# Hyde Park Venture Partners

> Hyde Park Venture Partners is a VC fund in Chicago backing Software and SaaS. See 193 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 193
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last fund: Jan 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/hyde-park-venture-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/hydeparkvp
- Website: http://www.hydeparkvp.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hydeparkvp

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.4M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$11M |
| Series B | $7.5M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 48 | 25% |
| SaaS | 25 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 19 | 10% |
| Enterprise Software | 18 | 9% |
| Analytics | 14 | 7% |

187 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 61 | 32% |
| Seed | 58 | 30% |
| Series B | 19 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 11 | 6% |
| Series C | 7 | 4% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 100 | 52% |
| Canada | 9 | 5% |
| Estonia | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greg Barnes | Partner | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-barnes |
| Ira Weiss | Founder & General Partner | 48 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ira-s-weiss |
| Alejandra Fernandez | Director of Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alejandra-fernandez |
| Alisa Vass | Partner & Chief Administrative Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alisa-vass |
| Carlos Covarrubias | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carlos-covarrubias-d229 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RWX | RWX is a software company that builds tools for optimizing reliability, building, test performance, and developer experience. | $12M | Series A | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Benji | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Benji | 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 |  |
| Benji | 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 |  |
| Slip Robotics | 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 | Zengines is an early-stage AI tech company solving data integration problems using the latest machine learning techniques and algorithms. | $9M | Seed | Nov 07, 2024 |  |

10 of 193 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [HPA (Hyde Park Angels)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-angels) — VC Fund, 45 deals together
- [High Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-alpha-llc) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [M25](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/M25-VC) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Chicago Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chicago-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Origin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/origin-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Drive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drive-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

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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 193 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 $1M–$4.4M at Seed, $2.5M–$11M at Series A and $7.5M–$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.

### How do I contact Hyde Park Venture Partners?

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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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