HPA is pleased to announce its participation in the $3 million seed funding round for Cydelphi, the pioneering AI-native Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) platform company. The round was led by Glasswing Ventures, with additional participation from Blu Ventures and Merlin Ventures. Cydelphi is addressing a critical and rapidly expanding pain point in enterprise […]
HPA is excited to celebrate a major milestone for our portfolio company Better Trucks, which has received a strategic investment from Uber Freight alongside an expanded commercial partnership. This collaboration strengthens Uber Freight’s end-to-end logistics capabilities while accelerating Better Trucks’ growth as a next-generation last-mile carrier. Traditional parcel networks continue to face mounting pressure as […]
HPA is excited to announce its participation in Iris Finance $6.2 million Seed round co-led by Glasswing Ventures and Founder Collective, with participation from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Barrel Ventures, Rosecliff, and others. Physical product businesses face mounting financial pressure, with cash flow mismanagement contributing to most small business failures and many […]
HPA is excited to announce its investment in Empirical Security’s $12 million Seed Round alongside Costanoa. The round also saw participation from DNX Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, and strategic investors Jonathan Cran, founder of Intrigue (acquired by Google/Mandiant), Wade Baker, creator of the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report and founder of The Cyentia Institute, and […]
HPA is excited to announce its participation in Handspring’s $12 million Series A led by Cobalt Ventures with support from NextView Ventures, NVP Capital, 25Madison, Arkitekt Ventures, Cornucopian Capital, two regional health plans, and others. This investment joins other HPA portfolio companies NOCD and Array Behavioral Health that are focused on increasing access to high quality behavioral […]
We are excited to share that HPA portfolio company AmpliFund, a leading grant management platform provider, was successfully acquired by Euna Solutions, a provider of best-in-class SaaS solutions purpose-built for the public sector. AmpliFund’s purpose-built grant management platform is designed for state, local, and tribal governments to manage every phase of the grant management process. […]
Finding tech talent to fuel the growth that investors expect right now is a challenge. With distributed workforces, the Great Resignation, and layoffs in certain industries, the employee market continues to adapt. The Discovery Partners Institute is working to provide a solution. With a vision to be a magnet for the most ambitious talent Illinois […]
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In the future, when we analyze moments in time when true innovation transformed an industry, we’ll remember an event that happened just a couple of weeks ago: Livongo’sIPO. By the end of its trading debut — which left the company valued at $3.4 billion — Livongo proved two things: that it’s possible to empower people to live healthier […]
This is the final article in a three-part series on the benefits of giving all startup employees equity. See the first piece here and the second one here. A year after I moved to Chicago, I attended a women’s networking event, where an employee of a recently-acquired startup entered the room. Folks were excited to see her, congratulating […]
