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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for FinTech startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jump Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America | ||
Lightbank | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America | ||
Promus Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America | ||
Origin Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America | ||
Financial Solutions Lab | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top FinTech Early Stage Venture investors in Illinois. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top FinTech Investors & Funds (Illinois)
Jump Capital
Jump Capital is an early-stage venture firm that provides capital and strategic resources for companies within the fintech, IT/Data infrastructure, crypto, future of commerce/media, and B2B SaaS sectors. Strong attraction to companies focused on prescriptive/deep data, passionate and tenacious management teams, and founders with an execution-focused mindset. Jump’s philosophy is to align with talented management teams that desire a trusted partner with real-world operating experience and a firm with an operating platform targeting initial investment checks between $2M to $10M.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Cryptocurrency, Digital Media, FinTech, IT Infrastructure, SaaS
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Lightbank
Lightbank VC is a $380M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k – $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Clearcover, Extend and Expel.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: EdTech, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Human Resources, Internet, Local, Mobile, Small and Medium Businesses
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Promus Ventures
Investing in visionary and tenacious early-stage software and hardware teams.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, AgTech, FinTech, Robotics, Software, Space Travel, Venture Capital
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Origin Ventures
Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth software, marketplace, and consumer businesses shaping the ‘Digital Native Economy’. Founded in 1999, the firm has the unique distinction of having multiple funds in the top 5% on realized performance. Typical check size is $500K to $8M. Select exits include Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB), BacklotCars, Tock, Ahalogy, and Teem. To learn more, visit www.originventures.com.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Financial Solutions Lab
The Financial Solutions Lab was established in 2014 to cultivate, support, and scale innovative ideas that help improve financial health. We focus on solutions addressing acute and persistent financial health challenges faced by low- to moderate-income (LMI) individuals, Black and Latinx communities, and other underserved consumers. The Financial Health Network manages the Financial Solutions Lab in collaboration with founding partner JPMorgan Chase and with support from Prudential Financial.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Asset Management, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Non Profit
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DRW Venture Capital
DRW Venture Capital, an arm of principal trading firm DRW, invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology. Many of our portfolio companies benefit from our engagement beyond capital: as a client, as a liquidity provider, through our review of new products, and through our deep industry expertise. As a firm with no outside investors, we have a flexible mandate to deploy capital and often tap into our core business to help companies grow. We’re powered by the people, technology and ideas of DRW, and those we invest in may leverage it all. DRW has diversified business expertise and deep networks in trading and technology, real estate investment, cryptocurrencies and product development — a unique advantage.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Leo Capital Holdings
Leo Capital Holdings, LLC is a privately funded venture investor making investments in early and later stage private companies. Their focus is primarily in the wireless and consumer electronics sectors. They like ventures that target very large markets, and consider investment opportunities across the United States. Leo maintains a broad network of contacts, investors and advisors with whom they work after investing to help build value, and usually make investments that allow for their active involvement.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Northbrook, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Venture Capital
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CME Ventures
CME Ventures is the corporate venture capital and strategic investment arm of CME Group focused on building and managing a portfolio of external minority equity investments. CME Ventures acts as a bridge between core CME Group businesses and external partners to inform a firm-wide understanding of emerging market structure changes while investing in key areas of opportunity. The team’s primary goal is to drive quantifiable strategic growth and shareholder value across all areas of the firm.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech, SaaS, Trading Platform
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R7 Partners
R7 Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies building transformational technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Air Transportation, Enterprise Software, Finance, FinTech, Robotics, Transportation
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METEOR MCCK LLC
MVP along with our investors partner with founders empowering them to scale their business for long term excellence. Working collaboratively, providing a strategic approach that pairs an operational focus with unparalleled investment opportunities, giving us the highest probability of success
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, Health Care, SaaS
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Prota Ventures
Prota Ventures is a venture-building and early-stage investment firm engaged in investing in early-stage companies. The firm aims to launch inspiring new ventures and invest in early-stage founders. It generates ideas internally and co-lab projects with organizations and founders seeking strategic partnerships, conduct comprehensive experiments to test the viability of new teams, markets, and products, designs and builds hardware and software, including financial models and optimal legal structures for success, and helps companies bring prototypes to life, acquire customers, and recruit talents to facilitate growth. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 2016.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, Venture Capital
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Hygeia Capital LLC
Hygeia Capital is a revolutionary technology development firm that incubates and monetizes cutting edge, analytics intense technologies for the Financial and Healthcare sectors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech
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