| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.09.2021 | LongJump invests $100K in first cohort of 'overlooked' Chicago startups | - |
| 02.07.2021 | Chicago startups raised $706M in June, minting 4 new unicorns | - |
| 01.06.2021 | Chicago startups raised $257M in May. Here are the top deals. | - |
| 30.04.2021 | Chicago startups raise nearly $1B in VC funding during April | - |
| 30.11.2020 | Chicago startups raised $30M in November | This is a roundup of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the last month. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
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| 30.10.2020 | Chicago startups raised $208M in October | This is a roundup of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the last month. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
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| 01.10.2020 | Chicago startups raised $225M in September | This is our roundup of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the last month. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
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| 01.07.2020 | Chicago startups raised $200M in June | This is our roundup of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the last month. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
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| 11.10.2018 | So Far This Year, Chicago Startups Raised More Than $620M In Late-Stage VC | 21 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
City Of The Big Shoulders? More like City Of The Big Rounds.
It’s just a few days into the final quarter of 2018, and Chicago’s late-stage startups are on a fundraising tear.
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| 11.07.2018 | 100 Chicago Startups Raised $751M In the First Half of 2018 | $58 billion: That’s the number of venture capital dollars invested in 3,912 companies across the U.S. so far in 2018, according to VC and M&A database Pitchbook.
In the Chicagoland area specifically, more than $751 million was invested ... |
| 01.12.2017 | Chicago Startups Raised $184M in Venture Funding in November | Chicago-area tech and startup companies brought in a significant amount of money in November, making for what should be a strong close to the year. Collectively, area tech and startup companies raised at least $184 million, based on public ... |
| 16.06.2015 | Techstars Buys UP Global, The Non-Profit Behind Startup Weekend | Techstars — the startup incubator that has built up a network of programs across the U.S. and Europe and specific verticals like health and education — is expanding once again. The company has acquired UP Global, the non-profit group that o... |
| 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 ... |
| 25.04.2013 | TechStars Chicago’s inaugural class targets fitness, parental controls, and dating | TechStars Chicago announced its summer 2013 class of startups, breaking in the popular accelerator’s new Windy City branch.
Ten companies were chosen from over 900 applicants, more than twice the number of submissions the incubator received... |
| 01.02.2013 | Excelerate Labs Is Now TechStars Chicago Startup Accelerator | Today, Excelerate Labs announced they have partnered with TechStars to rename the program TechStars Chicago. This is the first time that TechStars has partnered with an existing program in a new market as they usually create their own progr... |
| 30.08.2012 | Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups | Chicago’s local incubator, Excelerate Labs, held its demo day yesterday, with the program’s ten startups set to graduate. Excelerate, which offers startups $50,000 in convertible debt from New World Ventures (similar to The Start Fund model... |
| 22.08.2012 | Top 15 US Startup Accelerators Ranked; Y Combinator and TechStars on Top | Lately, you can’t scroll through Twitter or browse a tech blog without stumbling on another new startup accelerator or incubator program. And Tech Cocktail is no exception: we cover and promote these programs because they benefit entreprene... |
| 25.07.2012 | GiveForward Raises $2 Million For Crowd-sourced Donation Service | GiveForward, a crowdfunding site for people to raise money for loved ones during difficult times, announced a $2 million Series A round led by Founder Collective and First Round Capital, with Naval Ravikant and Firestarter Fund participatin... |
| 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... |
| 21.06.2012 | Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere | Startup accelerators continue to grow in popularity. There are now more than 200 around the world attracting twice as many applicants as they did just two years ago. But there’s a dirty little secret: A lot of accelerators are just spinning... |
| 26.04.2012 | Hub Ventures, Excelerate Labs, MuckerLab & DreamIt Announce New Startups | The startup accelerator scene is booming, and that means there will be days like today, when a bunch of news from the various incubators around the country hits all at the same time. Today, we’ve got the details from several of the newer pr... |
| 28.11.2011 | What comes next | Now is a great time to be an internet entrepreneur. While much of the global economy sputters, tech companies post growth numbers other industries haven’t seen in years. Their success hasn’t gone unnoticed, and the pace of tech-company crea... |
| 24.08.2011 | Why emerging markets need startup accelerators to produce gold | While I was living in Silicon Valley for a couple of months earlier this year, I had the opportunity to see how a number of the startup accelerators over there function, and also to speak to a number of tech entrepreneurs that passed throug... |
| 24.08.2011 | Why emerging markets need startup accelerators to produce gold | While I was living in Silicon Valley for a couple of months earlier this year, I had the opportunity to see how a number of the startup accelerators over there function, and also to speak to a number of tech entrepreneurs that passed throug... |
| 31.05.2011 | Inspired By The Start Fund, New World Ventures Offers Chicago Excelerate Startups $50K | Earlier this year, Yuri Milner and Ron Conway’s SV Angel announced a new fund that offers all Y Combinator startups $150,000 in convertible debt. Not only is The Start Fund a brilliant investment strategy, but the news was also a big win fo... |
| 02.05.2011 | Top 15 U.S. Startup Accelerators & Incubators Ranked; TechStars, Y Combinator Top Rankings | There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with pure co-working spaces) as they offer entrepreneurs a way to spend a few months laser focused on a... |
| 02.05.2011 | TechStars Beats Y Combinator, Ranked Best Accelerator Program in U.S. | A number of new startup accelerator and incubator programs have popped up lately, a response no doubt to the success of the Y Combinator and TechStars programs and the success of the programs’ participants. At some level, many of these prog... |
| 28.04.2011 | Excelerate Labs Announces Ten Startups To It’s 2011 Incubator | In it's second year, the Chicago startup accelerator Excelerate Labs has just announced its new class. The program runs from June to September and offers $15K to $20K in funding and mentorship throughout the summer months. Last year, Excele... |
| 14.02.2011 | GiveForward Raises $500K To Be The Kickstarter For Medical Expenses | GiveForward, an online fundraising tool for medical expenses, has raised $500,000 in funding from Tim Krauskopf, New World Ventures, David Cohen, Ed Chandler, Social Leverage and Excelerate Labs.
GiveForward, which was incubated in Chicago’... |
| 01.09.2010 | Hyde Park Angels Event Brings Globally-Known Experts to Chicago
| Investors from across the country found standing-room-only availability at a Hyde Park Angels event designed to stimulate investment activity in the Chicago region. The Angel Excelerator conference, presented by the Hyde Park Angels and Exc... |
| 11.07.2010 | Chicago's Excelerate Labs Graduates Nine Startups | We recently wrote about the launch of a Y Combinator and TechStars-like startup incubator in Chicago, Excelerate Labs. The program’s nine fledgling startups are set to graduate from the inaugural session of the incubator in a few weeks. Her... |
| 22.05.2010 | Excelerate Chicago Incubator Reveals 2010 Startups | With summer right around the corner, the Excelerate, Chicago startup incubator, has announced its first class of startup companies to receive funding. This year they supported ten startups which mostly consist of web and mobile based busine... |
| 20.03.2010 | Excelerate Labs Brings A Startup Incubator To Chicago | It seems that Y Combinator and TechStars-like incubators are popping up everywhere. BoomStartup just launched an incubator in Utah and TechStars is expanding to other cities in the U.S., as is The Founder Institute. Chicago has a new incuba... |
| 25.02.2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Chicago | Holding down the proverbial fort for the mid-west, Chicago, the Windy City, is the third largest city in the U.S. and the most populous city that doesn’t sit on an ocean coast. The city, which does, however, rest on the shore of Lake Michig... |
