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Illinois Ventures

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Total investments 59
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 45
Rounds per year 2.46
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 9
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Renewable Energy
  • Advertising
Summary

Illinois Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2002. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Illinois Ventures, startups are often financed by Serra Ventures, SOSV, RPM Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Serra Ventures, RPM Ventures, Intersouth Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SOSV, HAX, West Capital Advisors.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Therapeutics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ShareThis, Chromatin, Diagnostic Photonics

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Illinois Ventures works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Top Tier Lessons

EdTech
Marketplace
Sports
10 Sep 2024 Champaign, Illinois, United States

Elion Therapeutics

$81M17 Jun 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

ClimeCast

$355K18 Apr 2024 Champaign, Illinois, United States

Cadenza Bio

Biotechnology
$2M14 Dec 2023 -

Natrion

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$1M25 May 2022 Binghamton, New York, United States

Ascent Integrated Tech

B2B
Government
Public Safety
$1M31 Jan 2022 Champaign, Illinois, United States

Mesh++

Hardware
Internet
Wireless
$4M21 Oct 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Ocient

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Database
Software
15 Jan 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Network Perception

Analytics
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Network Security
Security
$2M16 Dec 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 59
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 2.46
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Top Tier Lessons

EdTech
Marketplace
Sports
10 Sep 2024 Champaign, Illinois, United States

Elion Therapeutics

$81M17 Jun 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

ClimeCast

$355K18 Apr 2024 Champaign, Illinois, United States

Cadenza Bio

Biotechnology
$2M14 Dec 2023 -

Natrion

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$1M25 May 2022 Binghamton, New York, United States

Ascent Integrated Tech

B2B
Government
Public Safety
$1M31 Jan 2022 Champaign, Illinois, United States

Mesh++

Hardware
Internet
Wireless
$4M21 Oct 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Ocient

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Database
Software
15 Jan 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Network Perception

Analytics
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Network Security
Security
$2M16 Dec 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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