Hyde Park Venture Partners
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
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.
- Total investments:
- 201
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
- Fund size:
- $1.9M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Hyde Park Venture Partners invests in
Stages Hyde Park Venture Partners invests in
Countries Hyde Park Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $850k–$4.5M
- Series A
- $2.4M–$12M
- Series B
- $3M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 49 (24%)
- SaaS 26 (13%)
- Information Technology 20 (10%)
- Enterprise Software 19 (9%)
- Analytics 13 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 61 (30%)
- Seed 59 (29%)
- Series B 19 (9%)
- Series C 7 (3%)
- Funding Round 7 (3%)
Country
- United States 102 (51%)
- Canada 9 (4%)
- Estonia 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Greg Barnes
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 19 | Find email | |
Ira Weiss
Founder & General Partner
|
Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 50 | Find email | |
Alejandra Fernandez
Director of Marketing
|
Director of Marketing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Alisa Vass
Partner & Chief Administrative Officer
|
Partner & Chief Administrative Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Carlos Covarrubias
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| definity is a Data Application Observability & Remediation platform, helping Spark-heavy data engineering teams to seamlessly monitor data applications health + data quality + performance in-motion, detect anomalies in run-time, resolve incidents in minutes, optimize applications’ performance, and cut infrastructure cost – with zero codechanges. | $12M / Series A / Apr 29, 2026 | ||
| Certiverse is an end-to-end exam development platform using industry-leading psychometric standards, intuitive machine learning, and an innovative, asynchronous, crowdsourced content-creation model. | $11M / Series A / Mar 25, 2025 | ||
| 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 | ||
| SlipBots auto-load/unload any truck in 5 minutes -- so truckers don't wait, and forklift drivers don't risk it.Truck drivers spend 23% of their workday just idling at a dock and waiting for forklift drivers to load/unload their trailer, while forklift drivers face constant pressure to load/unload freight faster despiteall the risks of damage and injury. Now, those same people can solve this bottleneck with the click of a button: commanding SlipBots to fully auto-load/unload a trailer in under 5 minutes minutes, instead of rushing to drive forklifts in & out of a trailer for 30+ minutes. Slip Robotics empowers people to auto-load & unload any truck in 5 minutes using SlipBot Automated Loading Robots (ALRs) -- at any dock, in any trailer, and with zero Wi-Fi or IT integration required. The SlipBot robots-as-a-service network drives 10x improvements in safety, speed, and savings across the supply chain. | $28M / Series B / Dec 17, 2024 | ||
| 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 | ||
| FinOpsly is on a mission to redefine cloud cost management through the power of artificial intelligence. As your AI Copilot for implementing FinOps, the platform delivers a comprehensive, single-view solution for multi-cloud environments. It delivers complete visibility and transparency into unit cost economics, equips you with intelligentrecommendations and anomaly detection, and offers virtual tagging and governance capabilities, all through a user-friendly interface designed to drive collaboration and accountability across finance, product and engineering teams. FinOpsly isn't just about cost savings – it’s about enhancing the quality and velocity of your cloud investments. | $1.9M / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2024 | ||
| definity is a Data Application Observability & Remediation platform, helping Spark-heavy data engineering teams to seamlessly monitor data applications health + data quality + performance in-motion, detect anomalies in run-time, resolve incidents in minutes, optimize applications’ performance, and cut infrastructure cost – with zero codechanges. | $4.5M / Seed / Aug 14, 2024 | ||
| Aegle Health Partners provides risk management services to revolutionize stop-loss reinsurance for health payers and companies. Aegle Health Partners model provides similar effective tail protection as traditional reinsurance (e.g., stop-loss) but for 25%+ less, without lasers or exclusions, and with full upfront population health credit. | Series A / Apr 01, 2024 | ||
| See all 201 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Hyde Park Venture Partners invest in?
Hyde Park Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 201 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 Hyde Park Venture Partners's check size?
Hyde Park Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $850k–$4.5M at Seed, $2.4M–$12M at Series A and $3M–$50M 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 Hyde Park Venture Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Hyde Park Venture Partners?
The team at Hyde Park Venture Partners includes Greg Barnes (Partner), Ira Weiss (Founder & General Partner) and Alejandra Fernandez (Director of Marketing), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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