Alida Miranda-Wolff

Alida Miranda-Wolff heads up communications and strategy at Hyde Park Angels, crafting and disseminating the organization’s brand in all forms across all channels. In addition to single-handedly building HPA’s integrated communications plan and executing its core elements, Alida manages membership, partnerships, portfolio company support, and all community engagement.

Prior to joining Hyde Park Angels, Alida served in a variety of journalism, marketing, communications, and management roles, specializing in creating spreadable multimedia content for tech-enabled businesses at all stages. Alida has run several Kickstarter campaigns, including one of the most successful in Chicago history, and still mentors companies running their own campaigns.

Alida graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago in 2014 with multiple honors and awards. She remains active in the university of alumni network, serving on five advisory boards and committees. Alida is also a published author and poet, with two poetry chapbooks currently in print.

Investor Meeting Toolkit

The Ultimate Investor Meeting Toolkit

This post, the Ultimate Investor Meeting Toolkit, is part of the Entrepreneurial Education Series, which brings together successful, influential entrepreneurs and investors to teach entrepreneurs everything they need to know about early-stage investment through events, articles, videos, and more. If you are interested in learning more about raising a round, save the date for “Early […]

March 13, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Building the Perfect Pitch

This post is part of the Hyde Park Angels Entrepreneurial Education Series, which brings together successful, influential entrepreneurs and investors to teach entrepreneurs everything they need to know about early-stage investment through events, articles, videos, and more. If you are interested in learning more about raising a round, save the date for “Early Stage Investment […]

March 10, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Hyde Park Angels & 1871 Entrepreneurial Education Series

Hyde Park Angels is bringing together successful, influential entrepreneurs and investors to teach you everything you need to know about early-stage investment. Attend all four programs and walk away with a thorough understanding of the early-stage investment cycle from start to finish or pick and choose programs to supplement existing knowledge. In either case, you […]

March 3, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Hyde Park Angels Teams up with 1871 and The Wall Street Journal to Launch Entrepreneurial Education Series

Chicago, IL– February 17–Hyde Park Angels is launching a four-part early-stage investment education series for entrepreneurs of all levels in collaboration with partner 1871 and series sponsor The Wall Street Journal.The Entrepreneurial Education Series will consist of four panels headed up by the best and brightest entrepreneurs and investors in the Midwest, which will be […]

February 18, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Identifying the Right Metrics to Measure Traction

This post is part of the Hyde Park Angels Entrepreneurial Education Series, which brings together successful, influential entrepreneurs and investors to teach entrepreneurs everything they need to know about early-stage investment through events, articles, videos, and more. Like market size, traction is a term that gets thrown around in investment and entrepreneurial circles all the […]

February 10, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

5 Signs You Should Crowdfund

This post is part of the Hyde Park Angels Entrepreneurial Education Series, which brings together successful, influential entrepreneurs and investors to teach entrepreneurs everything they need to know about early-stage investment through events, articles, videos, and more. If you are interested in learning more about whether to raise a fund, register for “Are You Ready […]

February 3, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Public Good Software Raises $1.6M to Revolutionize Online Philanthropy

Chicago, IL — January 27, 2015 — Public Good Software, Inc. is expanding its revolutionary online donations marketplace, PublicGood.com, with $1.6M in seed funding from an A-list of Chicago and Silicon Valley angel investors. Chicago’s Hyde Park Angels; Firestarter Fund; Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress; Chuck Templeton, founder of OpenTable; Mike Sands, former COO/CMO of Orbitz and current CEO […]

January 30, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Is Your Business a Venture?

This post is part of the Hyde Park Angels Entrepreneurial Education Series, which brings together successful, influential entrepreneurs and investors to teach entrepreneurs everything they need to know about early-stage investment through events, articles, videos, and more. Before you begin the long, complicated quest for investment, you need to make sure it’s the right decision […]

January 27, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

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 […]

August 30, 2014 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Hyde Park Angels Event Brings Globally-Known Experts to Chicago

Investors from across the country found standing-room-only availability at a Hyde Park Angels event designed to stimulate investment activity in the Chicago region. The Angel Excelerator conference, presented by the Hyde Park Angels and Excelerate Labs, a Chicago-based bootcamp for startups, attracted more than 120 people to the August 30 event. Open to accredited investors […]

September 1, 2010 By Alida Miranda-Wolff