West Loop Ventures

West Loop Ventures invests in B2B Fin Tech companies where institutions are customers. The backbone of finance is going to be revolutionized in the next five to ten years. The capital markets revolution happened in Chicago from 1997-2002. It's happening again. In the last revolution, big firms were created and sold to big institutions (OptionsExpress, ThinkorSwim, Archipelago) In the last five years (2010-2015), the Chicago ecosystem has had 23.5B in VC backed exits.