Location: Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives
Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives seeks to revitalize neighborhoods and create jobs by developing high-impact projects, providing financial resources to entrepreneurs and sustaining long-term community partnerships.
Allies for Community Business
Our mission is to provide the capital, coaching, and connections entrepreneurs need to grow great businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities. As a nonprofit located on Chicago’s West Side, A4CB prioritizes Black, Hispanic/Latinx, women, and low-income entrepreneurs throughout the Chicagoland area and beyond.
Cleveland Avenue State Treasurer Urban Success Fund (CAST US)
A $70M initiative that will bridge the capital and resource gap impacting Black, Latinx, and women entrepreneurs in Chicago’s South and West Side neighborhoods.
Chloe Capital
Despite recent progress, only 2% of female founders receive venture capital funding, with only .2% going to African-American founders. Chloe Capital is
Chingona Ventures
Chingona Ventures is an early-stage fund focused on investing in overlooked founders, businesses, and industries at the Pre-seed and Seed stages. We are industry agnostic but like to invest in financial, future of work, food, education, and health/wellness technology.
Moderne Ventures
An early stage venture fund focused on technology companies that are innovating within real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance, hospitality and home services—multi-trillion dollar industries that make up well over 20% of the US GDP and are ripe for innovation.
