Top Illinois Angel or VC Firm Startups (35)
IrishAngels is an angel investment network that invests in seed stage startups raising rounds of $1 to $3 million. IrishAngels has 230 investors and has invested in over 40 companies, deploying $30 million in capital since its inception in 2012.
Energy Foundry invests venture capital in today’s most promising energy innovators, and we work with the world’s leading energy companies to build and scale new ventures. Our approach merges venture capital with the perks of partnership, and includes an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help bring great ideas to market.
We’re a venture studio designed for companies wanting to build high-impact software. We’ve successfully helped launch 60+ digital products for companies. We explore markets where deep subject matter expertise is required to produce the purpose-driven products and software we build. We’ve been honing our approach to tackle such challenges since 2012.
Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth, mid-continent technology startups. We seek companies with an exceptional founding team and fast-growth potential, looking to raise a first or second round of capital. With offices in Chicago and Indianapolis, our team is tenacious, responsive, and committed
At Xerxes Global, we believe in bold. We get excited about the BIG ideas – the ones that disrupt or break open an industry to change everything. We develop innovative new ways to find insights that shake business to its foundations, new approaches to management that dare to ask “what if you could?,” and new ways of presenting information to...
The Cultivator is a team of highly experienced Chicago business owners, investors, and experts. We provide entrepreneurs who are struggling to take their business to the next level with the guidance, capital, and resources they need so they can realize and reach their potential faster. The Cultivator invests business resources and capital in entrepreneurs that we truly believe have the drive,...
Bluestein Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital fund investing in the future of food. Our focus is game-changing, early-stage ventures across the food industry that redefine how consumers achieve their health and wellness. Our investments span the entire supply chain – both B2C and B2B – with a focus on four areas: high-growth consumer brands, proprietary foodtech, next-gen commerce,...
Clean Energy Trust is a nonprofit that invests in the entrepreneurs leading the clean technology revolution.
TRIBUS delivers custom platforms to help real estate brokerages best engage their Clients, Agents & Staff
Omnium is Chicago’s first and only blockchain innovation ecosystem.
Hyde Park Angels is is the largest and most active angel group in the Midwest. With a membership of over 100 successful entrepreneurs, executives, and venture capitalists, the organization prides itself on providing critical strategic expertise to entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial community. By leveraging the membe
Founder Equity is an early stage fund with a radically different approach. We provide cash and talent, giving founders a "startup team in a box". Founders get access to full time designers, developers, marketers, strategists and more.
VentureDNA is a sought-after principal investor and independent investment advisor in early and growth-stage companies and in addition its expansion into health and life sciences and education, works with companies across media technology, cleantech, fintech, consumer brands and real estate.
Washing Pond Ventures is an early-stage investment fund that focuses on technology-enabled ideas through either internal incubation and development or external investment and support.
Tyree & D'Angelo Partners ("TDP") is a private equity investment firm that focuses on control investments in the lower middle market (companies with $1-5M of EBITDA). We look for investments where we can establish true collaborative partnerships with business owners and management teams that will lead to substantial value creation over a long-term investment horizon. TDP’s track record of...
Ekistic Ventures is a fund of urban problem-solvers who are actively cultivating a portfolio of disruptive companies that bring new solutions to critical urban problems. We invest our expertise and capital in entrepreneurs and young start-ups that have great ideas to make cities more efficient and equitable.
Omkara Ventures is a hybrid growth consultancy focused on accelerating innovative entrepreneurs and startups. We're an agile and data-driven team of investors and strategists that partner with early-stage companies to develop predictable and sustainable growth through a technology-driven and customer-centered approach.
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Seed and early-stage technology investment firm focused on research-derived companies in information technologies, physical sciences, life sciences and clean technology














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