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How Branch Messenger Raised $10M to Offer Employee Self-Service for Shift Workers Everywhere

The Hyde Park Angels “New Investment Series” profiles our most recent investments by examining the portfolio company and its future trajectory from two perspectives: the portfolio company’s CEO and the HPA leader who made the deal happen. This edition focuses on Branch Messenger.  Branch Messenger is an employee self-service platform that allows hourly shifts workers […]

August 25, 2017 By Alida Miranda-Wolff
Michael Small, Gogo, podcast

How to Build a Team that Copes with Extraordinary Change from a Telecom Leader

People First is the Hyde Park Angels podcast dedicated to deconstructing entrepreneurial success into actionable takeaways you can use today. Hyde Park Angels is the most active early-stage investor in Chicago with a commitment to taking a “people-first approach” to investing. By matching our members’ expertise with entrepreneurs’ needs, we help develop top-performing companies that […]

August 8, 2017 By Alida Miranda-Wolff
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How RepIQ Uses AI and Data Analytics to Make Sales Easy, Seamless, and Effective

The Hyde Park Angels “New Investment Series” profiles our most recent investments by examining the portfolio company and its future trajectory from two perspectives: the portfolio company’s CEO and the HPA leader who made the deal happen. This edition focuses on RepIQ.  RepIQ is an AI-powered sales intelligence platform that recently raised a Seed Round […]

August 1, 2017 By Alida Miranda-Wolff
volume and velocity of data

The Heart of Every Business: Data Analytics – Past, Present, and Future

John Lewis is an information services and data analytics leader who has served as Global President of Nielsen and CEO of Knowledge Networks. Now, as an Executive Partner at Madison Dearborn Partners, John works on finding the best investments and opportunities in the space, leveraging his experience to understand the current landscape. At Hyde Park […]

July 21, 2017 By Alida Miranda-Wolff
The Time for IOT Is Now

How IOT is Growing and Why We Need to Adapt to Its Changes

People First is the Hyde Park Angels podcast dedicated to deconstructing entrepreneurial success into actionable takeaways you can use today. Hyde Park Angels is the most active early-stage investor in Chicago with a commitment to taking a “people-first approach” to investing. By matching our members’ expertise with entrepreneurs’ needs, we help develop top-performing companies that […]

July 5, 2017 By Alida Miranda-Wolff
Venture Capital Market Analysis

The HPA 2017 Midwest Startup and Venture Capital Market Analysis

The Hyde Park Angels team conducted a deep dive analysis into the Midwest Venture Capital ecosystem by aggregating and analyzing data from Pitchbook, the U.S. Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Illinois Venture Capital Association. We defined the Midwest, also classified as the Great Lakes Region, as Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, and […]

June 22, 2017 By Alida Miranda-Wolff
regroup therapy team

How Regroup Therapy Found and Seized a Huge Telehealth Market Opportunity

The Hyde Park Angels “New Investment Series” profiles our most recent investments by examining the portfolio company and its future trajectory from two perspectives: the portfolio company’s CEO and the HPA leader who made the deal happen. This edition focuses on Regroup Therapy. Regroup Therapy provides virtual staffing of psychiatrists and mental health professionals to health […]

June 19, 2017 By Alida Miranda-Wolff
Onboarding

Blueprint to Your Team’s Onboarding Success

Filling an open position is no easy task. A lot of time will go against hiring the perfect employee. It can be easy to forget that there is still more work to be done after the person accepts a job offer. However, there is a reason this new team member decided your company was the […]

June 9, 2017 By Marketing Hyde Park Angels
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Podcast: What it Takes to Lead Startups & Multimillion-Dollar Companies

People First is the Hyde Park Angels podcast dedicated to deconstructing entrepreneurial success into actionable takeaways you can use today. Hyde Park Angels is the most active early-stage investor in Chicago with a commitment to taking a “people-first approach” to investing. By matching our members’ expertise with entrepreneurs’ needs, we help develop top-performing companies that […]

May 30, 2017 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

The IOT Opportunity: How to Achieve Its Growth Potential

This post was contributed by HPA Member Hardik Bhatt, who has spent the last decade in the Internet of Things (IOT) space, previously heading up Cisco’s global business development for IOT for the public sector and currently serving as the CIO of the State of Illinois. Hardik has worked on both the seller and buyer […]

May 24, 2017 By Marketing Hyde Park Angels