, PadSplit, Inc. closed the transaction. The company received $2,000,000 in its second tranche bringing the total gross proceeds raised in the transaction to $20,500,000. The transaction will include participation from Co... |
| 19.10.2020 | Impact Engine raises $31.5M PE fund | Impact Engine, a Chicago VC firm that invests in startups that provide a positive impact on the world, just announced a new private equity fund that aims to invest in growth-stage companies and buyout funds.
Impact Engine said Monday that i... |
| 18.11.2019 | Impact Engine Closes $25M Fund to Back Social Impact Startups | Impact Engine, a Chicago VC firm that invests in for-profit startups focused on providing a positive impact on the world, has raised a new fund to back more companies that measure how much good they do in addition to their bottom line.
Impa... |
| 22.03.2019 | 11 Under-The-Radar Chicago VCs You Should Know About | In my most-recent Forbes article, I shared about 12 Chicago-based VCs that are behind hot startups both within our region, like G2 Crowd, and beyond, like SpaceX. These firms tend to get a lot of buzz and make national headlines, but they a... |
| 15.03.2018 | Illinois serves as an example of how women can thrive as venture capitalists in the Midwest | Female representation in tech is low, and it’s not changing.
According to a recent survey of 1,045 startups conducted by Silicon Valley Bank, 57 percent of startups have no female executives, and 71 percent of startups have no female board ... |
| 21.11.2017 | Co-Working in Every Neighborhood: Chicago's 120+ Shared Work Spaces | Picture this: You’re an entrepreneur with a great idea, a few employees and a whole lot of potential. Now you just need an office.
Turns out you’ve hit the the office space jackpot if you’re building a company in Chicago. Over the last few ... |
| 08.11.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, November 8 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Snap revealed some worse-than-expected earnings in the third quarter and a $40 million Spectacles flop during its earnings call on Tuesday. CEO Evan Spiegel noted that the company will redesign the app “to make it easi... |
| 07.05.2017 | Jason Kunesh of Public Good on How Bands Are Just Like Startups | Jason Kunesh is a cofounder and CEO of Public Good Software, a startup aiming to make donating to non-profits as easy as ordering something on Amazon. Before starting PGS, Jason was the Director of UX for Obama's 2012 reelection campaign an... |
| 13.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, April 13 | FEELING TOPPY
Today Yext will go public on NYSE under the symbol YEXT. It’s a small IPO, valuing the company at around $940 million. Last night the company boosted pricing by $1 a share to $11 a share, for a total raise of $115.5 million.
P... |
| 13.04.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: SEC Filing Reveals Freight Farms Has Raised $5.7m Towards Larger Series B | Freight Farms, the startup growing lettuce inside shipping containers, has raised $5.7 million in an $8 million round, according to a SEC filing. Since the startup raised $3.7 million in Series A funding in 2014, this could be its Series B ... |
| 12.04.2017 | Full Harvest raises $2 million to stop farmers from tossing ‘ugly’ fruit and veggies | Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based startup, has raised $2 million in seed funding to reduce food waste at the farm level. Founded by Christine Moseley, formerly the head of business development for cold-pressed juice makers Organic Avenue,... |
| 12.04.2017 | Full Harvest Raises $2m Seed Round for Food Waste Reduction Platform | Full Harvest, an online platform selling food seconds to businesses, has closed a $2 million seed round led by Wireframe Ventures. BBG Ventures, Early Impact Ventures, Impact Engine, early stage agtech VC Radicle, and a collection of angel ... |
| 06.09.2016 | A Dorm Room Entrepreneur's Guide to the Chicago Tech Ecosystem | World changing ventures from Facebook to Dropbox, as well as local startups Moneythink to UProspie, were started by university students. And as entrepreneurial energy on campus is only growing, we have to wonder: who will be the next dorm r... |
| 09.08.2016 | Workit Health raises $1.1M in bid to go beyond digital version of addiction recovery program | The company, which is taking part in the Healthbox Studios, Los Angeles cohort, attracted investment from institutional and angel investors. Montage Ventures and Lux Capital led the seed round, but Workit also secured funding from Invest De... |
| 29.06.2016 | Chicago’s Impact Engine Raises $10M Impact Investment Fund | Chicago's Impact Engine is undergoing a change that could drastically impact the Chicago entrepreneurial community. Today, they announced the raise of a new $10 million impact investment fund to better support and scale early-stage, tech-fo... |
| 29.06.2016 | Impact Engine Launches $10M Impact Investment Fund | Chicago, IL-based Impact Engine has launched a $10m impact investment fund.
Limited partners include over 80 professionals comprising venture capitalists Matt McCall (Pritzker Group) and Kevin Willer (Chicago Ventures), entrepreneurs Mike E... |
| 29.06.2016 | Impact Engine closes its accelerator and a $10 million impact fund | An accelerator that backed for-profit, for-good ventures, Impact Engine, is abandoning the bootcamp approach and shifting its focus to investing in these startups as a seed fund, according to CEO and Partner Jessica Droste Yagan.
Based in C... |
| 09.03.2016 | A Comprehensive List of Women Founders In Chicago Tech | The tech and startup world has long been a boys club. Despite making up half the population and almost 60% of the labor force, women only account for 30% of the US tech industry.
And the number of female startup founders is even lower. Only... |
| 03.03.2016 | 9 tech leaders you should meet in Chicago | Chicago has one of the fastest growing tech, innovation and entrepreneurship communities in the country, says Bill Fienup.
“Every year a new incubator launches here that targets a new sector,” he said. He speaks on good authority.
Fienup is... |
| 26.02.2016 | Who Invests in Social Impact
| The idea of “making an impact” has exploded into our everyday vernacular. Millennials want to make an impact in their personal and professional lives, startups want to make an impact on the world, and investors want to provide the financial... |
| 28.07.2015 | The Hyde Park Angels Partner Network
Industry Partners Program
Corporate Sponsors Program
Community Partners Program
Cornerstone Partners | The Hyde Park Angels Partner Network is a comprehensive network of businesses, venture capitalists and community partners that collaborate with Hyde Park Angels to provide entrepreneurs the relationships and resources they need to be succes... |
| 17.07.2015 | New Money: These Chicago Companies Raised Millions This Week | Here are the Chicago companies that made deals this week:
AdYapper
Deal: $4.5 million
Investors: Led by KGC Capital, with investments from Techstars' Bullet Time Ventures, and BW Capital.
What they do: AdYapper is a Chicago startup that hel... |
| 05.05.2015 | Impact Engine Launches Chicago's First Angel Group for Social Startups | Since its launch in 2012, Impact Engine - the Chicago-based fund and accelerator for for-profit businesses with social, environmental, or civic missions - has invested in and incubated nearly 23 early-stage companies. Today, the organizatio... |
| 31.01.2015 | How to build a world-saving startup | Here’s a depressing fact — most startups fail. That’s not just for web startups, but all startup businesses of any kind.
If you’re a do-gooder, it’s even harder.
Social good startups have the odds stacked against them. Most companies focus ... |
| 31.01.2015 | How to build a world-saving startup | 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 depressing fact — most startups fail. Th... |
| 29.06.2013 | Top Chicago accelerators and incubators | Chicago's up and coming tech scene aided by numerous accelerators
We here at Vator have recently been taking you on a tour of some of the biggest accelerators and incubators around the country. We've, of course, covered some of the biggest ... |
| 27.08.2012 | TaskRabbit Adds Ebay Vet Lorrie Norrington & OpenTable Founder Chuck Templeton To Board | TaskRabbit, the labor marketplace that lets people outsource their errands and to-dos, is officially announcing the addition of two notable new board members today: eBay vet Lorrie Norrington and OpenTable Founder Chuck Templeton.
Norringto... |
| 10.08.2012 | Chicago’s accelerator for world-changing startups welcomes its first batch | 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!
OpenTable founder Chuck Templeton has launched Im... |
| 22.06.2012 | Chicago’s Impact Engine Accelerator Is Looking For Environmentally & Socially Minded Startups | Impact Engine is a newly launched venture accelerator in Chicago designed to attract both environmentally and socially-minded businesses that want to – well, you know — make an impact on today’s world. The belief is that you don’t have to b... |
| - | Workit Health raises $1.1M in bid to go beyond digital version of addiction recovery program | Workit Health, a digital health business geared to people in various stages of substance use, has raised $1 million in seed funding, according to a news release on its website. The investment will be used to scale its model so it can be bet... |
