ABOUT US

The Illinois Venture Capital Association advocates for a strong Illinois business climate for private investors in private companies by:

  • Promoting a pro-growth public policy platform

  • Facilitating member networking

  • Introducing underrepresented groups to the business of private company investing

  • Collaborating with organizations of mutual interest

In addition, IVCA works with entrepreneurial organizations in the Midwest to encourage a strong cycle of innovation and business creation leading to superior investment opportunities.

Awards Dinner

Active IVCA Members

IVCA members include an impressive array of investor firms and service providers - all leaders in their fields and the private equity community.  IVCA investor firms are engaged at all stages of private investment - from very early stage seed and venture investments through buyouts-in private companies.

IVCA Investor Member Firms include organizations engaged in all phases of private equity investment, from early stage through buyout stage.

  • 4490 Ventures
  • 5th Century Partners
  • 50 South Capital Advisors, LLC
  • 7wireVentures
  • Adams Street Partners, LLC
  • Agent Capital
  • Arbor Investments
  • ARCH Venture Partners
  • Avathon Capital
  • Baird Capital
  • Blue Venture Fund
  • BPOC
  • Buoyant Ventures
  • Chicago Pacific Founders
  • CORE Industrial Partners
  • Cressey & Company LP
  • Decasonic
  • Duchossois Capital Management
  • Financial Investments Corporation
  • First Analysis
  • Frontenac
  • Growth Catalyst Partners
  • GTCR LLC
  • H.I.G. WhiteHorse
  • High Street Capital
  • Hyde Park Angels
  • Hyde Park Venture Partners
  • Jump Capital
  • KB Partners, LLC
  • Kinzie Capital Partners
  • Linden Capital Partners
  • Listen Ventures
  • Long Arc Capital
  • M25
  • Madison Dearborn Partners LLC
  • May River Capital, LLC
  • Mesirow Financial Private Equity
  • Method Capital
  • Mid Oaks Investments LLC
  • MK Capital
  • Moderne Ventures
  • Monroe Capital LLC
  • New Enterprise Associates
  • NewSpring Capital
  • OceanM19
  • OCA Ventures
  • Origin Ventures
  • Paragon Biosciences
  • ParkerGale Capital
  • Patriot Capital
  • Periscope Equity
  • Plymouth Growth
  • PPM America Capital Partners, LLC
  • Prairie Capital
  • Pritzker Group Venture Capital
  • Pritzker Private Capital
  • Prospect Partners LLC
  • RCP Advisors LLC
  • Red Arts Capital
  • RiverGlade Capital
  • RoundTable Healthcare Partners
  • Runway Growth Capital
  • Sandbox Industries LLC
  • Shore Capital Partners
  • SSM Partners
  • Supply Change Capital
  • Svoboda Capital Partners
  • The Edgewater Funds
  • The Vistria Group
  • Thoma Bravo, LLC
  • Valor Equity Partners
  • Victory Park Capital
  • Water Street Healthcare Partners
  • Wind Point Partners
  • WP Global Partners
  • Wynnchurch Capital
  • Zebra Ventures

IVCA Service Provider Member Firms include the most experienced and recognized names in professional services. These IVCA members support venture capital and private equity firms.

  • 7 Layer Solutions Inc
  • Andersen
  • Baker Tilly US, LLP
  • BDO USA, LLP
  • CIBC Bank US
  • Cooley LLP
  • EY
  • Freeborn & Peters LLP
  • Greenberg Traurig, LLP
  • Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered
  • Houlihan Lokey
  • JP Morgan
  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • Kirkland & Ellis LLP
  • KPMG LLP
  • KRD - Kutchins, Robbins & Diamond, Ltd.
  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • Locke Lord LLP
  • Martin Partners
  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • McDermott Will & Emery LLP
  • Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
  • Pacific Western Bank
  • Plante Moran
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • RSM US LLP
  • Sidley Austin LLP
  • Silicon Valley Bank
  • Simon Compliance LLC
  • Stern Cassello & Associates, LLP
  • The Northern Trust
  • Thompson Flanagan & Co.
  • Valuation Research Corporation
  • Vedder Price P.C.
  • White & Case LLP
  • William Blair
  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • Wintrust Commercial Bank

IVCA's Academic Members include universities and laboratories with business relevancy to the venture capital or private equity profession.

  • Heizer Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth)
  • University of Illinois - College of Business / Office of the Vice President for Research

Honorary Members have been invited to enjoy the benefits of IVCA membership due to their long-term commitment to venture capital/private equity in the state of Illinois.

  • Chicago Teachers Pension Fund
  • Golder Investment Management
  • Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
  • Illinois State Board of Investment
  • State Universities Retirement System
  • Teachers' Retirement System of Illinois

Meet the IVCA Board of Directors

IVCA Chairperson

Jim Macdonald
First Analysis

IVCA Vice-Chair

Phil Alphonse
The Vistria Group

IVCA Treasurer

Jeffrey Piper
Semper Fi Partners

IVCA-PAC Co-Chair

Jim TenBroek
Growth Catalyst Partners

IVCA-PAC Co-Chair

Rocco Martino
OceanM19

IVCA-PAC Vice-Chair

Tony Palcheck
Zebra Ventures

IVCA-PAC Vice Chair

Lee Mitchell
Thoma Bravo, LLC

 

Alex Abell, RCP Advisors
Tamim Abdul Majid, OCA Ventures
Joanna Arras, Baird Capital
Dave Crouch, Mid Oaks Investments
Jeff Diehl, Adams Street Partners, LLC
Jason Felger, Jump Capital
Walter Florence, Frontenac
Constance Freedman, Moderne Ventures
Chip Grace, May River Capital
Victor Gutwein, M25
Krista Hatcher, Chicago Pacific Founders
John Hennegan, Shore Capital Partners
Stephen Jeschke, GTCR
Steve Kaplan, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth)
Chris Killackey, Prairie Capital
Mark McDonnell, ARCH Venture Partners
Alex Meyer, Origin Ventures
Bob Morgan, 50 South Capital Advisors, LLC
Matt Norton, Madison Dearborn Partners LLC
Troy Phillips, BPOC
Jennifer Steans, Financial Investments Corp
Shoshana Vernick, Avathon Capital
Ira Weiss, Hyde Park Venture Partners
Dana Wright, MATH Venture Partners
John Yeager, H.I.G. Whitehorse
Christie Pruyn, IVCA Executive Director
Maura O'Hara, IVCA Advisor