Chicago Ventures

Summary

In 2013 was created Chicago Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Chicago Ventures, startups are often financed by Lakewest Venture Partners, Techstars Chicago (Formerly Excelerate Labs), Corazon Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Service Provider Capital, HPA, FireStarter Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lakewest Venture Partners, HPA, Corazon Capital.

The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from Chicago Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Chicago Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Enterprise Software. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Havenly, Sunbit, SpotHero

This organization was formed by Stuart Larkins. Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.