Hyde Park Angels Overview Video
About Hyde Park Angels:
Entrepreneurs are people who don’t see the status quo as “good enough”. They want to make changes, they want to improve things, they want to innovate, they want to change, they want to disrupt.
Working with them is a benefit to us as much as we are a benefit to them.
“Artists get artists. Coders get coders. We get entrepreneurs. Hyde Park Angels is transforming the way early stage investing is being done, by taking a people first approach. Our members have started, scaled, sold businesses. We’ve invested in hundreds of businesses and we’ve been able to help entrepreneurs take their business to the next level.” – Pete Wilkins, Hyde Park Angels, Managing Director
“I think that this is a community that connects entrepreneurs with other entrepreneurs and we all try and pay it forward – and do a solid, you know? When we see hear about somebody trying to solve a problem or looking for a connection.” – Amanda Lannert, Member, Hyde Park Angels
“Hyde Park Angels has been invaluable to Geofeedia, providing us access to their huge network of individuals throughout the business community in Chicago and throughout the Midwest – allowing us access that we might not normally have been granted.” – Lee Gutham, VP of Strategic Sales, Geofeedia
“Hyde Park Angels has been really pivotal in helping grow our team and identifying who are the people that we really need on board. We’ve had a lot of help from people in the Hyde Park Community. One, supporting us from the standpoint of identifying for us the right people to be in our organization who can really scale us from the level that we are right now, from the level that we were a year ago, to where we are going in the future.”
Katlin Smith, CEO & Founder, Simple Mills
“I started an ecommerce company eleven years ago. My experience is of a very global nature, so when companies come tallk to us about wher ethey’re at today in the US. One of the things I always think about are what are the opportunities to go abroad? What are some of the issues companies might have when trying to scacle internationally. Many of the other memebers are like me – in their own specific verticals, so they can bring expertise to the table that I can’t bring. And that makes it a very powerful organization.”
Craig Vodnick, Board Member at Hyde Park Angels
“An entrepreneur gets more than just money with Hyde Park Angels. We were at a meeting yesterday where one of our members talked about the pricing model on one of the products and the entrepreneur just very candidly said, “Wow, I never thought of it that way.” Those are value points that we bring above and beyond just money. I think when someone is looking to work with Hyde Park Angels they really should be looking to work with all of our members. And if they see a value in working with our members, I think that’s where there’s going to be a real synergy.”
Sapan Shah, Cofounder & Managing Director, Flagship Physicians and Healthcare Group Leader, Hyde Park Angels
Entrepreneurs don’t believe in failure, it’s the failure to try. And working with our members to help entrepreneurs understand their optimal potential and take them there is so fulfilling. We are leveraging our success to create future success which is unbelievably invigorating and a great reason to show up every day.