Hopewell Ventures

Hopewell Ventures, L.P. is a Chicago-based venture capital firm established in 2002, specializing in equity investments in high-growth businesses primarily located in the Midwest. The firm focuses on various sectors, including technology, healthcare, life sciences, medical devices, consumer products, and manufacturing, while avoiding investments in concept stage companies, real estate, financial institutions, and project-oriented ventures. Hopewell typically invests between $2 million and $7 million at different stages of company development, excluding turnarounds. With over 80 years of combined experience among its principals, the firm leverages its extensive networks in the Midwest to identify and support growth-oriented ventures. As a licensed small business investment company (SBIC), it maintains offices in Chicago and Peoria, Illinois, and operates as a subsidiary of Woodland Venture Management, which has also launched a regionally targeted fund focused on the Appalachian region.

Matthew McCue

Vice President

David Wilhelm

Founder

8 past transactions

FogHorn

Series C in 2020
FogHorn is a developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization, proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city, smart building and connected vehicle applications.
Emergent Game Technologies, Inc. develops tools and technologies for interactive entertainment. The company focuses on titles, such as sports, racing, action/adventure, RPGs, massively multi-player, puzzle, strategy, first-person shooters, parlor games, and visual simulation and serious games. It offers Gamebryo, a cross-platform middleware solution, which enables game developers to build, test, and manage interactive games; and Gamebryo Casual Game Development Middleware for casual game titles. The company has strategic alliance with Acquire, Gamebase, and Winking; Autodesk, Inc., SOFTIMAGE|XSI, and Gamebryo. Emergent Game Technologies Inc. was formerly known as Butterfly.net, Inc. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Calabasas, California, with additional offices in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; London, the United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; China; and Korea.

VHT

Series C in 2008
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SageQuest

Series D in 2008
SageQuest provides real-time GPS fleet tracking and management solutions that aim to improve the efficiency and productivity of mobile workforces through real-time alerts, reporting, and analytics.

VHT

Series B in 2007
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Pioneer Surgical

Venture Round in 2007
Pioneer Surgical Technology is a medical company that provides surgeons with biologic, metal, and synthetic implants. The company provides surgeons with cardiothoracic metal cable, planting, systems, orthobiologics, sports medicine, and biologic- and synthetic-based implants. Furthermore, the company offers donor services by providing individuals with tissue donating options. Pioneer Surgical Technology was founded in 1992 by Edward Ahn and is based in Michigan.

SageQuest

Series C in 2006
SageQuest provides real-time GPS fleet tracking and management solutions that aim to improve the efficiency and productivity of mobile workforces through real-time alerts, reporting, and analytics.

InStadium

Venture Round in 2005
InStadium offers live sports marketing network, dedicated to connecting brands with fans at live events in more than 425 professional and collegiate stadiums and arenas across the country. Powered by live sports, InStadium delivers unparalleled, multi-channel brand engagement opportunities on behalf of Fortune 500 clients to millions of captive consumers in hundreds of venues at tens of thousands of events each year.
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