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Lofty Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Chicago, Illinois 2,309 followers
We help passionate founders, disruptive startups and innovative organizations change the world.
About us
Lofty Ventures is a growing community of Chicago’s most passionate founders building our city’s next generation of disruptive startups, and the angel investors who back them. Our founders and investors are all bounded by a common thread, amazing people with vision and purpose. We’re laser focused on finding the best founders in Chicago and giving them all the resources necessary to be successful entrepreneurs, dynamic business leaders and exceptional people. Lofty’s growing family of 180 founders leading 100 startups collaborate and support one another throughout their entrepreneurial journeys. Our strength is building community and fostering relationships with one another, the broader Chicago community and the global tech ecosystem. Lofty Angels is over 300 investors strong and growing. We provide educational programming and investment opportunities for accredited investors who want to excel at early-stage investing. We also enable Lofty founders to become angel investors earlier in their career to: 1) become more savvy founders by understanding how investors think, 2) build diversification & hedge their risk, and 3) gain investing experience/reps early so they can write first-checks right when they exit. Lofty Ventures is not a venture capital firm, and although we don’t manage other people’s money, we do maintain a syndicate for our angel community. We like to invest as early as possible and add value right away by introducing potential investors, customers, advisors, directors, and team members. We typically invest from first-check to seed and deploy $10k to $100k initially, with potential for $100k to $500k in follow-on investment via our syndicate. Our post-money valuation (or cap) sweet spot is $3M to $5M pre-money, we’re industry agnostic but look for Chicago-based, tech enabled businesses. Our founders are exemplified by the following: 1) are givers (in Adam Grant's "Give & Take" sense), 2) brilliant, 3) scrappy/gritty, and 4) have problem-founder-fit.
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- Chicago Tech, Angel Investing, Community, Startups, Early-stage Ventures, Mentoring, and Advising
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I was quoted in Bloomberg yesterday about Chicago’s elected officials’ horrible proposal of expanding the cloud tax. Hope this helps wake up our deeply misguided local “leaders” 🙄🤦♂️ “This isn’t good,” said Chris Deutsch, founder of Chicago-based Lofty Ventures, which invests in startups. “They’re just going to keep ratcheting up these taxes and it’s going to really hurt business and the entire tech community here. Maybe not immediately but over time, this is a terrible trend and will absolutely hurt us.” ”Deutsch of Lofty Ventures said the new tax is “just the beginning” and is exactly what Rise Chicago, a non-partisan voter engagement group he co-founded, is trying to fight against - “anti-growth measures that are killing our city,” he said. The group is also backed by leaders including Ira Weiss, a founding member of Hyde Park Venture Partners.”
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📢 ATTN Lofty Ventures community and beyond! Lofty invested in Off Map back in 2020 because we saw the amazing opportunity for our community to come together for retreats on their gorgeous property, as well as our portfolio companies to do the same for their own teams there. Next summer we will host our third annual Lofty Camp at Off Map. Can’t recommend this place enough…check out loftycamp.com to see how awesome it was (and some of the pics OM shared of our 2024 camp below).
🏕️ Escape the Ordinary: Off Map Corporate Retreats 2025! 🌟 As we step into 2025, it’s time to redefine team building and innovation. At Off Map, we believe in the power of nature to unlock creativity and foster collaboration. This year, we are thrilled to invite your team to experience a corporate retreat like no other! 🚀 What We Offer: - Customizable retreat packages & turn-key options - Onsite luxury glamping accommodations - Space for breakouts, presentations, remote work, and group meals - Unique outdoor settings for activities 📅 Spots for 2025 are filling up fast! Visit our website or contact us directly to learn how we can help you create an unforgettable experience for your team. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dSXKhWxF #TeamBuilding #CorporateRetreats #Innovation #Nature #LeadershipDevelopment
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Thank you to the Eventnoire team for having me as a moderator and allowing me to represent Lofty Ventures at the first annual Curator Summit! I don't see a lot of events that bring brand partnership teams together to share their playbooks with others. Looking forward to the next one! I also want to thank my community who came out to support the event: Patti Heath, Jack Galobich, Sadiki McCalla, and Jess Lathan.
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Are you angel curious? Then please join us for our next Lofty Lunch & Learn with guest Sonia Sahney Nagar on Monday 11/18 @ 12:00 central. You can sign up for the live zoom event at the link below. The first half will be a discussion with me and Sonia and the second half will be audience Q&A so bring your angel investing questions! Lofty Angels is a free educational community that encourages people to learn angel investing and is brought to you by Lofty Ventures.
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Big fan of Favs and Saba is really driving it to be the anti-social networking app. It’s not about spending all your time on your phone…leverage your phone to get off of it and hang with the people you care the most about, your favs. Pretty freakin awesome idea…and something WE ALL NEED especially right now 🙏❤️👊
Social Media Consultant & Industry Expert | Keynote Speaker | Clients: Google, UK Government, Meta & More | As Seen In… NYT, WSJ, BBC News + Netflix's Depp vs. Heard
🚨 Hot New Social App Alert! 🚨 It's like if Instagram Notes and BeReal. had a baby... Is Gen-Z leading a social media reset? A fascinating counter-trend is emerging in social media... While Meta, X, and TikTok race to add AI features, an LA startup called Favs is betting on something radical: actual human connection. They just launched in the App Store and appears to be gaining some traction. Imagine Instagram Notes on steroids, but strip away everything that makes modern social media exhausting: ↳ No algorithms ↳ No ads ↳ No influencers ↳ No endless scrolling Just your real friends Why this is worth watching: ↳ BeReal proved simplicity resonates ↳ Notes is one of Instagram's fastest-growing features ↳ 78% of U.S. Gen Z prefer private messaging over public posts, highlighting a shift to personal interactions (Source: Sprout Social) Turns out, Gen Z might be tired of performing for strangers online. Some just want a simple way to keep up with their actual friends. Favs lets you: ↳ Post quick updates with text or photos ↳ Drag and drop emojis, pictures, and GIFs directly onto friends' avatar It's like a digital high-five without the clutter ✨ Download Favs on iOS: [Link in 💬👇] 🔥 Is an app like Favs the answer to social media burnout? Saba Karim [AD]
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Are you angel curious? On Monday, November 18th, we are hosting our next Lofty Lunch & Learn with Sonia Nagar, Founder & Managing Partner at SNAK Venture Partners, and our Founder Christopher Deutsch. This series allows you to learn how to angel invest from seasoned investors. If you'd like to join us, register here: https://lu.ma/nx7ehi4c 👼 #LoftyAngels
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Great engineering opp with Lofty Ventures co Kanary 👇
We’re hiring a product engineer! Why now? We’re launching something new & exciting. And we’re growing. Perks? Remote + quarterly retreats, clear values, epic mission, quirky team, no B.S. More details? https://lnkd.in/gTQ8C7Yd
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Great to be home for a few days just in time to join the Lofty Ventures Fall Party! Happy reunions with Chicago’s awesome angel investor community, led by Christopher Deutsch 🙌 We’re rallying the #angelcurious folks to get involved and make an impact, and Insperity is proud to be a supporter year after year! Special shout out to Amanda Lannert for joining us in spirit last night as Cody, John, Chris and I recreated our summer party photo, and her community slideshow pic popped up on the screen behind us (2 for 2!). About the #LoftyAngels community: The Lofty Ventures team is working to activate more early-stage angel investors by providing educational programming, community-building events and access to exclusive investment opportunities. We believe that our ecosystem is stronger via collective impact and that starts with enabling more angel investors to support early-stage founders. Through our Lofty Lunch & Learn sessions with renowned thought leaders, curated deal flow and opportunities to build relationships with fellow angels and VCs, we continue to grow the ways in which you can both grow as an angel investor, while also becoming involved with the broader Lofty community.
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Great time last night at Private Directors Association®’s event on AI with guest speakers: Muriel Clauson Closs, PhD from Anthill (a Lofty Ventures portfolio company) & Shane O'Flaherty from Microsoft Watch this fantastic primer on AI from Muriel…she’s brilliant! HUGE thanks to Brian Ruddy & Jamie Paul at Lofty’s Lead Partner Bank of America for inviting us!