Hyde Park Angels

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Hyde Park Angels
Industry Venture capital
Founded2007
Headquarters Chicago, Illinois, United States [1]
Key people
Managing Directors:
Peter Wilkins
Website hydeparkangels.com

Hyde Park Angels is a venture capital group founded in 2007 and based in Chicago, IL, which focuses on angel investments. [2] [3]

Contents

Structure and application process

The Hyde Park Angels' approach to investing is "more like a traditional venture capital firm." [4]

The process is:

Leadership

Peter Wilkins is the managing director since 2014, [5] with Michael Sachaj as the principal.

Board members include:

Hyde Park Angels was founded in April 2007 by classmates of Chicago Booth XP-76. They were Jeffrey Carter, Ryan Humphreys, Vishal Verma, Rick Schultz, Sharon McDade and Galen Williams.[ citation needed ]

Investments

As of 2016, Hyde Park Angels has investments in: Ahaology, Base, Brilliant, Catalytic, Dabble, The Eastman Egg Company, [6] Farmlogs, [7] Fishidy.com, fourkites, [8] Geofeedia, Glidera, In Context Solutions, intellihot, kenna, luxury garage sale, motion.ai, packback, parkwhiz, [9] [10] Persio, Prism Analytical Technologies, Quikly, regroup therapy, RepIQ, Retrofit, Rheaply, Rithmio, sentic technologies, ShipBob, simple mills, sonar med, stream link software, transparent career, techstars, turbo appeal, ui co, Xaptum, ycharts.[ citation needed ]

Previous investments include NuCurrent. [11]

Acquisitions

Several of Hyde Park Angels' portfolio companies have subsequently been acquired: Fee Fighters, Food Genius, Grade Beam, Moxie Jean, Power 2 Switch, Simple Relevance, Supply Vision, Tap Me, Retal Technologies, Tempo IQ.[ citation needed ]

Partnerships

Hyde Park Angels works with the Chicago startup incubator 1871 to host events and educational series to help the entrepreneurial community in Chicago and the MidWest. [12] [13] They also contribute to the local tech community through various other events, including TechWeek. [14]

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