Capital Markets Gateway
Series C in 2025
Capital Markets Gateway Inc. is a financial technology firm that specializes in modernizing the equity capital markets. Based in Chicago, Illinois, with additional locations in New York and Seattle, CMG offers a platform that provides real-time information and analytics to investors, underwriters, and issuers. Founded in 2015 and officially launched in 2017 by a team of experienced professionals, the platform enhances transparency and workflow efficiencies in capital raising activities. It enables users to monitor the capital raising landscape, conduct due diligence, and make informed investment decisions while facilitating collaboration between stakeholders. Currently, CMG's platform is utilized by over 100 buy-side firms and 10 investment banks, supporting a substantial amount of assets under management.
Founded in 1916, Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company. It designs, manufactures, and sells fixed-wing aircraft, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and provides leasing and product support services. With operations in over 70 countries, Boeing employs around 170,000 people and supports airlines and governments worldwide.
Amount
Venture Round in 2024
Amount, Inc. is a digital technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in mobile banking solutions for financial institutions. Established in 2018, Amount focuses on accelerating digital transformation by offering a range of services that enhance customer acquisition and optimize performance across various product categories, including personal loans, credit cards, and deposit accounts. Its flagship product, Amount 360, is a cloud-based platform that provides comprehensive solutions with features such as omnichannel integration, fraud prevention, and risk analytics. Amount's services enable financial institutions to modernize their retail offerings and improve user experiences, with clients collectively managing nearly $1 trillion in U.S. assets and serving over 25 million customers.
Project44
Venture Round in 2022
Project44 provides a cloud based visibility platform for shippers and third party logistics providers, unifying pricing, routing, scheduling, tracking, exceptions, digital documents and payments to deliver end to end shipment visibility across parcel, final mile, LTL, truckload, rail, intermodal and ocean. The platform digitizes the shipment lifecycle and automates key transportation processes to accelerate insights and action. It supports carrier performance analytics and integrates with multiple stakeholders to improve predictability, resilience and sustainability of supply chains. Serving more than 1,300 brands and handling over 1 billion shipments annually, Project44 operates from its Chicago headquarters with a global network of offices. The company is recognized as a market leader in visibility technology by industry analysts and peers.
NextCapital
Acquisition in 2022
NextCapital, established in 1996, is a Chicago-based fintech company that partners with institutions to provide personalized financial planning and managed accounts to individual investors across various account types. Their digital advice platform, NextCapital, offers integrated services including account aggregation, analytics, planning, and portfolio management. This platform allows partners to customize advice methodology and fiduciary roles, serving a wide range of investors from beginners to high net worth individuals.
Fast Radius is a cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company that unifies design, production, and fulfillment through a single digital platform to simplify and modernize manufacturing. Its Cloud Manufacturing Platform connects design, production, and fulfillment workflows to enable easier, more sustainable manufacturing. The company offers additive manufacturing services for thermoplastics, elastomeric materials, and metals, along with CNC machining, injection molding, urethane casting, and reverse engineering, supported by production-grade manufacturing and global fulfillment capabilities. Headquartered in Chicago, Fast Radius maintains additional offices and micro-factories to support rapid production and local fulfillment.
Capital Markets Gateway
Series B in 2022
Capital Markets Gateway Inc. is a financial technology firm that specializes in modernizing the equity capital markets. Based in Chicago, Illinois, with additional locations in New York and Seattle, CMG offers a platform that provides real-time information and analytics to investors, underwriters, and issuers. Founded in 2015 and officially launched in 2017 by a team of experienced professionals, the platform enhances transparency and workflow efficiencies in capital raising activities. It enables users to monitor the capital raising landscape, conduct due diligence, and make informed investment decisions while facilitating collaboration between stakeholders. Currently, CMG's platform is utilized by over 100 buy-side firms and 10 investment banks, supporting a substantial amount of assets under management.
Project44
Private Equity Round in 2022
Project44 provides a cloud based visibility platform for shippers and third party logistics providers, unifying pricing, routing, scheduling, tracking, exceptions, digital documents and payments to deliver end to end shipment visibility across parcel, final mile, LTL, truckload, rail, intermodal and ocean. The platform digitizes the shipment lifecycle and automates key transportation processes to accelerate insights and action. It supports carrier performance analytics and integrates with multiple stakeholders to improve predictability, resilience and sustainability of supply chains. Serving more than 1,300 brands and handling over 1 billion shipments annually, Project44 operates from its Chicago headquarters with a global network of offices. The company is recognized as a market leader in visibility technology by industry analysts and peers.
Visual Comfort
Venture Round in 2021
Visual Comfort & Co. is a leading provider of designer lighting solutions based in Skokie, Illinois. The company specializes in an extensive range of interior and exterior lighting fixtures, including pendant lights, chandeliers, ceiling fans, and outdoor lighting. Catering to both residential and commercial markets, Visual Comfort offers products characterized by their stylish designs and functional attributes, utilizing natural materials and hand-applied finishes. Its offerings are targeted toward various industries, including electrical wholesale, home improvement, home decor, and building products, ensuring a blend of high aesthetics and practicality in their lighting solutions.
Project44
Series E in 2021
Project44 provides a cloud based visibility platform for shippers and third party logistics providers, unifying pricing, routing, scheduling, tracking, exceptions, digital documents and payments to deliver end to end shipment visibility across parcel, final mile, LTL, truckload, rail, intermodal and ocean. The platform digitizes the shipment lifecycle and automates key transportation processes to accelerate insights and action. It supports carrier performance analytics and integrates with multiple stakeholders to improve predictability, resilience and sustainability of supply chains. Serving more than 1,300 brands and handling over 1 billion shipments annually, Project44 operates from its Chicago headquarters with a global network of offices. The company is recognized as a market leader in visibility technology by industry analysts and peers.
Amount, Inc. is a digital technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in mobile banking solutions for financial institutions. Established in 2018, Amount focuses on accelerating digital transformation by offering a range of services that enhance customer acquisition and optimize performance across various product categories, including personal loans, credit cards, and deposit accounts. Its flagship product, Amount 360, is a cloud-based platform that provides comprehensive solutions with features such as omnichannel integration, fraud prevention, and risk analytics. Amount's services enable financial institutions to modernize their retail offerings and improve user experiences, with clients collectively managing nearly $1 trillion in U.S. assets and serving over 25 million customers.
Capital Markets Gateway
Series B in 2020
Capital Markets Gateway Inc. is a financial technology firm that specializes in modernizing the equity capital markets. Based in Chicago, Illinois, with additional locations in New York and Seattle, CMG offers a platform that provides real-time information and analytics to investors, underwriters, and issuers. Founded in 2015 and officially launched in 2017 by a team of experienced professionals, the platform enhances transparency and workflow efficiencies in capital raising activities. It enables users to monitor the capital raising landscape, conduct due diligence, and make informed investment decisions while facilitating collaboration between stakeholders. Currently, CMG's platform is utilized by over 100 buy-side firms and 10 investment banks, supporting a substantial amount of assets under management.
Syntellis Performance Solutions
Debt Financing in 2020
Syntellis Performance Solutions is a software company established in 1985, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with additional offices across the United States. It specializes in enterprise performance management solutions, catering primarily to healthcare organizations, higher education institutions, and financial institutions. Syntellis offers a suite of products including cost accounting, comparative analytics, contract management, clinical analytics, enterprise planning, strategy management, driver-based financial planning, funds transfer pricing, relationship profitability analysis, budget planning, capital planning, labor planning, strategic financial planning, and tuition planning. These solutions are designed to provide data-driven insights, enabling clients to make informed decisions and improve overall performance within their respective sectors.
MedVet
Private Equity Round in 2019
MedVet is a veterinary care provider offering specialty and emergency services for dogs and cats. It operates a network of emergency and specialty referral hospitals with 24/7 availability across Ohio and additional locations in the Gulf Coast region and Midwest, including Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. The company provides cardiology, critical care, dentistry and oral surgery, interventional radiology, medical oncology, neurology, ophthalmology, dermatology, anesthesia and pain management, and other veterinary specialties, supporting in-depth patient management and rapid access to care. Founded in 1988, MedVet is headquartered in Worthington, Ohio.
Outcome Health
Private Equity Round in 2017
Founded in 2006, Outcome Health delivers health intelligence technology solutions to improve patient outcomes. Its platforms include digital waiting room screens, exam room tablets, and clinical trial education tools, serving over 500 million patient visits annually. The company aims to activate the best health outcome possible for every person by providing actionable intelligence during critical moments of care.
Networked Insights
Series E in 2017
Networked Insights, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in analytics and audience targeting tools designed for marketers and agencies. Founded in 2006, it provides a suite of software solutions, including Kairos, which delivers real-time insights into target audiences, marketing campaigns, and brand health. The company's offerings encompass social monitoring, content planning, campaign management, and media targeting, enabling clients to make informed marketing decisions and enhance media efficiency. Networked Insights also features Audience.ai, an artificial intelligence-driven platform that further aids in audience engagement. Its client roster includes notable brands such as MTV, Samsung, and Kraft, demonstrating its capacity to help businesses optimize their marketing strategies and uncover content opportunities.
Networked Insights
Series D in 2014
Networked Insights, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in analytics and audience targeting tools designed for marketers and agencies. Founded in 2006, it provides a suite of software solutions, including Kairos, which delivers real-time insights into target audiences, marketing campaigns, and brand health. The company's offerings encompass social monitoring, content planning, campaign management, and media targeting, enabling clients to make informed marketing decisions and enhance media efficiency. Networked Insights also features Audience.ai, an artificial intelligence-driven platform that further aids in audience engagement. Its client roster includes notable brands such as MTV, Samsung, and Kraft, demonstrating its capacity to help businesses optimize their marketing strategies and uncover content opportunities.
Networked Insights
Series C in 2013
Networked Insights, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in analytics and audience targeting tools designed for marketers and agencies. Founded in 2006, it provides a suite of software solutions, including Kairos, which delivers real-time insights into target audiences, marketing campaigns, and brand health. The company's offerings encompass social monitoring, content planning, campaign management, and media targeting, enabling clients to make informed marketing decisions and enhance media efficiency. Networked Insights also features Audience.ai, an artificial intelligence-driven platform that further aids in audience engagement. Its client roster includes notable brands such as MTV, Samsung, and Kraft, demonstrating its capacity to help businesses optimize their marketing strategies and uncover content opportunities.
Imaging Advantage
Venture Round in 2012
Imaging Advantage is a prominent provider of advanced, evidence-based radiology solutions designed to enhance the efficiency and utilization of healthcare services across the United States. The company offers innovative, scalable cloud-based technology that integrates various information technology systems and employs clinical algorithms to align healthcare supply and demand. Imaging Advantage serves major healthcare systems in states including Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas, as well as in other significant metropolitan areas nationwide. By focusing on optimizing provider utilization, the company aims to improve the overall effectiveness of radiology services within the healthcare sector.
Imaging Advantage
Venture Round in 2012
Imaging Advantage is a prominent provider of advanced, evidence-based radiology solutions designed to enhance the efficiency and utilization of healthcare services across the United States. The company offers innovative, scalable cloud-based technology that integrates various information technology systems and employs clinical algorithms to align healthcare supply and demand. Imaging Advantage serves major healthcare systems in states including Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas, as well as in other significant metropolitan areas nationwide. By focusing on optimizing provider utilization, the company aims to improve the overall effectiveness of radiology services within the healthcare sector.
Networked Insights
Series B in 2011
Networked Insights, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in analytics and audience targeting tools designed for marketers and agencies. Founded in 2006, it provides a suite of software solutions, including Kairos, which delivers real-time insights into target audiences, marketing campaigns, and brand health. The company's offerings encompass social monitoring, content planning, campaign management, and media targeting, enabling clients to make informed marketing decisions and enhance media efficiency. Networked Insights also features Audience.ai, an artificial intelligence-driven platform that further aids in audience engagement. Its client roster includes notable brands such as MTV, Samsung, and Kraft, demonstrating its capacity to help businesses optimize their marketing strategies and uncover content opportunities.
Imaging Advantage
Venture Round in 2010
Imaging Advantage is a prominent provider of advanced, evidence-based radiology solutions designed to enhance the efficiency and utilization of healthcare services across the United States. The company offers innovative, scalable cloud-based technology that integrates various information technology systems and employs clinical algorithms to align healthcare supply and demand. Imaging Advantage serves major healthcare systems in states including Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas, as well as in other significant metropolitan areas nationwide. By focusing on optimizing provider utilization, the company aims to improve the overall effectiveness of radiology services within the healthcare sector.
SPARTA Insurance Company
Private Equity Round in 2007
SPARTA Insurance Company is an underwriting firm that operates in the commercial property and casualty insurance market across the United States, including the District of Columbia. The company utilizes a state-of-the-art, web-based Policy Administration System that enhances operational efficiency and user experience. This advanced .NET system is designed to be easily integrated into various internal and external applications, ensuring compatibility with modern technology platforms. By focusing on targeted lines of business, SPARTA aims to streamline the insurance process, promoting speed and ease of use for its clients.
FiberTower Corporation
Series A in 2005
FiberTower Corporation is a provider of facilities‑based backhaul services to wireless carriers across the United States. The company constructs and operates high‑coverage, high‑capacity hybrid microwave and fiber networks, leveraging its spectrum assets and fiber relationships. It delivers transport services using protocols such as time division multiplexing, SONET, and Ethernet. FiberTower also specializes in millimeter‑band fixed wireless technology, leasing spectrum in the 24 GHz and 39 GHz bands for small‑cell and macro‑cell backhaul solutions. The firm serves thousands of customer locations in major markets including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, New York/New Jersey, Pittsburgh, San Antonio/Austin/Waco, Washington DC/N. Virginia/S. Maryland, and West Florida. It collaborates with carriers, equipment providers, and deployment partners on research and development initiatives. FiberTower Corporation is headquartered in San Francisco.
Avamar Technologies
Venture Round in 2004
Avamar Technologies develops enterprise data protection software solutions for corporations, medium to large-sized businesses, and multinational enterprises. The company offers Axion, a disk backup and recovery solution that allows corporations to move, store, and leverage data on a server. It also provides business continuity and disaster recovery, data security and encryption, remote office protection, and legal discovery and support for regulatory compliance solutions. The company, formerly known as Undoo.com, was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, California with sales offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, and New York.
Hull Group
Acquisition in 1999
The Hull Group, a Chicago-based electronic market-maker.
Tunes.com
Private Equity Round in 1999
Tunes.com is an online music network, providing music content, community features, and e-commerce services for its users. It provides music videos and music downloads for its clients while offering targeted advertising services on preferred demographics.
Tunes.com was founded in 1997 and is based in Chicago, I.L. The company was acquired by [eMusic.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/emusic) in 2000. [Patrick Blake](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/patrick-blake), a long-term veteran of start-ups, product management, and angel investing, is the founder of Tunes.com.