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Top 25 Venture capital backed companies based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 168 venture capital backed companies headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,551 professional contacts across them, including 583 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers venture capital backed companies 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 14, 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.
The 25 largest venture capital backed companies based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in Chicago, Waud Capital Partners is a leading growth-oriented private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Portal Innovations is a premier venture development engine that bridges scientific ideation in life sciences, medtech, and bioinformatics through commercial proof of concept by…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Early stage venture firm focused on life science discoveries to prevent, detect and cure disease.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 40 years, First Analysis has been at the forefront of supporting emerging growth companies and established leaders across high-growth, technology-driven sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HPA is a leading early-stage investor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2011, G Squared is aligned to a fundamental shift: venture-backed companies are staying private longer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Baird Capital makes venture capital, growth equity and private equity investments in strategically targeted sectors around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We're a hands-on, collaborative, and entrepreneur friendly early stage venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Abundant Venture Partners was founded on the belief that healthcare’s most important challenges are too complex for any organization to solve alone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TechNexus Venture Collaborative (TechNexus) invests in relationships between leading corporations and ambitious entrepreneurs to Rethink Growth™.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Moderne Ventures invests in technology companies in and around real estate, finance, insurance, home services and sustainability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Valtruis invests in, builds, and partners with companies that challenge the healthcare industry’s status quo and revolutionize the way care is accessed, delivered, experienced…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Disruptive technology investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “2Flo Ventures is a startup studio and venture capital firm dedicated to accelerating impactful innovation in healthcare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “11 Tribes Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that proactively invests in the resilience of entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a collection of entrepreneurs who brought our offline industries online.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “7wire Ventures is an early stage, healthcare venture fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary founders building the defining companies in the fifth economic era - the Artificial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We partner with founders for their journey ahead, investing with flexibility and scale to build companies that last.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
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: venture capital backed companies. 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 venture capital backed companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of venture capital backed companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name venture capital backed companies. 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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Venture capital backed companies based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
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 168 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 venture capital backed companies, 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 “venture capital backed companies”. 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 venture capital backed companies), 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 venture capital backed companies, 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, 583 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 14, 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.
Venture capital backed companies by metro in the United States
- Venture capital backed companies in New York724
- Venture capital backed companies in San Francisco634
- Venture capital backed companies in Los Angeles210
- Venture capital backed companies in Palo Alto201
- Venture capital backed companies in Boston181
- Venture capital backed companies in Chicago168
- Venture capital backed companies in Austin130
- Venture capital backed companies in Menlo Park126
- Venture capital backed companies in Miami106
- Venture capital backed companies in New York City75
- Venture capital backed companies in Dallas73
- Venture capital backed companies in Atlanta70
- Venture capital backed companies in Houston69
- Venture capital backed companies in Washington64
- Venture capital backed companies in San Diego56
- Venture capital backed companies in Seattle55
- Venture capital backed companies in Cambridge52
- Venture capital backed companies in Denver48
- Venture capital backed companies in Santa Monica45
- Venture capital backed companies in Philadelphia33
- Venture capital backed companies in San Jose32
- Venture capital backed companies in San Mateo31
- Venture capital backed companies in Salt Lake City29
- Venture capital backed companies in Mountain View28
- Venture capital backed companies in Nashville26
- Venture capital backed companies in Beverly Hills25
- Venture capital backed companies in Los Altos25
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 venture capital backed companies, 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 venture capital backed companies are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 168 venture capital backed companies 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?
Waud Capital Partners, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most venture capital backed companies?
New York leads with 724 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (634) and Los Angeles (210).
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 583 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 168 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 14, 2026.
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