Jackie DiMonte @ Chicago Ventures on Maturation of Chicago VC, Seed Investing in 2020, & Impending Series A Crunch
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“Chicago is such a diverse economy and ecosystem. There is finance, logistics, healthcare, insurance and basically every category of the GDP. There’s this presence there and probably a handful of fortune 500 that are that sector. And I think because of that, it makes Chicago a really interesting place to build a company.”
Jackie DiMonte is a Partner at Chicago Ventures, a seed-stage Venture Capital firm based in Chicago. She began her career at Accenture as a consultant. She then worked for an IoT startup named Silver Spring Networks while receiving her MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Jackie entered Venture Capital at Hyde Park Venture Partners prior to becoming a Partner at Chicago Ventures.
In this episode, we covered:
The maturation of Venture Capital in Chicago
A recap of seed investing in 2020
Prognosis for seed investing in 2021
The impending Series A crunch
NFT's
Painting
And much more.... Please Enjoy!
You can find Jackie on LinkedIn & on Twitter and Chicago Ventures at their website.
Resources discussed:
Jackie’s newsletter Day by Jay,
Seeding the Exception article
Her NFT - Floating Houses.
Manifold Group is a venture holding company based in Chicago with offices in Dallas, Los Angeles, and soon Atlantic Canada. Early stage private investments represent an extraordinary investment opportunity, but existing investment models in the space leave much to be desired.Manifold is a new model for growth in the new economy, designed to create and capture value at the early stage through synergies across its venture fund, incubation and acceleration studio, and advisory firm. Learn more about Manifold at https://www.manifold.group.
