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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:

June 26, 2023 IVCA Invitational Golf Event – Want to sponsor?

By Kathy Pyne | January 17, 2023

January 18, 2023 Mark your calendars for the 2023 IVCA Invitational Golf Event on June 26, 2023, as we return to Olympia Fields Country Club!…

IVCA Feature: New Member Profile of Decasonic

By Kathy Pyne | January 17, 2023

January 18, 2023 In this new year, the new member participants in the Illinois Venture Capital Association (IVCA) keeps expanding, giving the current membership new…

Pritzker Private Capital Elevates Chris Trick to Co-Head of its Manufactured Products Group

By Kathy Pyne | January 17, 2023

CHICAGO – January 12, 2023 – Pritzker Private Capital (“PPC”), a leader in family direct investing, today announced the elevation of Investment Partner Chris Trick to…

Pritzker Private Capital Port Co Valicor Environmental Services Acquires Usher Oil

By Kathy Pyne | January 17, 2023

Monroe, Ohio – January 5, 2023 – Valicor Environmental Services (“Valicor”), North America’s largest provider of non-hazardous wastewater treatment and recycling services, today announced it…

IVCA Provides Updates for State Legislative Issues – 12/21/22

By Kathy Pyne | January 17, 2023

Illinois Venture Capital Association Illinois Legislative ReportDavid Stricklin / Stricklin & AssociatesWednesday, December 21, 2022 ILLINOIS FINANCES INFORM LOOK AHEAD TO 2023 SESSION Lawmakers convene for…

IVCA Feature: 2023 Predictions for Venture Capital and Private Equity, by the Online Financial Press

By Kathy Pyne | January 4, 2023

January 4, 2023 We have arrived. Happy 2023, and in a transitioning previous year for Venture Capital and Private Equity, where will we go from…

IVCA Newsletter – January 4, 2023

By Kathy Pyne | January 4, 2023

Association News IVCA Feature: 2023 Predictions for Venture Capital and Private Equity, by the Online Financial Press On December 5th, IVCA and over 400 IVCA…

IVCA Provides Updates for State Legislative Issues – 01/04/2023

By Kathy Pyne | January 4, 2023

Illinois Venture Capital Association Illinois Legislative ReportDavid Stricklin / Stricklin & AssociatesWednesday, January 4, 2023 LAME DUCK OPENS Legislators and the governor are in Springfield…

IVCA Newsletter – December 21, 2022

By Kathy Pyne | December 27, 2022

Association News IVCA Feature: The Best Quotes and Perspectives of 2022 On December 5th, IVCA and over 400 IVCA Members Celebrated 3 Great Awardees IVCA…

On December 5th, IVCA and over 400 IVCA members celebrated 3 great Awardees

By Kathy Pyne | December 27, 2022

After hearing an update from IVCA Chair Jennifer Steans on the State of our Association, we presented the Portfolio Company of the Year Awards.  The…