Enterprise Works Incubator ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

East Central Illinois University Center

Enterprise Works is the Research Park’s 43,000-square-foot business incubator for early-stage tech firms. It is operated by the University of Illinois to help launch successful startup companies. The 30-plus startups that occupy the office suites and labs at Enterprise Works showcase the potential of innovation in our community. Most, but not all, have a connection to the University. Some have been founded by staff, students,faculty, while others have licensed technology from the UI. Ow...

60 Hazelwood Drive

Champaign, IL 6***

Phone：217-333-***

Contact：Laura Frerichs

Email：lfrerich**[ta]**inois.edu

http://www.**searchpark.illinois.edu/enterpriseworks

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First Analysis ?

First Analysis, founded in 1981, has a long-term commitment to its clients and industry sectors. Research is the foundation of everything we do. Our firm-wide team of about 40 investment professionals averages more than 15 years of investment and relevant industry experience. Each of our 15 research-focused investment professionals develops and maintains deep domain expertise in specific sectors, each of which belongs to one of our core areas of focus.

One South Wacker Drive

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-258-***

http://www.**rstanalysis.com/

7wire Ventures ?

The biggest problems need solving….7wire looks for, and invests in, innovative ideas and entrepreneurs that address three critical areas：health care, education, and energy. Through the creation of new businesses, investments in early and growth stage companies, and complementing funds with insight and experience, we transform great ideas into world class companies. 7wire Works with business incubators, seed and early-stage investors, and growth equity firms to create the best opportunity for...

444 N. Michigan Ave

10th Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

Contact：Shawn Ellis

Email：shawn**[ta]**reventures.com

Http://www.**ireventures.com

7wire Ventures

Abundant Venture Partners ?

Abundant Venture Partners is a purpose based incubator focused on service based companies in media and healthcare. The partnership was formed with core beliefs that drive our actions and investment：It is still possible to do well while doing good; if it is big enough to care, it is big enough to share; we are accountable to ourselves, one another, and for the world around us; diverse perspectives with shared purpose is the best way to create value. We seek to create

invest in early stage com...

4043 North Ravenswood Ave.

Suite***

Chicago, IL 6***

http://www.**undantventurepartners.com/

Adams Street Partners, LLC ?

Adams Street Partners is an employee-owned private equity firm with the goal of generating exceptional investment returns. Adams Street Partners operates as one cohesive global team, integrating expertise in three disciplines：primary, secondary and direct investments. Adams Street Partners manages over $22 billion of committed capital for institutional investors. With a globally integrated investment platform, we are committed to understanding the entire private equity landscape and accessing t...

One North Wacker Drive

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 60606-***

Phone：312-553-***

http://www.**amsstreetpartners.com/index.html

Anderson Pacific Corporation ?

Anderson Pacific Corporation (APC) is a Chicago-based private investment firm specializing in the media and telecommunications industry. The firm is founded by Kenneth D. Anderson, a principal in numerous equity transactions since the late 1970s. Anderson is assisted by a team of inside and outside professionals with extensive experience in private equity, venture capital, management, accounting and law. While participants in several non-telecom industry transactions in the past, the firm has ex***

NBC Tower

455 N. Cityfront Plaza Dr.

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-951-***

http://www.**dersonpacific.com/

Apex Venture Partners ?

Apex Venture Partners, established in 1987, is one of the oldest venture capital firms in Mid-America. The firm has invested in over 150 companies throughout the United States. Apex's guiding investment philosophy is to provide exceptional returns for our investors by partnering with entrepreneurs and executives to build significant value in their companies.

225 West Washington Street

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-857-***

http://www.**exvc.com/

ARCH Venture Partners ?

ARCH Venture Partners invests in the development of seed and early stage advanced technology companies that have the potential to grow rapidly into successful businesses. We invest primarily in companies we co-found with leading scientists and entrepreneurs, concentrating on bringing to market disruptive innovations in life sciences, physical sciences and information technology, and specialize in the spaces where they converge. We enjoy special recognition as a leader in the successful commerc...

8725 W. Higgins Rd.

Suite***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：773-380-***

http://www.**chventure.com/

****IA ?

****IA is an accelerator dedicated to helping healthcare providers successfully implement emerging technology-enabled products and services. Our mission is to advance the innovation agenda of healthcare providers while saving them time, resources, and capital. We serve as an extender to our members’ executive teams, helping them to identify, evaluate, select, and implement the best emerging solutions that align with their innovation priorities.

Chicago, IL

Baird Venture Partners ?

Baird Venture Partners makes investments in early- and expansion-stage companies in the Business Services and Healthcare/Life Sciences sectors. We employ a thesis-driven approach to investing that allows us to gain insight on industry-changing trends and identify emerging, next-generation business models. We invest in companies where our expertise, capital and broad network of resources complement management’s objectives and strategy.

227 West Monroe Street

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：888-792-***

http://www.**irdprivateequity.com/private-equity/baird-venture-partners.aspx

Batterson Venture Capital ?

Batterson Venture Capital, LLC's goal is to create a collaborative relationship with entrepreneurs built on a foundation of mutual partnership and trust. This foundation is the cornerstone upon which our successes are built from and true innovation continues to thrive. BVC’s objective is to consistently deliver compelling venture capital investment opportunities to high-net-worth investors.

303 W Madison St

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-269-***

http://www.**ttersonvc.com/#&panel1-1

Battery Ventures ?

You’ve got a great idea, a winning product, an amazing team, a great business. You have choices. There are hundreds of firms who could invest in your business. So why choose Battery? Yes, we have a track record of success backing breakthrough companies. We’ve been through hundreds of IPOs and M&A events. We have top quartile funds. We have 30 years of experience. We’ve raised $4B since inception and are investing a $750M fund, so yes, we have deep pockets along with big Rol...

Reservoir Woods

930 Winter Street

Suite ***

Waltham, MA 0***

Phone：781-478-***

http://www.**ttery.com/index.html

Baxter Ventures ?

Baxter Ventures identifies companies with promising, early-stage technologies, products and/or therapies, and provides them with the capital and expertise needed to drive successful innovation. Baxter Ventures was created in 2011 by Baxter International Inc., which has an 80-year legacy of healthcare innovation and saving and sustaining lives worldwide.

One Baxter Parkway

Deerfield, IL 60015-***

http://www.**xter.com/about_baxter/scientific_excellence/baxter_ventures/index.html

BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners ?

BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, L.P. manages $300 million in capital across two funds. It is sponsored by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, an association of independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. The fund is backed by 24 individual Blue Entities and invests in promising emerging companies of strategic relevance to Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. Through an exclusive arrangement, management of the Fund is shared between participating Blue Plans, the Blue Cross and...

225 N. Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL 6***

http://www.**bsvp.com/

Breakout Labs ?

Thiel Foundation

Breakout Labs is the Thiel Foundation’s newest program. Through Breakout Labs, we’re reshaping the way early-stage science is funded, so that early-stage companies can advance their most radical ideas. Venture capital firms want research that can be quickly brought to market, and federal funding offers little room for risky, unproven ideas. We are jumping into this funding gap to energize innovative research. Breakout Labs is not a typical foundation grant-we are a revolutionar...

1 Letterman Drive

Building C

Suite***

San Francisco, CA 9***

http://www.**eakoutlabs.org/home.html

Capital Strategy Management Company ?

Capital Strategy serves a wide range of early stage high and medium technology industries as well as service firms, with capital for start-up, expansion,repositioning, as well as strategic and financial advisory expertise. Our portfolio companies and clients are throughout the United States, with a concentration in the upper Midwest. The firm typically forms an advisory team to work with each portfolio company / client in conjunction with providing required capital infusions. The firm's equi...

233 South Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606-***

Phone：312-444-***

Contact：Eric E. von Bauer

Email：evb**[ta]**italstrategymanagement.com

http://www.**pitalstrategymanagement.com/

CapX Partners ?

We are a vital option for middle-market companies, private equity sponsored and venture-capital-backed firms that need equipment leasing, loans and secured capital for mission-critical initiatives. These clients turn to us as a sophisticated partner who looks beyond the boundaries of traditional financing options. They know we take the time to understand the whole story and create opportunities to keep the project moving forward.

155 N Wacker Dr.# ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-893-***

http://www.**pxpartners.com/

Ceres Venture Fund ?

Ceres Venture Fund, L.P. is an established Chicago-based venture capital fund dedicated to funding high growth companies located in the Midwest in their early stages of growth. As growth-oriented investors, the fund seeks to partner with entrepreneurs of proven ability and provide them with the resources needed to achieve extraordinary success.

500 Davis Street

Suite***

Evanston, IL 6***

Phone：847-492-***

http://www.**resventurefund.com/

Chancellor's Innovation Fund ?

University of Illinois at Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago is launching a $10 million fund to help inventions advance from the research stage toward potential commercial opportunities, becoming the latest academic institution in the area to channel increased resources toward homegrown startup activity. The Chancellor's Innovation Fund will allocate $2 million a year for five years. Each year, $1 million will go toward proof-of-concept funding and the other $1 million will be used for equity seed investments in compa...

1853 West Polk Street

446 College of Medicine West

Chicago, IL 60612-***

Phone：312-996-***

Contact：Wade Green

Email：greenw**[ta]**.uic.edu

http://www.**m.uic.edu/articles/2013-04-26/uic-chancellors-innovation-fund-highlighted-chicag