If you are a startup founder or VC in the Chicago ecosystem, or beyond, you'll want to pay attention to these announcements 👇
If you've known me at all for the last year or so you'll know that I've been an active community builder. I honestly never really put my full attention behind it since I was running one of my previous companies. However, I have seen the benefits of community building a lot recently and how important it is. Ergo, I have made it my mission to contribute to the Chicago ecosystem as much as I can for the near future. I am starting a new moderated Slack channel specifically for members of Chicago's startup ecosystem. This will also be one of the new best ways to keep up with my events. 👀
I am also building software to help serve our community here which has launched recently. This software, while currently rather simple, will very quickly become a full fledged platform that I intend to share with the entirety of our ecosystem. The link to the waitlist is in the comments. 🔥
If you want to be involved, join the Slack group with the link in the comments below (and let me know if you're a VC, since I made a private channel just for you guys!) 👇
As a last note, I am also looking to talk to founders that have insane fire inside of them. If you are a founder and you want to take over the world, whether in Chicago or elsewhere, I've provided a Google Form for you to tell me more about yourself in the comments. Antler is funding fiery early stage startup founders with up to $500k in funding. 😊
Kelly LaBuff Prerna Sharma