Hyde Park Angels

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Hyde Park Angels
IndustryVenture capital
Founded2007
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois, United States[1]
Key people
Managing Directors:
Peter Wilkins
Websitehydeparkangels.com

Hyde Park Angels is a venture capital group founded in 2007 and based in Chicago, IL, which focuses on angel investments.[2][3][4]

Structure and application process[]

The Hyde Park Angels' approach to investing is "more like a traditional venture capital firm."[5]

The process is:

  • Companies are vetted and whittled down to about 75
  • Those 75 are brought before a screening committee
  • The screening committee signs off on select few after consulting internal Hyde Park Angels (HPA) subject matter experts
  • Companies deliver pitch to subsection of HPA
  • If selected, get to pitch before HPA
  • Investment status determined with investment coming from group rather than individuals

Leadership[]

Peter Wilkins is the managing director since 2014,[6] with Michael Sachaj as the principal.

Board members include:

  • Doug Monieson
  • Bob Giammanco
  • Chris Jensen
  • Michelle Collins
  • Joe LaManna
  • Chris McGowan
  • Ellen Rudnick
  • Craig Vodnik

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

Investments[]

As of 2016, Hyde Park Angels has investments 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, , simple mills, sonar med, stream link software, transparent career, techstars, turbo appeal, ui co, Xaptum, ycharts.[2]

Previous investments include NuCurrent.[12]

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.

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.[13][14] They also contribute to the local tech community through various other events, including TechWeek.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ "Hyde Park Angels Company Overview". Cue Ball. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  2. ^ a b "Hyde Park Angels | crunchbase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  3. ^ "Hyde Park Angels: Private Company Information - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  4. ^ "You Can't Find Investors Without Doing This". Fortune. 2016-05-20. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  5. ^ "Accredited Angel Group - Hyde Park Angels - Gust". gust.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  6. ^ "Meet Hyde Park Angels' new managing director". Crain's Chicago Business. 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. "FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A To Further Advance Farming Into The Age of Apps". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  9. ^ Loizos, Connie. "FourKites raises $13 million to track trucks on the road for customers like Staples". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  10. ^ Fitchard, Kevin (2014-07-21). "ParkWhiz raises $10M as more VC cash flows to parking spot-booking startups". gigaom.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  11. ^ Wasserman, Todd. "Reddit Founder Backs Parking Reservation System ParkWhiz". Mashable. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  12. ^ "Funding Daily: Today's tech funding stories, from augmented reality to health-tech". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  13. ^ Angels, Hyde Park (2016-01-05). "2016 Hyde Park Angels & 1871 Entrepreneurial Education Series – Hyde Park Angels". Medium. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  14. ^ "How to Raise Venture Capital". www.f6s.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  15. ^ McCarthy, Cathal (2016-05-16). "Announcing Techweek100 Chicago 2016". Techweek. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
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