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Top 25 Venture capital firms based in Chicago, United States
The Chicago venture capital firms directory lists 95 companies, 1,128 contacts, and 231 email addresses. Use this directory to research venture capital firms and identify relevant business contacts. Across the United States, San Francisco is the largest hub for this category (450 companies); Chicago has 95.
Venture capital firms invest in privately held companies, typically in exchange for an ownership stake. This list covers companies that invest or manage capital in privately held businesses through venture capital funds or related investment vehicles. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 14, 2026.
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The 25 largest venture capital firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HPA is a leading early-stage investor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “87 is an affiliate of Sterling Partners, a multi-strategy investment firm founded over 35 years ago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Earth Foundry is a pioneering early-stage venture capital firm, recognized globally for our ability to identify, invest in, and scale the most transformative startups in critical…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We give founders better odds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IDL Ventures is an innovative Internationalization Platform and Fund focused on onboarding 2 Cohorts a year of early-stage Deep Tech foreign companies with emerging tech and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Investing in the next generation of badass founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We seed and grow companies that will revolutionize business by delivering the promise of AI to the enterprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Distributed Ventures backs bold founders innovating at the frontier of risk.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Motivate Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “New Stack was founded in 2015 with a mission to invest in the Outsiders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a team of technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, and senior executives with deep expertise in our industries, building belonging, and driving impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CIC is an angel syndicate investing in early-stage founders building turnkey solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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 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 firms. 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 firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of venture capital firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name venture capital firms. 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 firms 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 95 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 firms, 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 firms”. 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 firms), 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 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 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, 231 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
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Venture capital firms by metro in the United States
- Venture capital firms in San Francisco450
- Venture capital firms in New York422
- Venture capital firms in Los Angeles133
- Venture capital firms in Palo Alto127
- Venture capital firms in Boston94
- Venture capital firms in Austin85
- Venture capital firms in Miami78
- Venture capital firms in Menlo Park72
- Venture capital firms in Houston59
- Venture capital firms in Atlanta46
- Venture capital firms in Dallas44
- Venture capital firms in New York City44
- Venture capital firms in Seattle43
- Venture capital firms in Washington41
- Venture capital firms in San Diego39
- Venture capital firms in Santa Monica38
- Venture capital firms in Cambridge34
- Venture capital firms in Denver30
Frequently asked
How many venture capital firms are based in Chicago, United States?
This directory includes 95 venture capital firms based in Chicago, United States as of September 2026.
Which city in the United States has the most venture capital firms?
San Francisco leads the United States with 450 headquartered companies, followed by New York (422) and Los Angeles (133). Chicago has 95.
How can I find contacts at venture capital firms?
This directory includes 1,128 contacts and 231 email addresses associated with the listed venture capital firms.
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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.
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