Mark Kendall
Accelerators play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Illinois Accelerators. 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 Illinois Accelerators
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Techstars Chicago
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Techstars Chicago conducts programs for startups to connect with investors, mentors, and entrepreneurs.
Healthbox
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Healthbox is a an innovation consulting and fund management services firm, helping organization build and sustain innovation strategies.
REACH
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
REACH is an accelerator with a focus on technology companies in the real estate and adjacent industries.
Sandbox Industries
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Sandbox bridges the gap between startups and corporations in three ways: strategic venture funds, accelerators, and consulting services.
Financial Solutions Lab
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
The Financial Solutions Lab cultivates, supports and scales innovations that advance the financial health of LMI and underserved individuals
Clean Energy Trust
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Startup Competition, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Clean Energy Trust supports early-stage startups working on solutions for clean energy, decarbonization, and environmental sustainability.
Cleveland Avenue
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Cleveland Avenue is a Chicago-based venture fund and accelerator that invests in food, beverage, and tech businesses.
Financial Health Network
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Grant, Seed
Financial Health Network is a trusted resource for business leaders united in a mission to improve the financial health of their customers.
EMERGE CoLab (Powered by TechNexus Venture Collaborative)
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
The gateway to an ecosystem of enterprises, startups, first responders, and cities building tech to increase productivity and public safety.
Lofty Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Family Investment Office, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
We help passionate founders, disruptive startups and innovative organizations change the world.
Elmspring Accelerator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Seed
A seed-stage tech accelerator for start-ups in real estate and its related industries.
EVC Ventures
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
EVC Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital fund that focuses on early-stage startups.
Relish Works
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Relish Works is an innovation hub focused on challenging the status quo and pioneering the next evolution of the food industry.
iVenture Accelerator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
An Educational Accelerator for top student startups at the University of Illinois
Envestnet
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Envestnet is a provider of technology-enabled investment and practice management solutions to financial advisors.
Brand Accelerator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Brand Accelerator is a startup accelerator backed by multiple major brands that allows major brands make partnering with startups.
University of Chicago New Venture Challenge
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, University Program
Investment Stage:
Launched in 1996, the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC) is one of the nation’s premier business launch programs.
MATTER
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
MATTER provides the healthcare industry with technology solutions to improve products and services.
Portal Innovations
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Portal Innovations invests in therapeutics, med tech, and bioinformatics startups with strong leadership teams.
Excelerate Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Excelerate Labs is one of the summer accelerator programs for startups, goal is to empower startups with connections, capital and communit.
New Mobility World
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Seed
New Mobility World – Inside the Future of Mobility and Transportation
Chicago Venture Summit
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Seed
Chicago Venture Summit is an event that showcases the best early-stage tech companies in the Midwest.
Workbox Company
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Co-Working Space, Incubator
Investment Stage:
Workbox is a Coworking Accelerator that provides bold companies with the resources to grow faster, smarter and together.
Insight Accelerator Labs
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Seed
Insight’s Accelerator Labs is an accelerator program distinctly focused on helping medical device startups.
Good Food Business Accelerator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
The Good Food Business Accelerator gets farm and food businesses ready for prime time, giving them the skills to launch or scale up.
StartUp Port
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Startup Port is a hybrid support platform that offers venture development solutions for early stage entrepreneurs.
Vantedge Ventures | Healthcare Innovation Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Syndicate, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Focused on the investment and cultivation of novel technologies, devices, and methodologies to solve everyday problems in healthcare.
iVentures10
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
iVentures10 is designed to fuel the entrepreneurial energy and ingenuity of computer science and engineering students.
SmartHealth Activator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Seed
Accelerating innovation for biotech
Unreal Collective
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Seed
Unreal Collective is the community for founders and freelancers.
EdTech Venture Fund
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Venture
Campus Consortium’s Venture Capital Arm (Rebranded to EVC Ventures)
DWG Business X-celerator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Grant, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
We select and grow most promising ukrainian and international projects providing strategic development programs: seed and VC financing.
Moderne Passport
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Immersive, seven month long programmatic experience that provides expertise, positioning, exposure, and insight to drive customer growth.
Greater Waukegan Development Coalition
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Greater Waukegan Development Coalition
Engelwood Accelerator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Engelwood Accelerator is a small business accelerator operated by the Greater Englewood Community Development Corporation.
Cocktail Meal Kits Accelerator Programme
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Cocktail Meal Kits Accelerator Programme is for restaurant owners who want to run Cocktail Meal Kits.
Women’s Tech Accelerator by Brad Deals
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Women’s Tech Accelerator by Brad Deals provides the resources and support to Chicago-based female entrepreneurs with great business ideas.
EGrAccelerator
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
EGrAccelerator focuses on the financial readiness of the startups.
Coalescense Tech
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Coalescense Tech builds open source tools that creators can use to make their own CPU and GPU.
Pizza Meal Kit Accelerator 2020
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Pizza Meal Kit Accelerator 2020 helps restaurants, grocers, or small businesses start a Meal Kit service easily.
Asian Meal Kit Accelerator Programme
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Asian Meal Kit Accelerator Programme helps restaurants, grocers, or small businesses start a Meal Kit service easily.
Startup Boost 2020 Spring Chicago
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Accelerator
Investment Stage:
Startup Boost 2020 Spring Chicago lead pre-seed stage startups towards Accelerators, Investment, and/or Revenue (AIR).
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