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February 7, 2017 • Blog

How a SaaS Marketer Used Content Marketing to Launch a Brand and Educate an Industry

project44’s VP of Marketing Ally Lynch joined the company at the beta stage – and she, like many who meet CEO and Founder Jett McCandless, was quickly sold on the vision and massive opportunity the startup was tackling.

GAN Integrity Inc. Raises $9 Million Led by Edison Partners

Accelerates Growth to Transform Corporate Compliance Management

BROOKLYN, NY – Jan. 31, 2017 – GAN Integrity Inc., a leading provider of compliance management software to enterprise businesses,

Children’s Apparel Service Mac & Mia Raises $3.0MM in Seed Funding to Continue Winning Back Hours of Time for Busy Parents

New kids apparel service is leading the charge in removing the friction from traditional shopping and replacing it with delight, discovery, personalization, and convenience.

CHICAGO, IL –

Catalytic’s Customer Success Exec on Being an Advocate for the Customer

When Andrew Thiermann was in his early 20s, he moved to Chicago from Paris, where he’d spent two years as a web and communications consultant for a major international organization.

December 13, 2016 • Blog

From Super Mario’s US Launch to New Mobile, Synchronous, Multi-Player Games: How Chicago’s Gaming Veteran Tim Harris has Watched the Industry Evolve

Tim Harris has had a hand in Chicago’s quietly ambitious gaming scene for over two decades, though his interest was seeded much earlier. A lifelong gamer and child-of-the-80s, Tim grew up as a self-described computer geek,

ItemMaster Secures $7.5M Series A Funding Led by Edison Partners

Funding Will Accelerate Growth of ItemMaster’s Key Offerings to Solve Dramatically Increasing Product Content Needs of CPG Brands and Retailers

CHICAGO, IL – November 22, 2016 – ItemMaster,

Every Brand. Everywhere.

Nearly 25 years before Instacart was hatched and a decade prior to WebVan’s fall from grace, two brothers pondered a question. They wondered why a trip to the grocery store was required each and every time they needed food.

November 16, 2016 • Blog

Designing Parking Magic

SpotHero’s Chief Product Officer Anthony Broad-Crawford grew up with an entirely different career focus: music. As part of an elite youth orchestra where “music was his life,” Anthony played trumpet,

October 31, 2016 • CV News

Chicago Ventures Closes $66M Fund II to Continue Investing in Seed Stage Tech Startups

Chicago Ventures, a seed stage venture capital firm that invests in tech-enabled startups, today announced the close of its $66M Chicago Ventures Fund II. With over $100M under management, the firm leads or participates in the first institutional rounds of capital raised by early-stage companies in Chicago and the central part of the country,

October 20, 2016 • Blog

Welcome 2016-2017 CV Student Fellows!

We’re very excited to kick off one of our favorite initiatives here at Chicago Ventures – our Student Fellows program.

Now in its fourth year, the program was launched by our Senior Associate Ezra Galston in an effort to connect with and learn from the most entrepreneurial,

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