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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,

How We Partnered with Twitter for #SheInspiresMe Day

We partnered with Twitter’s Retail team to organize #SheInspiresMe Day in September – an event aimed at sharing unique perspectives, trading tips, and creating meaningful new connections between females from Chicago Ventures’

Catalyze Raises $6.5 Million in Series B Financing to Meet the Growing Need of Trusted Connectivity within Enterprise Healthcare

Lewis & Clark Ventures led the round, joined by existing investors Arthur Ventures, Baird Venture Partners and Chicago Ventures

Madison, WIS (September 21, 2016) -Catalyze, Inc.,

How Havenly’s CTO Has Built a High-Performing Engineering Culture

A self-described “life-long nerd,” Havenly’s CTO Gabe Hesse loves making things. He’s a tinkerer who’s attracted to high-growth companies in industries ripe for technology disruption. Gabe’s career has spanned from transactional processing to healthcare to,

project44 Raises $10.5M in Series A to Bring Real-Time Visibility to the Supply Chain via APIs

New funding from Emergence Capital and Chicago Ventures will allow for further product growth

CHICAGO, IL, September 12, 2016 — project44, a Chicago-based technology company providing industry leading supply chain visibility and connectivity,

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