IVCA Honors the 2023 Awardees and Maura O’Hara

December 13, 2023 On December 4th, IVCA hosted the 2023 IVCA Awards Dinner, presented by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, at the Four Seasons Hotel and celebrated this year’s slate of awardees. IVCA’s first Chairman of the Board, Carl Thoma, Thoma Bravo, led the attendees in a champagne toast to honor Maura O’Hara, outgoing IVCA Executive…

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IVCA Feature: The Best Quotes and Perspectives of 2023

December 13, 2023 Happiest of Holidays and peace in the coming New Year of 2024 to the membership of the IVCA. As we keep moving through the years, the VC and PE industries continue their unprecedented investment and success. Simultaneously, the IVCA continued in their mission to represent the VC/PE community and their support organizations…

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Pritzker Private Capital Promotes Anthony Cardona and Thomas Chadwick to Partner

CHICAGO – (December 6, 2023) – Pritzker Private Capital (“PPC”), a leader in family direct investing, is pleased to announce the promotions of Anthony Cardona and Thomas Chadwick to Investment Partner, effective January 1, 2024. The promotions of these tenured individuals recognize their significant contributions to PPC’s investing efforts, family of companies and internal culture.…

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IVCA Provides Updates for State Legislative Issues – 11/29/2023

Illinois Venture Capital Association Illinois Legislative ReportDavid Stricklin / Stricklin & AssociatesWednesday, November 29, 2023 CANDIDATES FILE A ritual of Illinois politics is candidates driving (usually) from across the state to Springfield to be part of the hoopla of filing petitions on the first day possible to run for nomination in March. And for it…

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IVCA Provides Updates for State Legislative Issues – 11/15/2023

Illinois Venture Capital Association Illinois Legislative ReportDavid Stricklin / Stricklin & AssociatesWednesday, November 15, 2023 VETO SESSION ROUND UP The Veto session ended on November 9th. The General Assembly passed 22 that will go to the Governor. Of the six gubernatorial vetoes under consideration, only one was accepted. This was the amendatory veto of the procurement omnibus…

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