SBB Research Group

Founded in 2010, SBB Research Group specializes in bespoke investments designed to protect and grow investor capital. SBBRG views the market through a systematic lens and strives to simultaneously capture opportunities and mitigate risks, while avoiding overreactions in either direction. The firm's founder and CEO, Sam Barnett, Ph.D., is an applied mathematician and neuroscientist specializing in quantitative predictions of complex systems. He and Matt Aven, COO and CCO, have fostered interdisciplinary collaboration among experts in science, economics, engineering, and other key areas. The team is dedicated to continuous innovation to enhance its investment methodologies. In addition, SBBRG is committed to giving back to the community, both at the local and global level. The company regularly organizes volunteer events and sponsors underserved causes. Notably, SBBRG is the presenting sponsor of the annual Greater Chicago K-12 Chess Championship and is a proud partner of the Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center, the World Wildlife Fund in the Northern Great Plains, Surge for Water in Uganda, and many other organizations.

Matthew Aven

COO

22 past transactions

Inellas Restoration Center

Grant in 2025
The Inellas Restoration Center offers financial, legal, and educational advocacy assistance.

Support Over Stigma

Grant in 2025
Support Over Stigma is committed to empowering military personnel, veterans, first responders, and their families by providing comprehensive support for mental health and service-related issues. It attempts to give the essential assistance, information, tools, and resources to help people overcome mental health challenges.

Hunger Resource Network

Grant in 2025
Hunger Resource Network is a non-profit organization that support and helps the meet the needs of food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.

Outreach House

Grant in 2025
Outreach House provides compassionate and effective support to individuals and families in need in a dignified and judgment-free manner.

The Children’s Piazza

Grant in 2025
The Children's Piazza is a play café with a mission to promote healthy brain development in young children and support the emotional health of their caregivers, with access for all.

Top Floor Learning

Grant in 2025
Top Floor Learning is a privately financed, non-profit organization.

Violets Kitchen

Grant in 2025
Violet's Kitchen is a mobile emergency resource and is committed to giving food and resources to homeless veterans and those in need.

Hunger Resource Network

Grant in 2024
Hunger Resource Network is a non-profit organization that support and helps the meet the needs of food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.

Compass to Care

Grant in 2024
Compass to Care is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization provides a free Non Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) solution to access life-saving cancer treatment and clinical trials for children fighting cancer and facing poverty or cancer-related financial toxicity (CRFT).

South Shore Children’s Chorus

Grant in 2024
SSCC provides quality musical education and vocal training to students, to create a safe space and loving community for choristers to learn, to grow, and to find their own voice.

The Snapchef Foundation

Grant in 2024
The Snapchef Foundation provides solid career prospects in the food service sector through training and mentoring, while also providing meals to people in need.

Salaam Community Wellness Center

Grant in 2024
Salaam Community Wellness Center operates as a healing space for health disparities.

Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture

Grant in 2023
Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture provides immersive, accredited internships and a unique academic approach that cultivates self-awareness and equips students for success in a diverse workforce.

DrinkWater Family Services

Grant in 2023
DrinkWater Family Services offers a warm and secure atmosphere for families to complete court-ordered visitations and parental exchanges.

Facing Forward to End Homelessness

Grant in 2023
Facing Forward to End Homelessness is a nonprofit organization that provides permanent housing, education, advocacy, and social services.

Compass to Care

Grant in 2023
Compass to Care is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization provides a free Non Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) solution to access life-saving cancer treatment and clinical trials for children fighting cancer and facing poverty or cancer-related financial toxicity (CRFT).

Outreach House

Grant in 2023
Outreach House provides compassionate and effective support to individuals and families in need in a dignified and judgment-free manner.

Clean Up - Give Back

Grant in 2023
Clean Up Give Back is a non-profit organization that organizes trash-clearing campaigns that benefit the neighborhood and the environment.

All Kids Play

Grant in 2023
All Kids Play is a non-profit organization that assists families and communities with financial aid and education on safe and healthy sports-related play.

Antioch Traveling Closet

Grant in 2023
Antioch Traveling Closet gathers new or gently used clothing, shoes, and other necessities to donate to the less fortunate in their neighborhood.

Lemons of Love

Grant in 2023
Lemons of Love is a nonprofit organization that offers customized care packages for people to make a donation and delivers care packages to oncology and hospital settings.
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