# HPA (Hyde Park Angels)

> HPA (Hyde Park Angels) is a VC fund in Chicago backing Software and SaaS. See 157 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 157
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last fund: Jul 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/hyde-park-angels
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/hydeparkangels
- Website: http://www.hydeparkangels.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hydeparkangels

HPA (Hyde Park Angels) is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and SaaS. HPA operates in the financial services sector, focusing on early-stage investments. The company's People First model combines venture capital, a robust business network, and top-tier operating expertise to support the growth of its portfolio companies. HPA's services extend to all stages of a company's lifecycle, from seed to growthstages, providing financial and strategic support to help businesses thrive.It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5M |
| Series A | $1.5M–$15M |
| Series B | $2.5M–$43M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 29 | 18% |
| SaaS | 14 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 9% |
| E-Commerce | 12 | 8% |
| Health Care | 10 | 6% |

169 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 47 | 30% |
| Seed | 43 | 27% |
| Series B | 19 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 6% |
| Series C | 8 | 5% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 88 | 56% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Brown | Member | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-brown-3 |
| Douglas Monieson | Member | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-monieson |
| Kenneth Greisman | Member | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenneth-greisman |
| Kristopher Kubicki | Member | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kristopher-kubicki |
| Michael Sachaj | Senior Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-sachaj |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Empirical Security | Empirical builds mathematical models for security data. | $25M | Series A | Jul 20, 2026 |  |
| Karoo Health | Karoo Health is a leader in tech-enabled value-based cardiovascular care solutions and aims to bring innovative, end-to-end, cardiovascular solutions to patients via partnerships with health plans and self-insured employers. As a patient-first organization, Karoo Health’s mission is to help patients lead their best lives by providing a new paradigmof better cardiology care, at lower cost, than the current system and preventing the progression of cardiovascular disease. | $16.2M | Series A | Jul 20, 2026 |  |
| Shelfmark | Shelfmark is an intelligence platform that brings the innovation to DSD to provide inventory insights for suppliers, and eCommerce partner. | $4.9M | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Handspring Health | Handspring is redesigning the family mental healthcare experience from the ground up. Our omnichannel care delivery model tightly integrates different modalities of care, including in-person, digital and devices. Through the use of technology, health plan partnerships, and highly trained clinicians. Handspring Health aims to make quality mentalhealthcare more accessible to all families. | $19M | Series B | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Digit | We build software that helps you simplify organizations and improves operational results through simple (yet powerful) ERP software tailored to each business. Digit software is implemented in weeks, not months or years.We are an experienced group of business owners, former CEO's, managers, and consultants who have spent nearly a decadestarting, managing, and leading small, mid-market and large organizations in multiple industries. We have been in your shoes and know first-hand what its like to be stuck with systems that just don't cut it.Our product philosophy focus on two elements that make great software: Form + Function This focus allows us to design simple (yet powerful) software that users love, delivers actual business results, and fits specifically to your organization. | $3M | Seed | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Cydelphi | Cydelphi provides an AI-native Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) platform designed to improve cyber resilience and accelerate recovery from security breaches. The platform uses AI-driven workflows, automated forensic playbooks, and recovery automation to reduce incident response and recovery times. It helps enterprises, MSSPs, andsecurity teams investigate, contain, and recover from ransomware and other cyber incidents at machine speed. | $3M | Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Iris Finance | Iris Finance provides operators and investors with the necessary information about a company's financial performance in real-time, enabling them to make informed future plans. | $6.2M | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Handspring Health | Handspring is redesigning the family mental healthcare experience from the ground up. Our omnichannel care delivery model tightly integrates different modalities of care, including in-person, digital and devices. Through the use of technology, health plan partnerships, and highly trained clinicians. Handspring Health aims to make quality mentalhealthcare more accessible to all families. | $12M | Series A | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| MOONNOX | MOONNOX, Inc. is a Technology company that resolves and simplifies the process of inquiries from your customers, partners, or employees.Moonnox automates the consultative process to understand your audience's needs and provides tailored recommendations trained on content. Their goal is to make business offerings and processes moreefficient to comprehend by providing recommendations to questions that only happen through active listening. Their platform provides a seamless experience for your business to have a trained digital concierge, that's then ready to provide a seamless experience for the audience to have active engagement with content.Founded by Robert Ong and David Cotten in 2022. | $2M | Seed | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Intelligems | IntelliGems is Online stores are leaving money on the table by pricing inefficiently. We run A/B tests to find the optimal price to maximize sales and margin. | $9M | Series A | Mar 13, 2025 |  |

10 of 157 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hyde Park Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 45 deals together
- [Pritzker Group Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pritzker-group-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [M25](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/M25-VC) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Chicago Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chicago-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [OCA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oca-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Harvard Business School Angels Chicago](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harvard-business-school-angels-chicago) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does HPA (Hyde Park Angels) invest in?

HPA (Hyde Park Angels) invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 157 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is HPA (Hyde Park Angels)'s check size?

HPA (Hyde Park Angels) typically joins rounds of $1M–$5M at Seed, $1.5M–$15M at Series A and $2.5M–$43M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds HPA (Hyde Park Angels) participates in.

### How do I contact HPA (Hyde Park Angels)?

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### Who are the partners at HPA (Hyde Park Angels)?

The team at HPA (Hyde Park Angels) includes Alex Brown (Member), Douglas Monieson (Member) and Kenneth Greisman (Member), among 21 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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