My thanks to the 140 people signed up for the midVentures community. Over the past 4 months of existence our fledgling venture development firm went from a concept to a loft with 4 employees, 8+ active projects, potential investment offers, and opportunities in every corner of the midwest.  

Most of that is owing to the friends, clients, advisers, and partners from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the Chicago Business Community, our Cleveland friends Goldstein Caldwell, and Justin Savage’s patience in extending the checksense office space for midVentures purposes. And Zac Witte’s interior design skills.

I would like to welcome a few more people to the core midventures team (in that I probably talk to them daily for whatever reason).

Alex Wilhelm: Head of Business Development, Twitter Feed Management, and TechCrunch memorizer; Uchicago Econ Man. 
Kinjal Mehta: Chicago Art Director- recently finishing as a designer on the Obama Campaign; and a SAIC grad.

Mike McNally: Our full-time PHP guy; who refuses to submit unfinished code to his clients.

Cristina Romagnoli: Illustrator and Design Brainstormer; UChicago / Full Sail / SACI Visual Arts Student, gym teacher.

Imran Mohiuddin: UChicago GSB grad and investment banker; working with midVen to build an Incubator fund for midwest startups.

Leon Zhao: L33t H4×0r, CTO of Vibes Media and Lead Developer at Morningstar.

Jeff Osmond, Evan Scott, Jon Soeder, Ian Kinsey, Elbert Clayton, and the Magician are often stopping by.

I would also like to announce that midVentures will begin, starting tonight, development of its own in-house web app. If you want to learn more, ask me for an NDA and I’ll have a courier with a handcuffed briefcase escort our idea. We take our ideas seriously here.