Chicago Growth Partners ?

We founded Chicago Growth Partners to help entrepreneurs achieve their goals and execute their visions. Over the past 25 years, more than 100 growing companies have benefited from our capital, counsel, resources and creativity as well as our passion for helping entrepreneurs excel. We currently manage $1.2 billion for some of the most respected institutions in the world.

303 West Madison

25th Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-698-***

http://www.**p.com/

Chicago Innovation Mentors ?

Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM) is a consortium of the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Northwestern University, PROPEL, and Argonne National Laboratory. CIM's mission is to support university-based and local new technology innovation ventures through the use of mentor teams. CIM Works with each science-based mentee venture to encourage innovation, catalyze tech commercialization, strengthen the ecosystem necessary to support entrepreneurs, enhance local economic development, and...

10 South Riverside Plaza

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：773-456-***

Contact：Martha Wade

Email：m-wade**[ta]**cagoinnovationmentors.org

http://www.**icagoinnovationmentors.org

Chicago Ventures ?

Chicago Ventures invests in well-managed seed-stage technology companies in Chicago and the Greater Midwest that have demonstrated a value proposition in a given market for their product

services. The fund looks to make initial investments ranging from $250,000 to $1 million in each company.

222 Merchandise Mart Plaza

12th Floor

Chicago, IL 6***

http://www.**afund.com/

Chrysalis Ventures ?

Chrysalis Ventures manages one of Mid-America’s largest funds for early-stage and growth investments. We are focused on building great businesses in industries undergoing significant transformation, primarily in the Healthcare and Technology sectors. Chrysalis partners with talented entrepreneurs by providing the business intelligence, market knowledge, deep resources and financial discipline that are critical to success. We take a direct, straightforward approach in our work and our relat***

115 West Huron Street

3rd floor

Ann Arbor, MI 4***

Phone：734-864-***

http://www.**rysalisventures.com/

CID Capital

With years of operational experience and a network of valuable industry resources, CID Capital has established a national reputation as a "value-added" investment partner. CID Capital's involvement with portfolio companies takes on many forms, from strategic development to the eventual sale

public offering of the company. Our investment professionals work actively alongside management and shareholders to create value and achieve superior investment returns.

201 W. 103rd Street

Suite***

Indianapolis, IN 4***

Phone：317-418-***

http://www.**dcap.com/pages/venture_overview.asp

Cozad New Venture Competition ?

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Cozad New Venture Competition (CNVC) is designed to encourage students, researchers, and community members to create new sustainable businesses. Teams are invited to create a venture around a topic of their choice. The competition process offers teams assistance in the form of：mentors to help guide them through the phases of venture creation, workshops to help with idea validation, pitching skills, customer development, and more as well as and courses to enhance their skills and knowledge....

351 Coordinated Science Lab

1308 W Main Street

Urbana, IL 6***

Phone：217-244-***

http://www.**c.illinois.edu/cozad

Cultivian Sandbox ?

Sandbox Industries

The Cultivian Sandbox agriculture fund is a collaborative investment vehicle that seeks to invest in emerging technologies in the agriculture industry. We are looking for partners, investors and entrepreneurs who possess the vision and drive to transform the space with us.

213 North Racine

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-243-***

http://www.**ndboxindustries.com/about/cultivian-sandbox/

DFJ Mercury ?

Mercury Fund is a seed-stage venture capital firm that makes equity investments in compelling and novel software and science-based startup opportunities. Mercury partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs to build globally competitive businesses, focusing on technology innovation originating in the U.S. Midcontinent. Our firm has a particular interest in startups associated with seed accelerators, incubators and universities. We frequently invest prior to the formation of a business plan compl...

One Greenway Plaza

Suite***

Houston, TX 7***

Phone：713-715-***

http://www.**rcuryfund.com/

DFJ Portage ?

At DFJ Portage, we help extraordinary entrepreneurs build world class businesses. With over 20 years of experience, we understand the challenges and resources involved in creating a successful venture. We have offices in more than 33 cities around the world, 550 funded portfolio companies, and 135 investment professionals, giving us unrivaled visibility into the global technology market. The DFJ Network operates in virtually every major technology market in the U.S. as well as key markets in Eur...

One Northfield Plaza

Suite***

Northfield, IL 6***

Phone：847-446-***

http://www.**rtageventures.com/

Duchossois Technology Partners ?

Duchossois Technology Partners (DTEC) is a venture capital firm investing in early, mid, and growth stages of high potential technology companies. Founded in 1998, DTEC has invested in over two dozen entrepreneurial management teams, focusing on information technology, communications, semiconductors, and software.

845 Larch Avenue

Elmhurst, IL 60126-***

Phone：630-530-***

http://www.**chtech.com/

Dunrath Capital ?

Dunrath Capital is a research-based private equity and strategic advisory firm. The Dunrath team has extensive operating and investment experience in the sectors in which we invest and advise.

407 S. Dearborn St.

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Phone：312-546-***

http://www.**nrath.com/index.asp

El Dorado Ventures ?

Founded in 1986, El Dorado Ventures (EDV) is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technologies and business models in emerging and high-growth markets, across a broad range of sectors including software, technology-enabled services, communications and emerging technology.

601 Carlson Parkway

Suite ***

Minnetonka, MN 5***

Phone：650-854-***

http://www.**dorado.com/

Energy Foundry ?

We are an early-stage impact venture fund created to support game-changing grid and energy ideas, and to empower consumers to harness the benefits of the energy-tech revolution. Our model is based on the thesis that building successful grid and energy technology companies requires a unique approach. This is why we couple our investment with integrated support tailored to the needs of energy businesses. From proving grounds to an advisor network, advice on government funding to foundational part...

222 W. Merchandise Mart

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 6***

Email：info**[ta]**rgyfoundry.com

http://www.**ergyfoundry.com/

Ensemble ?

Ensemble offers entrepreneurs a one-stop, All-Star powered "digital services suite" to plan, execute and benchmark their efforts from ideation through success. All at 20-40% savings. By Entrepreneurs! For Entrepreneurs! The “Digital Services Suite” is designed to materially increase an entrepreneur’s stand-alone odds of success, as we have “been there and done that” with scores of client case studies detailing current best practices in the industry to u...

Chicago, IL

Phone：312-600-***

http://www.**semblehq.com/

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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FireStarter ?

We are a group of Chicago founders who have come together to support the next generation of entrepreneurs. We all have direct experience founding, operating and investing in digital technology based businesses that leverage the developments of the past forty years. We owe a debt to the innovators who came before us and it is a debt we intend to repay by helping to fund promising new ideas and the entrepreneurs who have the passion and the drive to see their ideas become reality.

http://www.**restarterfund.com/

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/

Foley Ventures ?

Foley & Lardner LLP

Foley attorneys throughout the country have long shared the entrepreneurial spirit embodied by Catapult companies, It is, after all, how many of our largest clients began. Along with providing a full range of legal services for emerging companies, we actively partner with clients as business strategists - and even investors. Our commitment to our clients’ success means, literally, that we put our money where our mouth is. We created Foley Ventures, a $4 million venture fund comprising contri...

321 North Clark Street

Suite ***

Chicago, IL 60654-***

Phone：312-832-***

http://www.**ley.com/CatapultChicago/

Gaebler Ventures ?

Gaebler Ventures is a business incubator and holding company that develops and nurtures companies that are shaping the future. With an emphasis on seed-stage and early-stage investments, the Chicago-based partnership has invested in companies since 1999 and has established numerous innovative and market-leading enterprises.

156 N. Jefferson Street

Suite***

Chicago, IL 6***

http://www.**eblervc.com/