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Top 25 Early stage venture capital investors based in Chicago, United States

Name: Early stage venture capital investors based in Chicago, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 80 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 80 early stage venture capital investors headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,085 professional contacts across them, including 245 with verified work emails. Across the United States, San Francisco is the largest hub for this category (324 companies); Chicago has 80.

This list covers early stage venture capital investors headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest early stage venture capital investors based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 80 early stage venture capital investors based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to early stage venture capital investors: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	HPA	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	56 contacts →
	Strong evidence “HPA is a leading early-stage investor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	G Squared	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	54 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 2011, G Squared is aligned to a fundamental shift: venture-backed companies are staying private longer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3	Allies For Community Business	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	47 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Allies for Community Business (A4CB) provides the capital, coaching, and connections entrepreneurs need to grow great businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4	Irishangels	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	47 contacts →
	Strong evidence “IrishAngels is a Notre Dame inspired angel investing group for experienced operators, executives, and founders who want to invest thoughtfully in early-stage companies and stay…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5	OCA Ventures	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	38 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We're a hands-on, collaborative, and entrepreneur friendly early stage venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6	Hyde Park Venture Partners	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	33 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth, mid-continent technology startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7	Vitalize Venture Capital	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	29 contacts →
	Strong evidence “VITALIZE Venture Capital is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund and angel community investing in the future of work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
8	Jump Capital	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Jump Capital is a founder-focused, low-ego early-stage venture firm investing in Fintech, application software, and infrastructure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9	R7	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	21 contacts →
	Strong evidence “R7 is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in the untapped potential of physical industries within the new industrial economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	Corazon Capital	Strong evidence	Chicago, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	16 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Born out of a love for building startups and a passion for backing entrepreneurs with heart, Corazon Capital (Spanish for “heart”), a leading Chicago-based venture fund, brings a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	Longjump	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	15 contacts →
	Partial evidence “LongJump is a first-check venture fund, based in Chicago, designed to invest in the next generation of founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12	The Gray Matter Experience	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are catalysts connecting youth to entrepreneurial education, mentorship, and experiences that ignite ownership, unrealized possibilities, and lasting change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	Chicago Ventures	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We give founders better odds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	Bridge Venture Fund	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Bridge is a Chicago-based, seed-stage venture capital firm investing in software and consumer businesses in overlooked categories underserved by innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Vcapital Management	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “With an in-depth focus on research and exceptional due diligence plus a 30-year track record, VCapital Management Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	Distributed Ventures	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Distributed Ventures backs bold founders innovating at the frontier of risk.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	Sandalphon Capital	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Sandalphon leads, co-leads or meaningfully participates in Pre-Seed and Seed stage rounds for B2B healthtech startups Primary industries of interest: HealthTech Tech-Enabled…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	Motivate Venture Capital	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Motivate Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	August Hill	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “August Hill was formed to partner with founding teams at the most critical inflection points in their company’s journey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	Incubator	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	7 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Incubator LLC is a non-traditional incubator based in Chicago, with personnel in various parts of the USA and around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	Kerosene	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Kerosene is a two-sided network connecting exceptional early-stage founders with 300+ venture capital firms across the US.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	Method Capital	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Method Capital is a Chicago-based venture capital firm specializing in growth stage investments in B2B technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	Innovyz USA	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Innovyz USA founds and builds world-changing companies by bringing together early-stage technologies, extensive business development experience, and access to capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	367 Ventures	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We advise, mentor and invest in exceptional founders of early stage companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	GEN 1 Capital	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: early stage venture capital investors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names early stage venture capital investors.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of early stage venture capital investors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name early stage venture capital investors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Early stage venture capital investors based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

22.6%Verified-email coverage

13.6Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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51-200

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 80 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among early stage venture capital investors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “early stage venture capital investors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names early stage venture capital investors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among early stage venture capital investors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 245 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Early stage venture capital investors by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names early stage venture capital investors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many early stage venture capital investors are there based in Chicago, United States?

RevenueBase identified 80 early stage venture capital investors headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

HPA, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United States has the most early stage venture capital investors?

San Francisco leads the United States with 324 headquartered companies, followed by New York (313) and Los Angeles (99). Chicago has 80.

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 245 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 80 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.