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IVCA Newsletter – March 4, 2026

By Kathy Pyne | March 5, 2026

Association News

IVCA Feature: New Member Profile of McNally Capital

Coming up next week! Webcast – Deep Dive on Transaction Liability Insurance

Opportunity for VCs: BoilerLaunch Student Startup Pitch Event


Legislative News

IVCA Provides Updates for State Legislative Issues – 03/04/2026

New California Reporting Requirements May Affect Illinois VC Firms


IVCA Events

March 11, 2026 – IVCA Insurance Market Webcast Series – #2 Deep Dive on Transaction Liability Insurance


Other Events of Interest

March 5, 2026 – Venture Forward’s “VC Power Hour”

July 20 – 26, 2026 – TECHICAGO Week 2026


Industry News

Uber to Acquire OCA Ventures Port Co Parking App SpotHero

Wynnchurch Capital to Acquire Arcosa Marine

Cincinnati’s FinOpsly raises $4.45 million Seed Round to automate the “Control Plane” of AI and cloud costs; Hyde Park Venture Partners Participates

Patriot Capital Announces Investment in Flash-Rite

Baird Capital Invests in autoLOTO

Monroe Capital Supports First Reserve’s Acquisition of WGI, Inc.

The Vistria Group Announces New Partnership with Lumen Holdings to Capitalize on Growth in Specialty MGA Market

Thoma Bravo to Acquire WWEX Group and Combine with Auctane to Form Global Logistics Leader

Benford Capital Port Co Argus Monitoring Solutions Expands North American Platform with Acquisitions of Civionic Engineering & Consulting and Piedmont Geologic

Frontenac Port Co Dealer Services Network Expands Footprint with Acquisition of MVD Express

Monroe Capital Selected as the 2025 CLO Manager of the Year by Private Debt Investor

Pfingsten Named to 2026 TOP 50 PE Firms for Founders in the Middle Market™ List


Professional Advisor News

Ropes & Gray Advised Management on the Proposed Acquisition of Aluminium Dunkerque by Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) from American Industrial Partners (AIP)

BDO Private Equity Perspectives Podcast Episode 55A – Tariffs, Interest Rates, and Dry Powder:  Lessons from 2025 for the Year Ahead

Delaware Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of SB 21: The Amended Section 144 Safe Harbors Are Here to Stay – Troutman Pepper Locke

Vedder Represents L Squared Capital Partners in its Acquisition of Functional Devices

GI Partners to Acquire Charles River Laboratories’ CDMO and Cell Solutions Businesses

Food and Beverage Industry Updates 2026 – Troutman Pepper Locke

Ropes & Gray Advised Secured Lenders in PosiGen Chapter 11 Proceedings

Materiality Scrape Meets the Absence of Changes Representation: Delaware Superior Court Establishes Order of Operations for Deal Attorneys – Troutman Pepper Locke

New Mountain Capital Portfolio Company Azuria Water Solutions Acquires Waterline Renewal Technologies

Ropes & Gray at with.Intelligence’s 19th Annual Women’s Private Equity Summit

Michael Beauvais Honored by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as a 2026 Go To Lawyers for Business Transactions


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.

NextGen Growth Partners – Director, BD

Gies College of Business – Specialized Faculty (Open rank, non-tenure rank) Dept. of Finance, Venture Capital

7wire Ventures – Principal Role 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…