Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Greater Chicago Area Angel Investors. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top Greater Chicago Area Angel Investors
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Andrew Steinwold
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Andrew Steinwold Managing Partner @ Sfermion
Kyle Nakatsuji
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Kyle Nakatsuji is the CEO and Co-founder of Clearcover.
Mike Evans
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mike Evans is the co-‐founder and COO of GrubHub. Mike Evans graduated MIT in 2000 with a pile of degrees and an equally impressive pile of…
Vijay Talwar
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Vijay Talwar has served as our General Manager and President of International since March 30, 2012. He served as our interim chief executive…
Cyrus Younessi
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Cyrus is the Director of Research and Trading at Scalar Capital. Previously he was a digital currencies investment analyst at Cumberland Min…
Steve Sarowitz
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As Founder and Chairman, Mr. Sarowitz started Paylocity in 1997 with a small investment and a tremendous vision. His goal was to fill a gap …
Simin Zhou
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Venture
Simin leads UL Ventures, where we invest and innovate in new fields and technologies that advance safety, sustainability and security. Simi…
DHIRAJ C RAJARAM
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dhiraj is responsible for the organization’s vision and strategic direction, building teams, aligning organizational resources to a customer…
Daniel Hopp
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
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Daniel Hopp
Ryan Barretto
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Ryan Barretto
Ajith Samuel
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Ajith Samuel is Chief Product Officer at Exterro.
Tony Hunter
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Tony W. Hunter was appointed chief executive officer of Tribune Publishing in July 2011, assuming responsibility for the strategic prioritie…
Sarah Hagedorn
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
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Sarah Hagedorn Graduate Research Assistant at Dominican University.
Raymond S Cahnman
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Raymond S Cahnman
Ricardo Alvarez
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Market tested and widely accomplished C-level executive who delivers on aggressive top and bottom line targets for publicly-traded, PE and f…
Michael Alter
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Investor Type: Individual/Angel
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Michael Alter of the Alter Group and owner of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky.
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