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Websitenewworldvc.com
Twitter@NewWorldVC
Phone312.447.6000
Emailinfo@newworldvc.com
Employees7
Founded1996

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111 S. Wacker Drive
Suite 4000
Chicago, IL, 60606
USA
Los Angeles, USA
11111 Santa Monica Blvd.
Suite 1650
Los Angeles, CA, 90025
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New World Ventures

Founded in 1996, New World Ventures is Chicago’s largest and most innovative technology venture investor. New World brings to bear a combined 100 years of venture capital and entrepreneurial experience, a broad network of strategic relationships, thought leadership and idea generation, and multi-stage investment capital that help entrepreneurs and management teams build market-leading, world class information technology companies.

New World Ventures is unique for its tremendous flexibility with size, structure and duration of an investment, allowing it to stand on the same side of the table with entrepreneurs who simply want to build great businesses. Along with more than 70 venture investments made, and the backing of The Pritzker Group run by J.B. Pritzker and Tony Pritzker, its partners bring a strong reputation of integrity and a focus on excellence. New World’s engagement with local and national entrepreneurship organizations, close relationships with industry specific mentors and partners, and strong track record of success allows it to add value for entrepreneurs and companies on day one.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Simple.TV 4/13Venture Round$5.7M2
FindTheBest 3/13Series B$11M3
SpotHero 12/12Venture Round$2M7
Retrofit 11/12Series A$8M5
IO Data Centers 10/12Venture Round$90M1
Perfect Audience 10/12Seed$1.1M10
Citybot 9/12Seed$750k4
Food Genius 9/12Series A$1.2M6
SpotHero 8/12Angel$460k2
MyCabbage 8/12Venture Round$950k3
AwesomenessTV 8/12Series A$3.5M8
Analyte Health 7/12Venture Round$22M3
Big Frame 6/12Seed$3.4M12
Eventup 6/12Seed$1.8M5
71lbs 6/12Seed$75k2
Orbeus 6/12Seed$350k2
Cureeo 6/12Seed$75k2
frintit 6/12Seed$75k2
Pictarine 6/12Seed$75k2
Fibroblast 6/12Seed$75k2
Lasso 6/12Seed$75k2
Moxie Jean 6/12Seed$75k2
Whimseybox 6/12Seed$75k2
Pindrop Security 5/12Venture Round$1M6
BrightTag 4/12Series C$15M5
Retrofit 3/12Venture Round$2.7M24
Kontiki 2/12Series C$5.1M4
Aisle50 1/12Venture Round$2.6M7
BodyShopBids 1/12Series A$1M3
Eved 1/12Series B$9.5M2
BeachMint 1/12Venture Round$35M9
Power2Switch 12/11Venture Round$1.3M4
Shortlist 12/11Seed$310k7
BrightNest 11/11Seed$950k5
BrightTag 8/11Venture Round$5M4
SinglePlatform 8/11Series A$3.25M5
SMS Assist 6/11Venture Round$15M1
Buzz Referrals 6/11Seed$75k2
CookItFor.Us 6/11Seed$75k2
Exchangery 6/11Seed$75k2
Food Genius 6/11Seed$75k2
Goshi 6/11Seed$75k2
Power2Switch 6/11Seed$75k2
IntroFly 6/11Seed$75k2
Alliance Health Networks 6/11Venture Round$11M4
Joystickers 6/11Seed$75k2
Sittercity 4/11Series B$22.6M5
Alltuition 3/11Seed$1M5
GiveForward 2/11Venture Round$500k3
Univa 1/11Venture Round$7M6
FleetMatics 12/10Series C$68M3
Kontiki 10/10Series B$10.7M3
BrightTag 8/10Series A$3M4
Playdom 6/10Series A$33M4
Apptera 6/10Venture Round$10M4
Firm58 6/10Series C$7M2
Zinch 10/09Venture Round$4M1
TopSchool 3/09Series B$7M4
Univa UD 5/08Series B$8M5
Firm58 5/08Series B$8.5M2
Firm58 4/07Series A$3.7M1
TicketsNow 1/07Series A$34M4
NewRiver 1/06Venture Round$20.6M4
Everdream 9/05Series F$20M5
Lefthand Networks 9/05Series C$25M11
Univa UD 8/05Series A$8M4

Videos

Sources

  1. Simple.TV Raises $5.7 Million From New World Ventures To Move Beyond Its DVR Box (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Data-Driven Comparison Shopping Platform FindTheBest Raises $11M From New World, Kleiner Perkins And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. SpotHero Raises $2.5M From Battery, Lightbank To Help You Reserve Parking In Garages (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Another Win For Quantified Self And Big Data Startups: Weight Loss Platform Retrofit Gains An $8M Series A Round Led By DFJ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. IO pulls in $90M to bring sustainable data centers to a global market (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  6. Y Combinator-Backed Perfect Audience Makes Facebook Retargeting Easy (Even For Tech Bloggers), Raises $1.1M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  8. Food Genius Sanres $1.2 VC Investment (chicagobusiness.com) [edit]
  9. Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Deal Management Platform DealsGoRound Becomes MyCabbage, Raises $950K From Groupon Founders (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  11. OMG! AwesomenessTV closes $3.5M Series A round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  12. Analyte Health Raises $22M for Online Medical Services (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  13. Video Company Big Frame Raises $3 Million To Discover The Next Wave Of YouTube Stars (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  14. Eventup Raises $1.8M to Book Intimate Events (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  15. Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  16. Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  21. Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  23. Chicago’s Excelerate Labs Graduates Ten Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  24. Pindrop Security Raises $1M From Andreessen Horowitz To Detect And Block Phone Fraud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. blogs.wsj.com [edit]
  26. Fitness startup Retrofit raises $2.7M from Chicago investors (articles.chicagotribune.com) [edit]
  27. Kontiki Closes $5.1M Series C (pehub.com) [edit]
  28. Aisle50 Lands $2.6M To Save You 50% On Organic Batter Blaster (And Other Fine Foods) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  29. Lightbank, OCA Put $1M In Auto Repair Marketplace BodyShopBids (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. Eved Raises $9.5 M To Expand Its Online Marketplace For Meeting & Events Industry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  31. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  32. Power2Switch Raises $1.3M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  33. Excelerate Labs Portfolio (exceleratelabs.com) [edit]
  34. Citation Needed [add]
  35. BrightTag Raises Additional $5M (finsmes.com) [edit]
  36. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  37. SMS Assist Raises $15m from New World Ventures (finsmes.com) [edit]
  38. Excelerate Labs Portfolio (exceleratelabs.com) [edit]
  39. Excelerate Labs Portfolio (exceleratelabs.com) [edit]
  40. Excelerate Labs Portfolio (exceleratelabs.com) [edit]
  41. Excelerate Labs Portfolio (exceleratelabs.com) [edit]
  42. Excelerate Labs Class of 2011 (exceleratelabs.com) [edit]
  43. Excelerate Labs Portfolio (exceleratelabs.com) [edit]
  44. Excelerate Labs Portfolio (exceleratelabs.com) [edit]
  45. Alliance Health Raises $11 Million For Condition-Specific Social Networks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  46. Excelerate Labs Portfolio (exceleratelabs.com) [edit]
  47. Sittercity Raises $22.6 Million To Connect Families With Caregivers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  48. EduLender Raises $1 Million For Student Loan Comparison Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  49. GiveForward Raises $500K To Be The Kickstarter For Medical Expenses (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  50. Univa Closes Additional $7M in Funding (univa.com) [edit]
  51. FleetMatics GPS raises $68m in growth capital (altassets.com) [edit]
  52. Kontiki Raises $10.7M in Series B Funding (kontiki.com) [edit]
  53. BrightTag Raises Series “A” Round Led by TomorrowVentures & New World Ventures (businesswire.com) [edit]
  54. techcrunch.com [edit]
  55. Apptera Raises Another $10 Million For Its Voice & Visual Mobile Advertising Networ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  56. Firm58 Raises $7 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
  57. Zinch.com Raises $4MM Led by New World Ventures (zinch.com) [edit]
  58. TopSchool Raises $7 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
  59. EDGAR [edit]
  60. EDGAR [edit]
  61. Firm58 Fueled by $3.7 Million Venture Capital (firm58.com) [edit]
  62. techconfidential.com [edit]
  63. EDGAR [edit]
  64. Everdream Secures $20 Million in Series F Funding (everdream.com) [edit]
  65. LeftHand Networks Secures $25 Million in Series C Funding. (goliath.ecnext.com) [edit]
  66. Univa secures $8M to speed its commercial grid software (computerworld.com) [edit]
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