Mark Kendall
Micro VCs play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Chicago Micro VCs. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top Chicago Micro VCs
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
M25
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
M25 is the most active early-stage VC firm investing in Midwest headquartered startups (14 states, 100+ companies) across various industries
Promus Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.
Moderne Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Moderne Ventures is a venture fund that invests in tech real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance, and home service companies.
First Analysis
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
First Analysis is a venture capital investment company that offers equity research, investment banking, and sales and trading services.
Impact Engine
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Impact Engine is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests financial and human capital in early-stage companies.
Corazon Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage:
Corazon Capital is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage opportunities.
MATH Venture Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
MATH Venture Partners invests in teams building companies with an unfair advantage in customer acquisition.
Jumpstart Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
JumpStart Ventures is an investment fund built to partner with entrepreneurs solving problems that need intelligent innovation.
7wire Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
7wire ventures focuses on investing in early and growth-stage companies focused on healthcare IT, digital healtcare and mobile health.
Higher Ground Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Venture
Higher Ground Labs is building an ecosystem for progressive political technology.
Listen
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Listen is a consumer-only venture capital firm focused on backing and building the brands of tomorrow.
Lakewest Venture Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Lakewest Venture Partners is a real estate and private equity company, pursuing seed and early stage investment opportunities.
New Stack Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Syndicate, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
New Stack Ventures is a venture firm investing in startups that are pre-revenue, in pilots/PoCs, or early commercialization.
I2A Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
I2A is a seed venture capital fund that catalyzes and partners with entrepreneurial companies in the Illinois region.
Sandalphon Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Sandalphon Capital is a micro venture capital firm focused on Seed to Series A investments
VitalizeVC
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
VitalizeVC is an early-stage VC fund investing in high potential B2B technology startups in future of work and future of learning.
Motivate Venture Capital
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Motivate Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in Seed-stage companies across the US and Canada.
Starting Line
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Seed
Starting Line is an early stage consumer focused VC fund.
Network Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Seed
Network Ventures is a Chicago-based company that provides venture capital to seed stage companies.
R7 Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
R7 Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies building transformational technologies.
FireStarter Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
FireStarter Fund is a self-managed investment fund focused on digital media and marketing, SaaS, and e-commerce companies.
Founder Equity
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Founder Equity is an Early-Stage Venture Capital fund with offices in Chicago and Dallas
Germin8 Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Germin8 Ventures is a venture capital firm actively investing with domain expertise and strategic backing in FoodTech and AgTech.
Fulcrum Investing
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Family Investment Office, Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Fulcrum Investing is a family office dedicated to the advancement and assistance of start-up companies and the entrepreneurial community.
Ekistic Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Ekistic Ventures is a group of urban problem-solvers investing our expertise and capital to make cities more efficient and equitable.
The Pritzker Organization
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Seed
The Pritzker Organization is a private investment firm that funds, acquires, and builds companies.
Holdings Industries
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Holdings Industries is composed of early stage experience/technology companies that have the ability to lead in their space & scale.
Upheaval Investments
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Upheaval investments is a seed through growth stage venture firm that invests in groundbreaking technologies led by bold founder vision.
Pathway Bioventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Pathway Bioventures is a seed-stage life sciences fund investing in next-generation therapeutics, medical device, and diagnostics companies.
Newlin
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Angel Group, Micro VC, Syndicate, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Post-Ipo, Seed
Newlin is a venture capital and private equity firm that connects founders to capital turning ideas to fundable businesses.
Continental Advisors
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage: Seed
Continental Advisors LLC is a company that provides investment advising services for financial management and healthcare.
INCISENT Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Incubator, Micro VC
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
INCISENT Labs is a platform for creating disruptive innovations that transform traditional industries.
Spiral Sun Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage:
Spiral Sun Ventures is an early-stage fund focused on investing in promising consumer product companies.
Impossible X
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage:
Impossible X helps startups scale their businesses through the use of SEO, SEM, and content marketing strategy.
NL Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage:
NL Ventures is a boutique investment firm that provides advisory services to early stage and emerging companies.
New Coast Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
New Coast Ventures is a full-service web and mobile development firm that builds solutions for Fortune 500s, startups, and even itself.
Arch Development Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC
Investment Stage:
Arch Development Partners is a Chicago-based venture capital fund that aims to invest in seed stage companies.
Lakeshore ArchAngels
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Lakeshore ArchAngels provides a forum for entrepreneurial-minded members to invest in early-stage businesses.
Tur Partners
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Tur Partners LLC is a principal investment firm.
GREVILLE GROUP
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
GREVILLE GROUP was established with a view to the preparation of investment projects, investments.
Plura Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Plura Ventures is a leading online equity crowdfunding platform for startups and investors
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