By: Ben Freeberg MATH Venture Partners is a team of experienced entrepreneurs who are working hard to help build out the incredible venture and entrepreneurial community in Chicago. MATH forms deep and personal partnerships with entrepreneurs, other VC firms and...
By: Ben Freeberg It’s more about the people than anything else. Scout Ventures, one of Alpha Venture Partners’ more than 50 partner Venture Capital firms, loves to spend time meeting with founders and entrepreneurs early in the company’s life-cycle, well before Scout...
By: Ben Freeberg Operating since 2011, Flashpoint is taking a different approach to the accelerator process, and so far, the vision of founder Dr. Merrick Furst has come to fruition. Total fundraising for the first six batches of companies is over $300 million, and...
By: David S. Bennahum, Venture Partner @dbennahum “Used car salesman.” It’s an insult. Well, AVP just invested in a used car salesman! A big, disruptive, trustworthy used car salesman. Meet Vroom. Selling or buying a used car? It’s down there with “root canal” on...
David S. Bennahum, Venture Partner @alphavp This is the second part of a series. The first, on pricing unicorns, is here. This isn’t the first era of great technological innovation: The early 1980s saw the explosive growth of personal computers and video-game...
David S. Bennahum, Venture Partner @alphavp Much has been written this summer about unicorns– private companies valued at a billion dollars or more– and the “privatization” of technology IPOs. Unicorns live in a world where most of the upside from successful...
