This article showcases our top picks for the best Chicago based Impact Investment companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Impact Investment industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Chicago Impact Investment Companies
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Citadel
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Citadel is a leading investor in the world’s major financial markets. In markets around the world, we work relentlessly to uncover and capture new opportunities.
Across a diverse range of investment strategies, we deploy our capital with the goal of generating consistently high risk-adjusted investment results for our investors and capital partners. At our core, Citadel is built to deliver excellence.
We have some of the most talented and focused minds in the industry, and we activate their ideas and strategies through a robust range of proven technologies and execution capabilities.. .
The Applied Finance Group LTD
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The Applied Finance Group is financial equity research & consulting firm that corrects accounting distortions & deals with global markets.
Schlindwein Associates
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Schlindwein Associates is a financial firm that deals with investment and other financial services
Tetley Investments
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Tetley Investments is a full-service, independent financial advisory firm that only answers to you, making investments interesting.
Veltex
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Veltex develops and acquires companies that have established modalities in the areas of health, wellness, and recovery. It is a registered holding company, seeking to enhance shareholder value through aggressive recuperation of lost resources and assets while maximizing the worth of those recovered.
It was formed as a publicly traded corporation in the State of Utah in 1987. The common stock is listed for trading on the OTC Markets under the symbol “VLXC.” The principal executive offices are located at 123 West Madison Street, Suite 1500, Chicago, Illinois..
Sensefolio
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Artificial Intelligence ESG Data startup specialized in socially responsible investment #AI #ESG #SRI #AM #FinTech
Perritt Capital Management
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Perritt Capital Management specializes in investment solutions and deals with fund information, mutual funds and foreign securities.
Birchwood Healthcare Partners
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Birchwood Healthcare Partners is a Chicago-based health care real estate investment firm with a focus on health care real estate. It provides capital solutions to senior housing, nursing home, and specialty health care real estate owners and operators.
It was founded by Isaac Dole in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.. .
Morningstar
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Morningstar provides independent investment research to investors worldwide. It offers internet, software, and print-based products for individuals, financial advisors, and institutions.
It also supplies asset-management services to advisors, institutions, and retirement-plan participants. Morningstar was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois..
iFulfillment
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iFulfillment is a software company that provides inventory control and supply chain activity services. The company offers QuickConnect, a software product which provides real-time inventory status, order status, order tracking, and return acknowledgement services.
Its products enable B2B and B2C internet companies to deploy fulfillment services as well as manage and monitor supply chain activities in real time. iFulfillment is based in Chicago, Illinois..
Dough
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Dough is the online broker radically challenging the status quo and changing wealth creation. Located in Chicago and backed by tastytrade, Dough is what investing should be: focused on the retail investor, commission-free stock trading, zero account minimums, and iOS and Android apps filled with real-world opportunities for better decision making.
Dough is on a mission to bring understanding to risk, removing it as a barrier and creating a new offering that is equal parts brokerage, education, and everyday insight through its media company. It is fully licensed in 50 states and 3 jurisdictions to provide brokerage services, customers can trade stocks and ETFs listed on a U.S.
exchange.. .
BallotReady
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BallotReady is an online, non-partisan voter guide for local elections. It provides easy-to-digest information about all candidates and referendums on a user’s ballot.
BallotReady was launched in January 2015.. .
CHS Capital LLC
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CHS Capital is a Chicago-based private equity firm that invests in the middle market. The company partners with management teams to add value through human capital initiatives, performance improvement actions, and strategic growth activities.
It is focused on accelerating growth, enhancing capabilities and resources, and positioning companies for attractive exits through a wide range of capital market and economic conditions. Over 25 years, CHS Capital has completed investments in over 395 businesses and has raised a total of $2.9 billion of capital..
Lihtec Funding
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Lihtec is a capital funding platform that sources directly from socially-minded investors utilizing digital marketing and distribution to lower transaction costs. The platform primarily markets interests in Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), but will also offer opportunities to provide grants in lieu of equity and hard debt.
Lihtec was founded by James Grove in March 2014 and is based in Evanston, Illinois. The company was started by executives in the real estate capital markets, technology and affordable housing industries seeking to disrupt the current investment oligarchy in affordable housing by providing transparency and accessibility to what was once reserved to banks and tax credit investment funds..
Social Plus
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Social Plus is the new Shared Economy that brings social causes and projects to life through ethical consumption.
RMB Asset Management
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RMB Asset Management specializes in providing long-term, concentrated, active investing strategies. Its products span the market-cap spectrum and the globe, united by an emphasis on fundamental research and a belief that quality portfolios outperform.
Also, it offers a select lineup of differentiated absolute return offerings.. .
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