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
Hyde Park Angels (HPA), a Chicago-based angel network, led a second round of funding for UICO, Inc., headquartered in Glendale Heights, IL. UICO designs and manufactures innovative user-interface (UI) and Human Machine Interface (HMI) solutions, such as capacitive touchpads and touchscreens, for the durable goods markets. UICO’s customized OpacoTouch™ and ClaroTouch™ user interface product solutions […]
June 1, 2009
By Alida Miranda-Wolff
Hyde Park Angels (HPA), a Chicago-based angel investment network, today named Sam Guren as its Managing Director to continue to advance the angel network’s efforts in support of early stage investing and start-up companies in the Midwest. Sam Guren is a venture capital and private equity veteran with over thirty years of investment experience. Former […]
October 13, 2008
By Alida Miranda-Wolff
Hyde Park Angels, a Chicago-based angel investor network, has completed a round of financing for GradeBeam, LLC, headquartered in Chicago. GradeBeam.com is an exclusive communication network designed by and for construction professionals. As a fully-managed online contractor database, electronic file sharing and bid invitation service, GradeBeam is designed to facilitate pre-construction communication, secure information sharing […]
September 24, 2008
By Alida Miranda-Wolff
Hyde Park Angels (HPA), a Chicago-based angel network, has completed a round of financing for UICO, LLC, headquartered in Glendale Heights, IL. UICO develops and manufactures innovative user-interface (UI) solutions, such as touchscreens, for the appliance, industrial and medical markets. As an integrator of emerging and innovative user interfaces, UICO leverages appropriate technologies to deliver […]
April 23, 2008
By Alida Miranda-Wolff