Founded in 2016, Dipalo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois. It focuses on investing in deep tech sectors such as connected devices, advanced manufacturing, medical technology, energy, and climate-related innovations.

IllinoisVENTURES is a venture capital firm established in 2002, based in Chicago, Illinois, with additional offices in Champaign and Urbana. The firm specializes in seed to early-stage investments, focusing on research-derived companies in information technologies, life sciences, and physical sciences. IllinoisVENTURES primarily targets startups linked to the University of Illinois and other businesses within the state. The firm typically invests between $25,000 and $200,000 and prefers to act as a lead or co-lead investor in its portfolio companies, fostering the growth of innovative technologies and scientific advancements.

Founded in 2011, Hyde Park Venture Partners is a Chicago-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. It focuses on high-growth technology startups across the Midwest, with an emphasis on software and tech-enabled businesses. The firm typically invests between $0.1 million to $2.5 million, co-investing with Hyde Park Angels. They actively mentor portfolio companies, supporting product development, business strategy, financing, and exit strategies.

Serra Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Champaign, Illinois, that invests in technology companies across the United States and select international locations. The firm concentrates on early-stage and growth opportunities in information technology, deep technology, instrumentation, software as a service, devices, B2B, and agricultural technologies, with a focus on the Midwest and West Coast regions. Serra Ventures supports portfolio companies through strategic guidance, networks, and resources to help scale technology-enabled businesses.

Founded in 2013 by Drexel University students Yakir Gola and Rafael Ilishayev, Gopuff is a pioneering instant commerce platform that delivers essential products directly to consumers' doorsteps. Its extensive product range includes over-the-counter medicine, baby food, cleaning supplies, snacks, beverages, and select alcoholic drinks, ensuring customers can satisfy their needs and cravings promptly.

Founded in 2013, Cresco Labs is a vertically-integrated multi-state cannabis operator headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It cultivates, manufactures, and distributes cannabis products under its national dispensary brand Sunnyside, with a mission to normalize and professionalize the industry.

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices across North America. It provides access to venture investing for individual accredited investors, particularly alumni networks, by offering diversified portfolios of venture opportunities and allowing members to invest alongside fellow alumni in ventures led by peers. The firm backs early-stage and later-stage opportunities across technology, consumer, healthcare, financial services, and other sectors, with a sector- and geography-agnostic approach. It typically invests between $10,000 and $3 million per deal and emphasizes the involvement of alumni connections and an institutional lead investor in opportunities. Alumni Ventures also offers focused funds to broaden participation, enabling accredited investors to access venture portfolios diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. The model aims to democratize access to venture capital while maintaining rigorous selection standards through alumni networks.

Innovation Endeavors is a Palo Alto–based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that backs early-stage technology companies in the United States and Israel. With offices in Silicon Valley, New York and Tel Aviv, it invests across sectors including artificial intelligence software, fintech, cybersecurity, robotics, climate tech, computing infrastructure, life sciences, logistics, and the physical economy. The firm supports founders developing transformative technologies at the intersection of data, computation and engineering, aiming to accelerate growth and global impact. Its portfolio reflects a focus on innovative solutions addressing emerging global needs.

Hercules Capital is a specialty finance company that provides senior secured loans and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies across various stages of development in technology, life sciences, and sustainable and renewable technology industries. With over a decade of experience, Hercules offers innovative financing solutions tailored to each company's capital structure and business objectives.

Acre Venture Partners is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that backs companies redefining the food system. It invests in platform businesses across the food value chain, with emphasis on agriculture, food tech, climate tech, and consumer verticals. The firm seeks disruptive ventures that address large-scale human and environmental health problems by delivering scalable, systemic improvements in food and agriculture.

New Coast Ventures is a Chicago-based firm established in 2014 that specializes in web and mobile development, providing tailored solutions for both Fortune 500 companies and startups. The firm acts as a strategic partner for larger organizations, facilitating innovation as an entrepreneur-in-residence, while also supporting smaller companies by integrating into their teams. New Coast Ventures focuses on building products, launching new businesses, and offering design and consulting services in mobile and responsive web development. In addition to its development efforts, the firm invests in early-stage companies, particularly in the consumer internet, enterprise software, marketplaces, and mobile commerce sectors.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage, pre-seed technology startups in underserved segments of the ecosystem. It invests in a high-volume, capital-efficient portfolio, typically funding rounds of 50,000 to 500,000 and making roughly 75 to 100 investments per year. The firm targets opportunities across the United States and internationally, including Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe, prioritizing companies with scalable products and prudent capital use outside major metro hubs. Since its inception, it has built a broad portfolio across many states. It commits to a fast decision process, often delivering a yes or no within two weeks to help founders establish momentum.

Camber Creek is a venture capital investment firm focused on technology-related opportunities in real estate. Headquartered in Rockville with an office in New York, the firm concentrates on investing in real estate technology companies across the United States. It leverages expertise across real estate sectors such as construction, property management, development, and leasing, and combines investing, operating, and technology know-how with the assets of its partners, investors, and advisors to support the growth and success of its portfolio companies.

Forefront Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established in 2014 and based in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm focuses on investing in innovative post-revenue companies, targeting early-stage ventures led by dynamic entrepreneurs. Forefront Venture Partners typically commits between $200,000 and $500,000 in Seed and Series A funding rounds, aiming to support growth-oriented businesses as they scale.

CHL Medical Partners is a venture capital firm focusing on seed and early-stage investments in the life sciences and healthcare sectors in the United States. It backs companies across biotechnology, molecular diagnostics, medical devices, life sciences tools and services, and healthcare delivery innovations, including consumer healthcare and elder-care solutions. The firm typically acts as lead investor, aims to build long-term co-investment syndicates, seeks board representation, and may take interim management roles in seed investments. It provides follow-on financing and helps portfolio companies raise capital in public and private markets. Investment activity generally targets early-stage opportunities, with a history of supporting companies through initial rounds and exits via acquisitions or other buyers. CHL Medical Partners was founded in 1997 and is based in Connecticut.

Boulder Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 1995. It focuses on early-stage information technology and life sciences companies, investing in areas such as communications software and services, network infrastructure, information management, and biotechnology tools including drug discovery. The firm targets opportunities in Colorado and the Mid-Atlantic region and typically participates in initial investments with potential follow-on capital, often aiming to lead deals in its portfolio companies.

Founded in 2015, Method Capital is a Chicago-based venture capital firm focusing on growth stage investments in B2B technology companies. They typically invest $1 million to $10 million, with an ideal initial investment size of $5 million, in companies that have recurring revenue and scalable business models.

Acequia Capital specializes in advising early-stage founders and teams who are passionate about harnessing software to drive business innovation. The firm partners with entrepreneurs from the initial stages of idea development and team formation through to the eventual IPO, sale, or other exit strategies. Acequia Capital offers seed capital and assists in organizing initial investment groups, securing bridge financing when necessary, and leading or participating in subsequent equity financings from Series A onward. Additionally, the firm facilitates secondary sales to create a market for founders, employees, and investors, while also providing alternative financing solutions that align with the needs of companies and their stakeholders.

Split Rock Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2004. It specializes in investing in early-stage companies within the emerging healthcare, software, and internet services sectors across the Upper Midwest and West Coast regions of the United States.

Western Technology Investment is a California-based venture debt firm founded in 1980 that provides debt and lease financing to venture-backed technology and life science companies across North America. It targets early- and mid-stage, revenue-generating firms and offers flexible growth capital, sometimes with equity components such as warrants. The firm has extended more than three billion dollars of debt and equity capital to technology and life science companies ranging from early private to publicly traded. Based in Portola Valley, it focuses on technology-driven sectors and supports portfolio companies in scaling operations and achieving milestones through venture lending and growth financing.

Established in 1995, Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm committed to backing entrepreneurs with transformative ideas. Led by former entrepreneurs, the firm invests across various sectors including consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, fintech, and marketing technology. Notable investments include LendingClub, Sunrun, Netflix, and over 60 high-growth ventures.

GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in technology companies across various stages and sectors. Established in 2000, the firm has offices in Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Beijing, providing expansion capital ranging from $5 to $25 million for initial investments. GGV Capital focuses on companies operating in the U.S., China, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia, Europe, and Israel.

Notable Capital is named for the founders we invest with, the ideas they pursue, the causes they champion, and the remarkable companies they build. Notable is a U.S.-based venture capital firm focused on early-to-growth stage companies in cloud infrastructure and business and consumer applications across the U.S., Israel, Europe, Latin America, and select go-global opportunities. Notable portfolio companies include Affirm, Airbnb, Block, Brightwheel, Drata, Handshake, HashiCorp, Ibotta, Orca Security, Quince, Slack, Slice, StockX, Stori, Vercel, Zendesk, and more.

Essex Woodlands, founded in 1985, is a prominent healthcare venture capital firm that has raised nearly $2.5 billion through eight funds. With principal offices in Palo Alto, Houston, New York, and London, the firm employs a team of 23 professionals who collectively possess over 300 years of experience in the healthcare sector. Essex Woodlands focuses on diversified healthcare investing and has played a significant role as a lead investor in the founding and financing of more than 100 companies across various segments, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, services, and information technology. The firm is committed to early-stage investments while also having a strong track record in late-stage healthcare investments, encompassing mature venture, growth equity, and PIPE opportunities.

Ascension Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2012. It focuses on early-stage to growth investments in the United Kingdom, including SEIS and EIS eligible opportunities. The firm targets technology and media driven sectors such as digital media, creative industries, advertising technology, fintech, educational technology, health technology, and next generation platforms, as well as e-commerce, sustainability, energy, transport, and consumer goods. It supports seed to growth rounds and is open to co-investments with angels and other funds, aiming to exit investments in four to seven years. The firm emphasizes building practical partnerships with portfolio companies to foster scale and long-term value.

New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm founded in 1977 and based in Menlo Park, California, with offices in the United States, India and China. It makes investments across technology and healthcare startups at multiple stages, from seed to growth, including software, cloud, data, internet services, fintech, AI, e-commerce, and enterprise technology, as well as healthcare information technology, life sciences, medical devices, and biopharma. It also considers energy technology and infrastructure opportunities, such as solar, batteries and smart grids. The firm pursues a global approach, with activity in the United States, Asia and other regions, and supports companies through rounds of financing ranging from small to sizable investments as they scale. NEA focuses on building portfolios in software, IT services, consumer technology, and healthcare technology, backing ambitious entrepreneurs across sectors and geographies.