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IVCA Newsletter – January 7, 2026

By Kathy Pyne | January 7, 2026

Association News

IVCA Feature: The Best Quotes and Perspectives of 2025

IVCA Announces 2026 Board Leadership

Get ready for Summer 2026: Host an IVCA Scholar and Help Shape the Future of PE/VC

Round Two Applications Now Open for the 2026 IVCA Scholar Program!


Legislative News

IVCA Provides Updates for State Legislative Issues – 01/07/2026


IVCA Events

Check back for our 2026 Calendar of Events!


Other Events of Interest

January 30, 2026 – VC University Bootcamp – Application Deadline


Industry News

First Analysis invests in supply chain test automation platform Cycle Labs

Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of PROS Holdings, Inc.

Monroe Capital Supports Growth of Recognize Partners’ SDG Corporation

Azul Closes Strategic Investment from Thoma Bravo

Wind Point Partners Combines Turf Masters with Portfolio Company ExperiGreen

Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Verint, a Leader in AI-Driven Customer Experience Automation

GTCR Partners with Ownership Works to Advance Employee Ownership Across its Portfolio

Agent Capital Awarded “Partner of the Year” by Penn Center for Innovation, University of Pennsylvania

Runway Growth Capital Welcomes Ryan McCarthy as Managing Director

RCP Advisors Recognized by Pensions & Investments’ Best Places to Work in Money Management and Crain’s 2025 Best Places to Work in Chicago

Monroe Capital Launches Monroe Capital Enhanced Corporate Lending Fund (MLEND)

Water Street Healthcare Port Co Hansen Hunter and LTC Consulting Join Forces

Victory Park Capital Announces New Warehouse Facility with Zip, Expanding Long-Standing Partnership


Professional Advisor News

Sidley Represents BioRender in Investment Valuing Company at $900 Million

Ropes & Gray Advised McNally Capital on Airforce Turbine Service Acquisition

Sidley Represents Aboitiz Equity Ventures on Their Strategic Partnership With Global Infrastructure Partners in Aboitiz InfraCapital

Ropes & Gray Advised Steward Partners in Securing Strategic Capital from Ares

Sidley Represents Armis in Its US$7.75 Billion Sale to ServiceNow

Ropes & Gray Names New Leadership Team for Corporate Practices to Accelerate Opportunity and Outcomes for Clients

Sidley Represents ABM In Its US$275 Million Acquisition of WGNSTAR

TPG to Acquire Majority Stake in Conservice

Sidley Represents Lumexa Imaging in US$462.5 Million Initial Public Offering

Ropes & Gray Advised Specialty Alliance in $15 Million Cosan Strategic Growth Investment

Sidley Represents Apollo Funds in Majority Investment in Prosol Group

Oriflame Closes Transformative Recapitalisation Transaction, Delivering Approximately €500 Million Debt Reduction


Job Postings

Please view the full details for each Job Posting listed below, on our website HERE. Once at Job Postings please scroll down the pages to view the jobs. They are listed chronologically as received, most current first.

7wire Ventures – Associate & Principal Roles in Chicago

Decasonic – AI Operations Manager

TechNexus Venture Collaborative – Sr. Accountant

NEWS ARCHIVE:

IVCA Feature: IVCA Profile: Elle Ramel, Chicago Director of GET Cities

By Kathy Pyne | January 29, 2024

January 31, 2024 When GET CITIES (GET stands for Gender Equity in Tech) was founded in 2020, their goal was to tackle a burgeoning tech…

IVCA Newsletter – January 17, 2024

By Kathy Pyne | January 18, 2024

Association News IVCA Feature: Updates and What’s Coming Up for Office Environments in 2024 Legislative News IVCA Provides Updates for State Legislative Issues – 01/17/2024…

IVCA Provides Updates for State Legislative Issues – 01/17/2024

By Kathy Pyne | January 17, 2024

Illinois Venture Capital Association Illinois Legislative ReportDavid Stricklin / Stricklin & AssociatesWednesday, January 17, 2024 2024 SESSION OFF TO A COLD START Literally and figuratively.…

Wind Point Partners Acquires MOREgroup

By Kathy Pyne | January 17, 2024

Chicago, Ill., January 17th, 2024 – Wind Point Partners (“Wind Point”), a Chicago-based private equity firm, announced today that it has partnered with MOREgroup (or…

IVCA Feature: Updates and What’s Coming Up for Office Environments in 2024

By Kathy Pyne | January 16, 2024

January 17, 2024 With people coming back to work in 2024, post holidays and two years past the thick of the pandemic, what do American…

IVCA Newsletter – January 3, 2024

By Kathy Pyne | January 3, 2024

Association News IVCA Feature: 2024 Predictions for Venture Capital and Private Equity, by the Online Financial Press Legislative News IVCA Provides Updates for State Legislative…

IVCA Provides Updates for State Legislative Issues – 01/03/2024

By Kathy Pyne | January 3, 2024

Illinois Venture Capital Association Illinois Legislative ReportDavid Stricklin / Stricklin & AssociatesWednesday, January 3, 2024 The Illinois Legislature holds its first session days January 16,…

IVCA Feature: 2024 Predictions for Venture Capital and Private Equity, by the Online Financial Press

By Kathy Pyne | January 3, 2024

January 3, 2024 The new year is here … Happy 2024. As we begin another journey, what will 2024 indicate, and how will it affect…

Pritzker Private Capital Acquires HeartLand

By Kathy Pyne | January 2, 2024

CHICAGO – (December 14, 2023) – Pritzker Private Capital (“PPC” or “the Firm”), a leader in family direct investing, today announced a partnership with HeartLand,…

How Families Can Effectively Harness the Advantages of Their Capital While Avoiding the Pitfalls and Hazards of Direct Investing – By Paul Carbone

By Kathy Pyne | January 2, 2024

This article was originally published in Family Capital on December 14, 2023. This piece is the third in a three-part series published in Family Capital…