Lofty Angels Summit

Name: Lofty Angels Summit
Start: 2025-08-11T10:30:00.000-05:00
End: 2025-08-11T19:30:00.000-05:00
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Lofty Ventures

Chicago, Illinois

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About Event

Angel Curious?

Are you angel curious and interested in learning more about early-stage investing? Are you a seasoned angel and interested in meeting more of your fellow investors? If so, please join us for the inaugural Lofty Angels Summit, hosted at Bank of America’s beautiful downtown Chicago office on Monday, August 11th, 2025 for a full day of informative sessions, actionable insights, and plenty of opportunities to build relationships with fellow investors.

Brilliant People, Invaluable Knowledge & Memorable Experiences

The summit will feature 18 speakers including authors, angel investors, business school professors, VCs, founders, and corporate supporters, who have collectively backed, advised and/or built hundreds of early-stage startups. We will provide a light breakfast at check-in, boxed lunches, and snacks throughout the day. We will also be screening the premiere of a short film Lofty Ventures co-produced with Misfits Labs, Lofty City: The Rise of Chicago’s Tech Community, which includes interviews with local tech leaders, such as Mike Evans, Founder of Grubhub. We will cap off the day with an afterparty in the building’s epic indoor/outdoor space overlooking the Chicago River, with gorgeous views of the Loop’s skyline. We will welcome electronic musician and recording artist, Com Truise to perform a private DJ set while we mingle with over a hundred members of the Chicago startup community.

ATTENTION FOUNDERS: Apply For 70% Off Discount

We are excited to welcome startup founders who would like to attend the summit, provided your startup is in the post-Seed stage and your intent is to learn about angel investing, not to solicit attendees for angel investments. If this sounds like you, then apply here to receive a 70% off discount. A central goal of Lofty Angels is to enable more founders to learn angel investing earlier in their careers, and this summit is specifically designed with founders in mind. We will be hosting a panel with all founders-turned-angels to share why they decided to begin angel investing and how it has benefited them thus far in their entrepreneurial journeys.

About the Organizer: Lofty Ventures

Angel investor Christopher Deutsch built Lofty Ventures to holistically support the 180+ founders at 100 startups he has personally backed, 80% of which are in Chicago and 75% are led by underrepresented founders. Over the past decade, it has evolved into the Lofty Family, which is a growing community of Chicago’s most passionate founders building our city’s next generation of disruptive startups, a supportive partner ecosystem, XiRs who provide mentorship and guidance, and angel investors who financially back them. Lofty's giver-centric community is bound by the common thread of amazing people with the vision and purpose to drive entrepreneurship and economic development in Chicago and beyond. Lofty Angels, a signature program for Lofty Ventures, is focused on open-sourcing early-stage investing knowledge to help support the collective of angel investors locally and globally.