Illinois Ventures

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.