Hey Friends,

Welcome to the 22nd edition of the Driver’s Seat 🚙 

I spent most of last week in New York exploring synergies between our two great cities.

For a while, I’ve seen an opportunity to create a stronger bridge of knowledge share / investment between Chicago and New York.

My aim is to introduce more NY investors to the potential investment prospects in the Midwest / to highlight to NYC entrepreneurs the advantages of considering Chicago's thriving ecosystem.

We’re already slowly beginning to see this play out.

The fifth company that will be joining the Drive Capital Chicago Pre-Seed Program is a team originally from New York, which will now be making Chicago their new home!

More to come on this soon, but overall the vision to transform Chicago into a tier one hub still remains.

This past Saturday and Sunday, we also hosted a two-day XR Hackathon at our office, where a solid group of builders were tasked with developing mixed reality projects.

Special thanks to GENESIS and Omnia for putting this together at our office!

We NEED more hackathons in Chicago. We’re making it happen TODAY.

📍 Today’s Topics:

🛠 Manufacturing Momentum in Chicago

🤖 Robotic Trends in the Midwest

📊 Chart of the Week

🗺 Events Around the City

🔙 Previous Issues of the Driver’s Seat

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