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Apr 2, 2026
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Team
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Leadership Team
Key people at Illinois Ventures.
NH
Nancy Harvey
Senior Director, Principal
PC
Patrick Casey
Senior Associate
BG
Bridget Gallagher
Assistant Director, Marketing and Project Management
PM
Paul Magelli
Director, Illini Angels
CV
Christopher Valera
Business Administrative Associate
TP
Tom Parkinson
Senior Director
NS
Nancy Sullivan
CEO & Managing Director
Leadership Team
Key people at Illinois Ventures.
Nancy Harvey
Senior Director, Principal
Patrick Casey
Senior Associate
Bridget Gallagher
Assistant Director, Marketing and Project Management
PM
Paul Magelli
Director, Illini Angels
Christopher Valera
Business Administrative Associate
Tom Parkinson
Senior Director
NS
Nancy Sullivan
CEO & Managing Director
Financial History
Total Raised
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Valuation
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Investments Made
Date
Company
Round
Lead Investor(s)
Co-Investor(s)
Jan 20, 2026
Samara Aerospace
$10.0M Seed
Balerion Space Ventures
Access Venture Partners
, MFV Partners
Dec 3, 2025
Excelsior Sciences
$95.0M Grant / Series A
James Flynn
, Nessan Bermingham
, Edward Kliphuis
MIT
, Eli Lilly and Company
, Hope Knight
Dec 14, 2023
Cadenza Bio
$2.4M Seed
Justin Wilson
Boyd Street Ventures
,
Cortado Ventures
,
Oklahoma Life Science Fund
May 1, 2022
Natrion
$2.0M Seed
TechNexus Venture Collaborative
7GC & Co
,
BlueRun Ventures
,
Camber Creek
,
Conductive Ventures
,
Grit Capital Partners
,
Interplay Ventures
,
Left Lane Capital
,
M13
,
QEY Capital
,
Raine Ventures
, Dennis Crowley
, Kevin Hart
, Whitney Cummings
, Mark Cuban
, Tamarack Global
Oct 21, 2021
Mesh
$4.9M Seed
World Within
Anorak Ventures
, First Leaf Capital
,
GAN Ventures
,
Lateral Capital
,
SOSV
,
TechNexus Venture Collaborative
Dec 14, 2020
Network Perception
$2.7M Seed
Energy Foundry
, Jeff Bocan
, Rob Schultz
Early Light Ventures
,
SaaS Ventures
,
Service Provider Capital
May 24, 2019
Gokada
$5.3M Series A
Nazar Yasin
Adventure Capital
,
IC Global Partners
Aug 1, 2017
Kin Insurance
$4.0M Other Equity
—
500 Startups
,
Chicago Ventures
,
Commerce Ventures
,
Omidyar Network
,
Portage
Mar 29, 2016
Havenly
$5.8M Series A Extension
Binary Capital
Chicago Ventures
,
Foundry Group
Jan 20, 2015
Chromatin
$12.0M Series F
Illinois Ventures
,
Wood Creek Capital Management
—
Sep 1, 2014
Rithmio
$650K Seed
Marcin Kleczynski
Hyde Park Venture Partners
, Erik Moore
,
BonaVentura
,
Fox Ventures
,
Serra Ventures
,
Techra Investments
Jan 9, 2014
Chromatin
$36.0M Series E
Bob Saul
Adventures IV
, BP Alternative Energy
,
Equity
,
GE Capital
,
State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Nov 6, 2013
Phi Optics
$250K Seed
Serra Ventures
Newport Holdings
Oct 1, 2013
Persio
$3.0M Series A
Brent Hill
Corazon Capital
,
Hyde Park Venture Partners
,
Hyde Park Angels
,
OCA Ventures
Mar 20, 2013
ShareThis
$23.0M Series C
—
Blue Chip Venture Company
,
DFJ
,
Harbourton
,
Matthew Pritzker Company
, Blair Garrou
,
RPM Ventures
,
West Capital Advisors
Nov 9, 2012
Personify
$3.5M Series A
—
AMD Ventures
,
Liberty Global Ventures
,
Serra Ventures
Oct 25, 2011
Chromatin
$10.0M Series D
—
Justin Adams OBE
,
Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund
,
Quantitative Investment Holdings
,
Unilever Ventures
Jul 7, 2011
Caterva
$1.2M Seed
Illinois Ventures
Bill Tai
,
RPM Ventures
,
Serra Ventures
Jun 1, 2011
Semprius
$20.0M Series C
Siemens Venture Capital
HG Ventures
,
Applied Ventures
,
ARCH Venture Partners
, GVC Investment
, In-Q-Tel
,
Intersouth Partners
Jan 23, 2008
ShareThis
$6.0M Other Equity
—
Tim Schigel
,
DFJ Mercury
,
Queen City Angels
,
RPM Ventures