Chicago Ventures

Congrats! 🎉 CV portfolio company Aeropay announces $20M Series B. Read more in TechCrunch below, and please join us in congratulating CEO and Founder Daniel Muller on the company's progress!

🎉 AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP #StateofAgeTech celebrated Prisidio's dedication to helping #seniors & #familycaregivers make #caregiving more #accessible and personalized! 🦸♂️🦸♀️ Prisidio is a digital vault 🔐 that securely organizes sensitive information, helping seniors and #caregivers manage end-of-life plans at their own pace, so they can focus on living well. For more on Prisidio and the state of this hugely important #tech category from AARP: http://bit.ly/3XikPL2

👀 Sunbit is getting looks this year 👀 🏆 Financial Times's list of The Americas' Fastest Growing Companies 2024 (and #3 in the #fintech, #financialservices and #insurance category) 🏆 Forbes Best Startup Employer in 2024 🏆 FinTech Breakthrough's Best Consumer BNPL Platform ...and now they're on the Inc. Magazine #Inc5000 for the 3rd year in a row! 🏆🎉

🚢🏗️🚚 Shippers and carriers cite extreme weather events as their top transportation challenge in 2024... 🌊🌀💨 As we move into the worst part of hurricane season, project44 has guidance to help your #supplychain weather the storm 💪 ✅ Carrier diversification ✅ Strategic safety stock ✅ High-quality data For more, check out #project44's piece in Supply & Demand Chain Executive ↘️

How did Kin Insurance achieve #37 on Inc. Magazine's 2024 #Inc5000 list? With 7,000% revenue growth from 2020-2023! 🎉 That's also good enough to make them #1 in Illinois and #2 in the insurance category! 💫 For more on #Chicago's representation on the #Inc5000 👉 Chicago Business Journal

🎉 Congratulations to our great CV portfolio companies that made this year's #Inc5000 📈 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America! 💫 🌟 Kin Insurance (#37) 🌟 Sunbit (#638) 🌟 G2 (#4131) We love to see this well-deserved recognition of all your hard work! 👏

Worried about cargo theft? 🏗️🚚🚨 Don't click that link!! ✋ Forget about those old heist movies; the biggest criminal threats to your #supplychain are now phishing and data/credential theft 💻👮 For more on the risks, and what you can do about them, read project44 in Security Magazine

🌇 Get excited for the Chicago Inno #FireAwards later this month with this preview of the 2024 "burning hot" winners 🔥 – including CV portfolio companies and #Chicago fire-starters Aeropay 🏦 and Dina 🏥 – that Chicago Business Journal Alex Zorn say are "really starting to burn hot and are approaching major milestones in their growth journeys" ❤️🔥

Kin Insurance delivers strong Q2 2024 financials – 38% growth in gross written premium YOY, reaching $264.8 million YTD! 📈🚀💪 "In Q2 we continued to grow fast while generating positive operating income," said Sean Harper. "Our baseline operating margins were 38%, even while we invested heavily in expanding our tech and data moat, demonstrating Kin's potential to be a very high margin business." "We grew New Written Premium 55% year over year, which was an acceleration in the pace of growth, while still maintaining a very efficient ratio of growth to growth related expenses."

🌟 Exciting week for G2 as they add Tim Sanders – Harvard University Fellow, best-selling author, and formerly of Yahoo & Upwork – as new VP of Research Insights 🎉 "With Tim's deep experience and expertise in analyzing data to reveal trends, he will be an asset and ambassador for the G2 brand," G2 CEO Godard Abel. "I can't wait for Tim to take our data and insights to the next level, and I know he is equally excited for the opportunity G2 has in the market right now." Follow G2 and Tim Sanders for data-driven insights on #b2bsoftware, and for more about Tim and his new role