Hyde Park Angels


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

Structure and application process

The Hyde Park Angels' approach to investing is "more like a traditional venture capital firm."
The process is:
Peter Wilkins is the managing director since 2014, with Michael Sachaj as the principal.
Board members include:
As of 2016, Hyde Park Angels has investments in: Ahaology, Base, Brilliant, Catalytic, Dabble, The Eastman Egg Company, Farmlogs, Fishidy.com, fourkites, Geofeedia, Glidera, In Context Solutions, intellihot, kenna, luxury garage sale, motion.ai, packback, parkwhiz, 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.
Previous investments include: NuCurrent

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. They also contribute to the local tech community through various other events, including TechWeek.