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August 26, 2019 • CV Portfolio Company News

SpotHero Announces $50 Million Series D Funding Led by Macquarie Capital

CHICAGO-August 22, 2019- SpotHero, the digital parking leader, today announced $50 million in Series D funding led by Macquarie Capital, bringing SpotHero’s total funding to date to $118 million. Union Grove Venture Partners participated in the round,

People, Processes, Product, and Tools: How HealthJoy Has Built a Customer Success Organization

HealthJoy simplifies the healthcare experience by providing personalized
benefits guidance, helping employees make better decisions to drive down costs.
The easy-to-use app brings together medical professionals, advocates, Rx
savings and artificial intelligence in the form of the app’s virtual assistant,

Sunbit Announces $26M in Funding Round Led by Zeev Ventures

Machine learning-based point-of-sale fintech will accelerate growth and extend financing
technology to additional critical in-store markets

LOS ANGELES – June 12, 2019 - Sunbit, a leading financial technology company that effectively transforms the process of financing in-store purchases for consumers across the credit spectrum,

May 30, 2019 • Blog

Advice from a VC intern: Chicago Ventures’ Adit Damodaran

Adit is a third-year undergraduate at the University of Chicago from Chattanooga, TN. He’s an Economics major, with a specialization in Data Science, and a background in Computer Science.

Adit interned at Chicago Ventures through the spring of 2019,

May 28, 2019 • Blog

Help Wanted: Chicago Ventures is hiring an Analyst and Associate

Chicago Ventures invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer software companies in the middle of the country. We believe innovation is unbounded by geography. Structural conditions like higher concentrations of talent and customers are accelerating the rise of non-coastal markets.

March 13, 2019 • Blog

We’re hiring a Platform intern!

Chicago Ventures is hiring an intern to join its Platform team — the team that owns firm brand and marketing and also works operationally with the firm’s portfolio companies. (You can read more about the CV Platform strategy here.) This internship will focus mostly on the firm’s brand and marketing efforts.

HealthJoy raises $12.5M Series B to help employees make the most of their healthcare benefits

Read the full post at TechCrunch.

Viacom Has Acquired Pluto TV Streaming Service for $340 Million

Read the full post at Variety.

Gladson Acquires ItemMaster to Expand its Product Database and Retailer Reach

The latest in a series of acquisitions further enhances Gladson’s omni-channel
product content and quality audit capabilities

CHICAGO, Illinois — January 9,
2019 — Gladson, a Chicago-based portfolio company of The Jordan Company (“TJC”)
and Wicks Capital Partners (“Wicks”),

G2 Crowd builds the world’s largest business commerce platform fueled by $100M in funding

Series C round shows startup becoming ‘next Amazon for business’

CHICAGO, Oct. 11, 2018 — G2 Crowd, the marketplace revolutionizing how businesses discover, buy and manage software and services,

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