If reports are to be believed, Google is about to buy Groupon for $6 billion.
When that happens, Chicago-based angel investors Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky will clear close to $3 billion between them.
(Lefkofksky owns about 30% of the company. Keywell, 10%.)
For their next trick, the pair have formed a new angel-investing firm called Lightbank.
With Lightbank, Keywell and Lefkofsky are betting millions of dollars on a series of startups in Chicago, the midwestern home of successful startups FeedBurner, Groupon, Threadless and 37Signals.
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Author: Nicholas Carlson
