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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 is now soliciting for our Sponsors!  New firms interested in sponsoring, please contact Kathy Pyne for information regarding levels of sponsorship available.  Returning sponsors have been contacted via email…

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 opportunities for networking, in addition to offering support and partnerships. This advantage keeps evolving the association and its advocation of Venture Capital, Private Equity and satellite industries. The latest new…

CHICAGO – January 12, 2023 – Pritzker Private Capital (“PPC”), a leader in family direct investing, today announced the elevation of Investment Partner Chris Trick to Co-Head of the firm’s Manufactured Products group. Mr. Trick will lead the Manufactured Products group alongside Operating Partner Terry Sutter. PPC’s Manufactured Products group invests significant capital in high-quality, growth-focused…

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 has acquired Usher Oil (“Usher”), a centralized wastewater treatment facility (“CWT”) in Detroit. The acquisition strengthens Valicor’s leading position in the Detroit market, enabling the company to provide sustainable wastewater…

Illinois Venture Capital Association Illinois Legislative ReportDavid Stricklin / Stricklin & AssociatesWednesday, December 21, 2022 ILLINOIS FINANCES INFORM LOOK AHEAD TO 2023 SESSION Lawmakers convene for the 2023 session in January and will receive the governor’s budget address mid-February. Watch for the legislature and governor to debate over how much of the growing revenue the state…

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 here? What will 2023 indicate, and how will it affect the VC/PE world? The predictors and prognosticators in the financial media have had their say, and offer the following articles/Podcasts/YouTube…

Illinois Venture Capital Association Illinois Legislative ReportDavid Stricklin / Stricklin & AssociatesWednesday, January 4, 2023 LAME DUCK OPENS Legislators and the governor are in Springfield this week for the final days of the current (102nd) Illinois General Assembly. The legislature meets today, Thursday and Friday, with a Saturday session on the books which is a…

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 award presentations were ably emceed by IVCA Vice Chair Jim Macdonald of First Analysis.  VC-Backed Portfolio Company of the Year Duncan Davis of Breakout Capital presented The Venture Capital-backed Portfolio Company of…

December 21, 2022 Happiest of Holidays and peace in the coming New Year of 2023 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,…

December 6, 2022 With three weeks left in 2022, the reports are coming in on the time period for Venture Capital and Private Equity. Each turn of the calendar post the pandemic era has contained its own personality and challenges, and 2022 has been no exception. From online articles around various financial report outlets, the…