Greg Barnes
Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners
Chicago, United States
Greg Barnes is a seed investor at Hyde Park Venture Partners in Chicago focused on Software and Information Technology. Greg joined Hyde Park Venture Partners in 2014. Prior to HPVP, Greg was the COO of Piece & Co., a social impact startup and graduate of Impact Engine. Before joining Piece & Co., he spent 6 years at Redbox/Coinstar, where he initially led the strategy and analytics team for two years before leading the new venture development andcorporate venture investing functions. Prior to Redbox, Greg held strategy, corporate development, planning, and analytics roles with Culligan International and DiamondCluster. He holds a B.S. in Finance from Miami University.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
Last updated:
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Industries Greg Barnes invests in
Stages Greg Barnes invests in
Countries Greg Barnes invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (21%)
- Information Technology 3 (16%)
- SaaS 2 (11%)
- Analytics 2 (11%)
- E-Commerce 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (58%)
- Series A 4 (21%)
- Funding Round 2 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 9 (47%)
- Canada 4 (21%)
- Estonia 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| RWX is a software company that builds tools for optimizing reliability, building, test performance, and developer experience. | $12M / Series A / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Benji is a modern API for loyalty programs. It helps businesses enhance conversion rates and profitability by providing clients with a new way to pay using rewards points. | $6.3M / Seed / May 19, 2026 | ||
| Benji is a modern API for loyalty programs. It helps businesses enhance conversion rates and profitability by providing clients with a new way to pay using rewards points. | Pre-Seed / Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Zengines is an early-stage AI tech company solving data integration problems using the latest machine learning techniques and algorithms. The company specializes in the fields of information technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2020 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $9M / Seed / Nov 07, 2024 | ||
| Formaloo is a no-code platform that helps businesses create custom data-driven business applications, automate their processes and engage their audience. Formaloo helps thousands of businesses every day to collect, organize and understand their data. Formaloo helps teams collaborate and go from idea to execution in no time.Formaloo providesdrag-and-drop tools that enable businesses to develop software quickly without coding, as easy as creating a form. Formaloo provides users with database infrastructure and drag-and-drop components to quickly assemble and design powerful applications.Formaloo is built for businesses, not developers or data scientists. It's super simple to use and understand, you don't have to code, and best of all, it requires no data experts to operate it.With Formaloo CDP users can use their own data to analyze their customers, and your business and even predict the future. Formaloo adds an AI-powered data expert to SMBs & SMEs so they can really understand their business and their customers and act on it to boost their Loyalty, LTV and CX. | $2.3M / Seed / Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Blackcart develops try-before-you-buy software for e-commerce merchants. Its proprietary try before you buy fraud ai empowers merchants to give their customers the confidence of in-store shopping, at home, and risk-free. | $8.8M / Series A / Jan 25, 2021 | ||
| Provi is the largest online marketplace that simplifies the complex process of ordering wholesale alcohol by connecting buyers, distributors and suppliers. Active in key markets throughout the U.S., Provi's robust, online marketplace improves communication and efficiency for on- and off-premise buyers, distributors and suppliers. As of 2022,10 percent of licensed retailers in the U.S. are on the marketplace. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Provi has received a total of $125 million in funding, is valued at $750 million and has recently been named an Emerging Unicorn by Crunchbase. The company also received Built In Chicago's Best Places to Work recognition in 2022. In 2022, Provi joined forces with SevenFifty. | $3.5M / Seed / May 18, 2018 | ||
| Hubdoc is changing the way accountants and bookkeepers work. Our platform leverages cloud computing and machine learning to automate financial document collection and processing – helping customers save time, scale their practice and build deeper relationships with the small businesses they serve. | $4.3M / Seed / Jun 21, 2017 | ||
| Pear Deck helps schools optimize their 1:1 programs through interactive synchronized learning experiences. Pear Deck is a presentation displayed on a projector and student devices simultaneously. Teachers build interactive slides as a component of their presentation that invite or require responses on individual devices and then displayvisualizations of aggregate data on the teacher’s dashboard or projector in real-time. Teachers can also see the data on their device alone, and save the responses for later study or evaluation.Teachers launch presentations on student screens with a single click, watch student answers come in and engage the entire class in group discussions. Pear Deck blurs the line between instruction and assessment to promote active learning and data-driven instruction. | $4M / Mar 22, 2017 | ||
| Provi is the largest online marketplace that simplifies the complex process of ordering wholesale alcohol by connecting buyers, distributors and suppliers. Active in key markets throughout the U.S., Provi's robust, online marketplace improves communication and efficiency for on- and off-premise buyers, distributors and suppliers. As of 2022,10 percent of licensed retailers in the U.S. are on the marketplace. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Provi has received a total of $125 million in funding, is valued at $750 million and has recently been named an Emerging Unicorn by Crunchbase. The company also received Built In Chicago's Best Places to Work recognition in 2022. In 2022, Provi joined forces with SevenFifty. | $1.4M / Seed / Dec 21, 2016 | ||
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Co-Investors
Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth, mid-continent technology startups. We seek companies with an exceptional founding team and fast-growth potential, looking to raise a first or second round of capital. With offices in Chicago and Indianapolis, our team is tenacious, responsive, and committed toadding value to each investment.
Hyde Park Venture Partners Contacts
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Greg Barnes
Partner
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Ira Weiss
Founder & General Partner
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Alejandra Fernandez
Director of Marketing
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Alisa Vass
Partner & Chief Administrative Officer
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Carlos Covarrubias
Associate
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Greg Barnes invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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