Chicago, Illinois, United States In 2006 was created Continental Investors, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago. The company was established in North America in United States.
The current fund was established by Philip Purcell. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CampusLogic, Winestyr. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Internet. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Continental Investors, startups are often financed by Philip Purcell, Accelerator Ventures, Walt Doyle. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Serengeti Asset Management, Philip Purcell, FirstMark. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FirstMark, Accomplice, Revolution.
The top activity for fund was in 2014. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.
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Notable deals
| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
TheDrop.com | $4M | 25 Aug 2021 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | ||
Gig Wage | $7M | 27 Oct 2020 | Dallas, Texas, United States | ||
AeroPay | 29 Sep 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States | |||
CampusLogic | $4M | 06 Jul 2015 | Chandler, Arizona, United States | ||
Aura Financial | $17M | 01 Jul 2014 | San Francisco, California, United States | ||
Drizly | $2M | 21 May 2014 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Aura Financial | $7M | 01 Dec 2013 | San Francisco, California, United States |
– Gig Wage provides a FinTech payroll platform which enables employers to instantly pay 1099 workers while offering independent contractors an efficient way to receive payments.
– The company has raised $16.45m to-date from Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT), Silicon Valley Bank, Foundry Group, Continental Investors, Techstars, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and more.
– Gig Wage also announced the addition of Clarisa Lindenmeyer as Chief of Staff to the CEO and Chief Brand Officer.
– AeroPay, a digital payments platform, announced today the closing of a $5+ million Venture Round.
– The round was led by Chicago Ventures, a firm that leads investments in early-stage startups.
– The Chicago Ventures portfolio includes online financial services company M1 Finance, celebrity video-sharing website Cameo, digital parking marketplace SpotHero, and peer-to-peer review site G2.
– Other investors in the round include FinTech experts Continental Investors, who led AeroPay’s seed round, former Google executives, cannabis industry veterans, and seasoned enterprise retail professionals.
– The funding will support recruiting new talent, continued growth in the cannabis industry, and building out additional features of the product.
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| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
TheDrop.com | $4M | 25 Aug 2021 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | ||
Gig Wage | $7M | 27 Oct 2020 | Dallas, Texas, United States | ||
AeroPay | 29 Sep 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States | |||
CampusLogic | $4M | 06 Jul 2015 | Chandler, Arizona, United States | ||
Aura Financial | $17M | 01 Jul 2014 | San Francisco, California, United States | ||
Drizly | $2M | 21 May 2014 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Aura Financial | $7M | 01 Dec 2013 | San Francisco, California, United States |
