Illinois Ventures
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Illinois Ventures is a university-based venture firm that invests in early-stage companies with connections to the University of Illinois System. It operates a Pre-Seed Fund and a Deep Tech Fund, focusing on sectors like AI, biotech, and clean tech.
Illinois Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Chicago, United States, founded in 2000. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in artificial Intelligence, information Technology, ag Tech and health. Its stated cheque size is $100,000 to $300,000 (Pre-Seed Fund); $250,000 for Seed-Stage and $750,000 for Series A-Stage (Deep Tech Fund). 125 portfolio companies, as it reports.
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Ag Tech, Health, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Engineering, Quantum, Clean Tech
- Cheque size
- $100,000 to $300,000 (Pre-Seed Fund); $250,000 for Seed-Stage and $750,000 for Series A-Stage (Deep Tech Fund)
- Founded
- 2000
- Portfolio
- 125 companies
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 50 co-investors found.
- Greycroft 2 shared companies: ocient.com, inventables.com
- Connetic Ventures 2 shared companies: campus.ink, firstignite.com
- Innova Memphis, INC. 2 shared companies: earthsense.co, cast21.com
- 11 Tribes Ventures 2 shared companies: ascentitech.com, keywise.tech
- Sofinnova 1 shared company: excelsiorsci.com
- Blue Bear Capital 1 shared company: ocient.com
- Hyde Park Angels 1 shared company: ocient.com
- Zelkova Management, LLC 1 shared company: ocient.com
- Corazon Capital 1 shared company: inventables.com
- Capital Innovators 1 shared company: campus.ink
and 40 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Illinois Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://illinoisventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, portfolio_count, status
- https://illinoisventures.com/pre-seed-fund/stage_min, cheque_size
- https://illinoisventures.com/deep-tech-fund/stage_max, sectors
- https://illinoisventures.com/about-us/description, founded
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