Hyde Park Angels

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Hyde Park Angels
Industry Venture capital
Founded2007;17 years ago (2007)
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois,
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United States [1]
Key people
Peter Wilkins (Managing Director)
Website hydeparkangels.com

Hyde Park Angels (HPA) is an American venture capital firm founded in 2007 and based in Chicago, IL. The company focuseses on angel investments in startup companies in Chicago and the American Midwest. [2] [3]

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The Hyde Park Angels' approach to investing is like a traditional venture capital firm. [4] In each round a number of companies are vetted and screened by internal Hyde Park Angels subject-matter experts. The selected companies pitch to the HPA with any investment coming from group rather than individuals.

History

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 ]

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

Investments

In 2014, Hyde Park Anghels invested in NuCurrent. [6]

As of 2016, Hyde Park Angels has invested in: Ahaology, Base, Brilliant, Catalytic, Dabble, The Eastman Egg Company, [7] Farmlogs, [8] Fishidy.com, fourkites, [9] Geofeedia, Glidera, In Context Solutions, intellihot, kenna, luxury garage sale, motion.ai, packback, parkwhiz, [10] [11] 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 ]

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 ]

Board

Board members include:

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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  4. ↑ "Accredited Angel Group - Hyde Park Angels - Gust". gust.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  5. ↑ "Meet Hyde Park Angels' new managing director". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  6. ↑ "Funding Daily: Today's tech funding stories, from augmented reality to health-tech". VentureBeat. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  7. ↑ "Hyde Park Angels serves up $1.5 million to Eastman Egg Company". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  8. ↑ Burns, Matt (15 January 2014). "FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A To Further Advance Farming Into The Age of Apps". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
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