Malaika Mathias

The Chicago Booth Angels Network of Chicago and New York is a nonprofit, affinity organization, founded and run by alumni of The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. We believe early-stage companies need smart angels and high-caliber investors to bring capital, expertise, and global networks. We exist to support innovative ideas, provide quality education and learning opportunities to our University of Chicago alumni membership, and promote the Chicago Booth brand. If you want to become a member and you are a University of Chicago alumnus/na, please visit our website at www.boothangelschicago.com and follow the steps to register as a New Member

Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.

The Chicago Booth Angels Network of Chicago and New York is a nonprofit, affinity organization, founded and run by alumni of The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. We believe early-stage companies need smart angels and high-caliber investors to bring capital, expertise, and global networks. We exist to support innovative ideas, provide quality education and learning opportunities to our University of Chicago alumni membership, and promote the Chicago Booth brand. If you want to become a member and you are a University of Chicago alumnus/na, please visit our website at www.boothangelschicago.com and follow the steps to register as a New Member

Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,200 employees in 30+ countries. As a trusted commercial advisor focused on unlocking better growth, we combine deep consulting expertise, growth specialization, and technology to scale lasting impact. We optimize every lever of commercial strategy – product, pricing, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on what customers want and value. With over 40 years of monetization experience, we are recognized as the world’s leading commercial growth and pricing specialist. (Legal notice: https://www.simon-kucher.com/en/legal-notice) -- Terms of use: Simon-Kuchers official LinkedIn page is run by Simon-Kucher & Partners Strategy & Marketing Consultants (SK). This is a public forum and we welcome your comments, thoughts and insights. However, all posts are regularly monitored and SK will remove, hide and/or delete any that are found to be abusive or deemed inappropriate for this page for whatever reason, including content that is deemed none compliant with LinkedIn’s User Agreement (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement). This includes the banning and reporting of users who are deemed to be non compliant with the above expectations of Simon-Kucher. All comments, visuals, links to other digital pages and other type of material posted by followers on this site ("User Content") do not necessarily reflect the opinions or values of SK, its employees, partners or affiliates. SK does not represent or warrant the accuracy of any statement or product claims made here, is not responsible for any User Content on this site and does not endorse any opinions expressed on this page.