Chicago Ventures

Chicago Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in seed-stage technology companies located in Chicago and the Greater Midwest. The firm partners with exceptional entrepreneurs who are building businesses within undercapitalized, high-potential ecosystems. Chicago Ventures aims to identify companies that have demonstrated a clear value proposition for their products or services. It typically makes initial investments ranging from $250,000 to $1 million, targeting areas such as technology-enabled products and services, new media and education products, as well as consumer web and mobile applications. Through its investments, Chicago Ventures seeks to support the growth and development of innovative companies in the region.

Rob Chesney

Partner

Peter Christman

Partner

Steven Cook

Investor, Analyst

Lindsay Knight

Partner

Past deals in Indiana

Entegrata

Seed Round in 2025
Entegrata is a legal technology company established in 2023 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company specializes in developing a customer relationship management platform that allows legal firms to centralize their data safely and securely. Entegrata offers a proprietary legal data model designed to streamline data management, enabling clients to expedite their data workflows and generate production-ready analytics. Additionally, the platform provides an extensive library of pre-built reports compatible with Microsoft PowerBI, facilitating efficient and cost-effective data analysis for organizations.

Mimir

Debt Financing in 2016
Mimir Corporation, founded in 2014 and based in Indianapolis, Indiana, offers the Mimir Platform, a cloud-based solution designed to enhance the teaching and learning experience in computer science education. The platform, utilized by over 70 universities, enables instructors to efficiently manage courses of any size while maintaining high educational standards. Mimir Classroom streamlines grading processes, allowing for immediate feedback, and supports more than 40 programming languages. It also features tools to monitor student progress and identify areas where comprehension may be lacking. Additionally, Mimir’s configurable plagiarism detection system addresses academic integrity concerns by deterring cheating. Schools implementing Mimir have reported an average 11% increase in final exam scores, with a significant majority of students expressing a desire for the platform to be used across all their computer science classes. Mimir operates as a subsidiary of HackerRank.
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