Private debt and real estate investment manager for niche markets
Chicago Atlantic deploys committed capital across asset-backed lending, real estate, and structured debt—deals ranging $3M to $100M+. The hiring mix is heavily weighted toward finance and leadership roles, with recent focus on data integrity, capital call oversight, and accounting automation; this pattern suggests a firm scaling operational rigor to match deal flow, moving from ad-hoc processes toward institutionalized fund operations.
Chicago Atlantic is a Chicago-based private market investment manager founded in 2017, managing capital across asset-based lending, real estate loans, second-lien debt, lender finance, and project finance. The firm operates with a discretionary capital model, enabling rapid deployment and flexibility for complex or niche opportunities in underserved credit markets. Operations span underwriting, fund accounting, project oversight (ground-up construction and interior buildouts), and investor relations, with active scaling in finance, data, and leadership functions.
Excel, Salesforce, Qlik/Qlik Sense, SQL, Microsoft Office, VBA, JSON, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (recently adopting), and Power Automate.
Institutionalizing fund operations: capital call processes, accounting automation, fund accounting best practices, data integrity improvements, and expansion of underwriting capacity for private credit and equity acquisitions.
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