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Midwest 2005 Venture Capital Forum
About Midwest: 2005
On September 28, 2005, Springboard held the Midwest 2005 Venture Capital Forum featuring emerging growth women-led businesses. The Forum showcased 11 women-led companies from the Midwest to an audience of corporate, angel and venture investors.
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Venture-catalyst Springboard Enterprises is the platform where entrepreneurs, investors, corporate officials, sector experts and service providers meet to build great women-led businesses together. Springboard sources, qualifies, coaches, showcases and supports high growth potential companies seeking equity capital for product development and expansion.
Northwestern University's Center for Women Entrepreneurs in Technology
The Center for Women Entrepreneurs in Technology is a regional business assistance center and incubator for women-led technology companies through Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
Partners
Supporters
- Chicago Community Ventures
- DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
- Dykema Gossett
- LaSalle Bank
- McKinsey Consulting
- Northern Trust
- Northwestern University
- re: invention, Inc.
- RSM McGladrey
- The University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship
Contributors
Venture Partners
- Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center
- LFE Capital
- Hopewell Ventures
- Illinois Technology Department Alliance
- SB Partners
- Association of Women's Business Centers
- Economic Development Council
- Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization
- Illinois Venture Capital Association (IVCA)
- KC SourceLink
- Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center
- Minnesota High Tech Association
- Network of Women Entrepreneurs
- North American Women's Business Organization (NAWBO)
- Rockford EDGE
- University of Missouri - Kansas City Henry W. Block School of Business
- Women Advancing Bioscience (WABio)
- Women's President Organization
- WorldWIT
Co-Chairs
- Edward J. Condon, Jr., Paradigm Capital Ltd.
- Bob Geras, LaSalle Investments
- Misty Gruber, Dykema Gossett
- Kathleen Swan, Dykema Gossett
Members
- Allegra Biery, The Northern Trust Company
- Beth Blom, National City Bank
- Karen Buckner, MK Capital
- Ellen Carnahanm, William Blair Capital Partners
- Candice Cherwin, Foley & Lardner LLP
- Tom Churchwell, ARCH Development Partners LLC
- Michelle Collins, Svoboda, Collins LLC
- Aimee Daniels, CapX Partners
- Linda Darragh, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
- Leslie Davis, SB Partners/Shorebank Capital
- Hillary Ebach, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
- Venita Fields, Smith Whiley & Company
- Lauren Flanagan, SCIO Corp
- Sharon Flanagan, McKinsey & Company
- Lisa Flashner, New World Ventures
- Siobhan Flynn, The Northern Trust Company
- Deborah Gersh, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
- Annette Gilchrist, CueBiotech
- Deborah Gordon, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
- Karen Harris, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
- Chris Hemans, City of Chicago
- Kathryn Hyer, Illinois Ventures
- Karen Kurek, RSM McGladrey, Inc.
- Kristi Lafleur, Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Development
- Jeffrey Lampe, Gazelle TechVentures
- Stephanie Marcucci, University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship
- Bret Maxwell, MK Capital
- Judith Meyer, Portage Venture Partners, LLC
- Lorraine Miller, Plante & Moran
- Maura O'Hara, Illinois Venture Capital Association
- Kirsten Osolind, Reinvention, Inc.
- Tom Parkinson, Hopewell Ventures
- Laura Pearl, Frontenac Company
- Danny Rosenberg, Sterling Venture Partners
- Ellen Rudnick, University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship
- Bill Sutter, Hopewell Ventures
- Margaret Unetich, Chicago Community Ventures
- Maryann Waryjas, Katten Muchin Rosenmann LLP
- David Wilhelm, Hopewell Ventures
