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Top 24 Minority-focused venture capital firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 44 minority-focused venture capital firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 360 professional contacts across them, including 87 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers minority-focused venture capital firms 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, how directly it supports the match, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 5, 2026.
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The 24 largest minority-focused venture capital firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 | ||||
“HPA is a leading early-stage investor.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | OCA VenturesStrong evidence | 38 | |||
“We're a hands-on, collaborative, and entrepreneur friendly early stage venture capital firm.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Vitalize Venture CapitalStrong evidence | 29 | |||
“VITALIZE Venture Capital is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund and angel community investing in the future of work.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Jump CapitalStrong evidence | 21 | |||
“Jump Capital is a founder-focused, low-ego early-stage venture firm investing in Fintech, application software, and infrastructure.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 17 | ||||
“We are a collection of entrepreneurs who brought our offline industries online.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 16 | ||||
“We partner with founders for their journey ahead, investing with flexibility and scale to build companies that last.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 16 | ||||
“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: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | LongjumpPartial evidence | 15 | |||
“LongJump is a first-check venture fund, based in Chicago, designed to invest in the next generation of founders.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 15 | ||||
“Chicago:Blend is a 501c3 nonprofit organization working to create a more inclusive venture capital and startup ecosystem.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 12 | ||||
“We give founders better odds.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Tensility Venture PartnersIndirect evidence | 9 | |||
“We seed and grow companies that will revolutionize business by delivering the promise of AI to the enterprise.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Spiral SUN VenturesPartial evidence | 9 | |||
“We are a seed capital fund that promotes a healthier lifestyle by investing in companies that create better-for-you consumer products.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 8 | ||||
“Distributed Ventures backs bold founders innovating at the frontier of risk.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | NEW Stack VenturesIndirect evidence | 7 | |||
“New Stack was founded in 2015 with a mission to invest in the Outsiders.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 | ||||
“We provide a sustainable platform where residents and business owners can leverage the capital and assets of a large institution to rebuild and reconstruct commercial corridors…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Fifth Star FundsPartial evidence | 4 | |||
“Fifth Star Funds is a first-of-its-kind philanthropic venture fund dedicated to addressing the racial funding gap in entrepreneurship.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 | ||||
“We advise, mentor and invest in exceptional founders of early stage companies.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | u.venturesPartial evidence | 3 | |||
“u.ventures backs technology companies from pre-seed to Series B.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Seyen CapitalPartial evidence | 3 | |||
“Seyen Capital is a Chicago based VC fund.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Marquee VenturesStrong evidence | 2 | |||
“Marquee Ventures is venture capital fund anchored by the parent company of the Chicago Cubs and Marquee Sports Network.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 | ||||
“Genius Guild, a Chicago-based venture capital firm building a new kind of venture platform focused on creating a world where everyone gets alpha-Investors, Founders, and…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Purvi CapitalPartial evidence | 2 | |||
“The motivation for Purvi Capital took shape as the great blizzard of 2011 poured sleet and snow at rates exceeding 4 inches/hour over Chicago streets.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Urban ArrayPartial evidence | 1 | |||
“Urban Array is a minority-led restorative investment nonprofit that invests in entrepreneurs of color, redirecting money, energy, and creativity into divested communities.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 | ||||
“Diverse businesses are an engine for economic growth and community empowerment in the United States.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
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Minority-focused venture capital firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 5, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than this city, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 44 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 minority-focused venture capital firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and evidence 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 SmartSearch, 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 “minority-focused venture capital firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among minority-focused venture capital firms, 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 an evidence 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, 87 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 5, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Minority-focused venture capital firms by metro in the United States
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in New York221
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in San Francisco202
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in Los Angeles83
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in Palo Alto49
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in Boston46
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in Chicago44
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in Atlanta37
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in Menlo Park36
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in Austin33
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in Miami33
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in Houston28
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in Dallas27
- Minority-focused venture capital firms in New York City26
Frequently asked
How many minority-focused venture capital firms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 44 minority-focused venture capital firms 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 has the most minority-focused venture capital firms?
New York leads with 221 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (202) and Los Angeles (83).
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 87 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 44 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 5, 2026.
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