Harvard Business School Angels Chicago

The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels and Entrepreneurship Council of Chicago provides a forum for our entrepreneurially inclined alumni members to invest in and directly support the growth of early stage ventures, primarily located in the Chicago area and surrounding region. Recognized as one of Chicago's most active early stage investors, the organization consists of current and former executives, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists with a serious commitment to investing their capital, expertise, and time into high potential entrepreneurial ventures in order to enable their success. The program serves as a complement to our Distinguished Speaker Series in Entrepreneurship and our Alumni New Venture Competition. Together these programs enable our alumni to continuously make a very real impact on our entrepreneurial ecosystem.

38 past transactions

Colorcast

Seed Round in 2022
Colorcast is a mobile app that brings live audio commentary to the masses. It is a developer of an audio-first platform designed to enhance live shared visual events with a diversity of choice in the audio commentary. Its platform connects streaming commentators to audiences of sports fanatics and event consumers that enable users to add a take on the latest sports game, controversial political episode, live awards show, or any engaging event. Colorcast was established in 2019 and operates in Austin, Texas.

Ping Corporation

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ping is a B2B, SaaS-based company that utilizes wearables and AI to improve caregiving for older adults. We focus on the safety, wellness, and social connection of our elders. By using wearables data collected from our elderly users, our Machine Learning algorithms capture and present critical and actionable data to their families and caregivers.

Gearflow

Seed Round in 2021
We are on a mission to simplify the parts ordering process for heavy equipment fleets by providing better parts supplier access, communication, and reporting, in one easy-to-use platform.

Shakers

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We've reimagined the way HR leaders create teams in a much more dynamic way. Our (AI powered) smart team builder identifies & match with the best verified talents to carry out the challenge taking into account experience, skills, motivations and personality. Hr managers can create entire teams from scratch or add verified members to their existing teams.

SWARM Engineering

Seed Round in 2021
SWARM is a Software-as-a-Service platform that uses a next-generation cognitive computing system designed to tackle issues in the food supply chain and logistics such as load planning, inbound logistics, product blending, and pricing.

NovaScan

Convertible Note in 2021
Founded by the former Dean of the Engineering school of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, NovaScan has developed and is committed to commercializing its breakthrough technology for cancer detection – solutions that require no capital equipment, are not constrained by size, provide instantaneous results, and unmatched accuracy.

Tire Agent

Seed Round in 2020
Tire Agent is an online tire retailer that provides at-home/on-site installation. It offers consumers a premium service at a value price. Tire Agent provides consumers with personalized tire recommendations, live tire experts, warranty claims, and great prices.
Surgical Innovation Associates, Inc. (“SIA”, sia.health) is a commercial stage medical device company, committed to raising the standard of care in plastic, reconstructive, and general surgery and lowering systemic costs through “for surgeon, by surgeon” implantable device innovation. Headquartered in downtown Chicago, Illinois, SIA’s proximity to academia and world-leading healthcare institutions has created the ideal ecosystem for the translation of concepts into devices to meet key clinical needs. The company’s flagship product family, DuraSorb® Monofilament Mesh is on the market and indicated for use in reinforcement of soft tissues where weakness exists. DuraSorb® was specifically designed for plastic, reconstructive, and general surgery and is US FDA 510(k) cleared and CE marked. The product is available in multiple sizes, and is part of a growing pipeline of novel medical devices made from commonly-used resorbable polymers.

Tivic Health

Seed Round in 2019
Tivic Health is a bioelectronic therapeutics company. The company translates neuroscience into consumer-friendly medical devices, expanding the role of bioelectronic therapies in the healthcare ecosystem. Their first innovation, ClearUP™ Sinus Pain Relief, delivers temporary relief of sinus pain. It’s a small handheld device that’s easy to use, reusable, and clinically proven. The company received FDA Clearance on January 2, 2019, and will be shipping the product in September 2019.

FourKites

Series C in 2019
As the leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation, FourKites pioneered the Intelligent Control Tower™ powered by the world’s largest real-time visibility network. Our platform creates comprehensive digital twins of your supply chain with AI-powered digital workers to automate resolution, improve collaboration and drive outcomes across all stakeholders. Unlike traditional control towers, we enable true real-time execution and intelligent fulfillment, transforming both your supply and customer-facing operations.

Jiobit

Venture Round in 2018
Jiobit is the world's smallest and longest lasting tracking solution. With a Jiobit device and smartphone app, parents (and pet parents) can find their loved ones anywhere: Indoors, outdoors, in over 120 countries and even in multi-level buildings. With weeks of battery life and a durable and discreet design, Jiobit is the world's smallest real-time location tracking product. The mobile app (run through a wireless subscription service) offers the most comprehensive set of monitoring and notification features available on the market. Overall, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids. The Jiobit team is comprised of seasoned engineers, designers, and marketers with a history of building innovative and disruptive consumer products and businesses. The team has logged a combined 150 patents from previous endeavors and developed and shipped products selling in the millions worldwide. We are proudly headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley.

Azumo

Series B in 2018
Azumo front light is here to light the way to the new era of high efficiency, durable displays that don’t fight the environment but work in tandem with it. The time has come for all of us to reflect on what displays can do for devices.

Regroup

Series B in 2018
Regroup provides integrated telepsychiatry services designed to offer psychiatric care remotely through live and interactive video conferencing. They improve access to mental health care, enabling patients to overcome geographical distances, restrictions on mobility, transportation difficulties, and time and cost burdens.

SWARM Engineering

Seed Round in 2018
SWARM is a Software-as-a-Service platform that uses a next-generation cognitive computing system designed to tackle issues in the food supply chain and logistics such as load planning, inbound logistics, product blending, and pricing.

CFX Markets

Series A in 2017
CFX Markets is the first centralized and digitized secondary market for alternative assets; a central trading platform where investors can buy and sell shares of illiquid assets in an efficient and seamless way. We provide an open and secure network to facilitate secondary market transactions of private securities in alternative assets, bringing liquidity to the investors who invest nationwide in these private securities as well as those investors that are taking part in the exploding crowdfunding industry. In short, we make it easier and more efficient to invest.

Jiobit

Seed Round in 2017
Jiobit is the world's smallest and longest lasting tracking solution. With a Jiobit device and smartphone app, parents (and pet parents) can find their loved ones anywhere: Indoors, outdoors, in over 120 countries and even in multi-level buildings. With weeks of battery life and a durable and discreet design, Jiobit is the world's smallest real-time location tracking product. The mobile app (run through a wireless subscription service) offers the most comprehensive set of monitoring and notification features available on the market. Overall, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids. The Jiobit team is comprised of seasoned engineers, designers, and marketers with a history of building innovative and disruptive consumer products and businesses. The team has logged a combined 150 patents from previous endeavors and developed and shipped products selling in the millions worldwide. We are proudly headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley.

NuCurrent

Venture Round in 2017
NuCurrent is a developer of high-efficiency antennas for wireless power applications. Compliant across Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), Wireless Power Consortium (Qi) and Power Matters Alliance (PMA) standards, NuCurrent works closely with electronic device OEMs and integrators to custom-design, rapid-prototype and integrate the optimal antenna for a broad range of applications. NuCurrent’s patented designs, structures, and manufacturing techniques mitigate typical high-frequency effects, offering higher efficiency, smaller sizes, higher durability, and lower cost with wireless power application development. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

ExplORer Surgical

Series A in 2017
ExplORer Surgical is an interactive surgical playbook that reduces disruptions and wasted disposables by improving surgical team communication. ExplORer Surgical also provides real-time performance and scheduling data to OR administrators to enhance the quality of care and efficiency. Surgical teams use the software to coordinate their activities while managing their tools and supplies in a way never before possible. The result is optimal teamwork, increased efficiency, and high performance. ExplORer Surgical keeps high functioning teams in sync so that physicians can focus on what they do best performing successful procedures that help patients live their best lives. The Explorer provides workflow management through tailored checklists which reduce errors, track efficiency, and eliminate confusion among team members in the OR and procedural suites. It helps medical device companies ease rollout of new devices, saving time and money while improving medical education.

Regroup

Series A in 2017
Regroup provides integrated telepsychiatry services designed to offer psychiatric care remotely through live and interactive video conferencing. They improve access to mental health care, enabling patients to overcome geographical distances, restrictions on mobility, transportation difficulties, and time and cost burdens.

MortgageHippo

Seed Round in 2017
Based in Chicago, MortgageHippo is a financial technology company offering a comprehensive suite of web and mobile-ready products white-labeled for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders. MortgageHippo is focused on delivering an intuitive, smooth and efficient Borrower and Lender Experience.

Jiobit

Seed Round in 2017
Jiobit is the world's smallest and longest lasting tracking solution. With a Jiobit device and smartphone app, parents (and pet parents) can find their loved ones anywhere: Indoors, outdoors, in over 120 countries and even in multi-level buildings. With weeks of battery life and a durable and discreet design, Jiobit is the world's smallest real-time location tracking product. The mobile app (run through a wireless subscription service) offers the most comprehensive set of monitoring and notification features available on the market. Overall, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids. The Jiobit team is comprised of seasoned engineers, designers, and marketers with a history of building innovative and disruptive consumer products and businesses. The team has logged a combined 150 patents from previous endeavors and developed and shipped products selling in the millions worldwide. We are proudly headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley.

Occasion

Venture Round in 2016
Occasion is an online tool that assists firms in connecting with their customers. The platform offers analytics, calendars, integration, management, payment, promotion, publishing, and support services to its clients. Analytics consists of dashboard, google analytics, and sales, trend, export, and tax reports. Calendars consist of calendar synchronization, display, and personalization. Integration consists of email marketing, accounting, and automation. Management consists of customer profiles, accounts, and online and retail synchronization. Payment consists of taxes, payment gateways, store credit, and automatic taxes. Promotion consists of gift cards, vouchers, discounts, and promotional dashboards. Publishing consists of website sales, personalized URLs, Facebook, and twitter. Occasion was launched in 2013 by Pelle ten Cate, Aksh Gupta, Eric Di Silvestro, and Kieran Klaassen and is based in Chicago.

FourKites

Series A in 2016
As the leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation, FourKites pioneered the Intelligent Control Tower™ powered by the world’s largest real-time visibility network. Our platform creates comprehensive digital twins of your supply chain with AI-powered digital workers to automate resolution, improve collaboration and drive outcomes across all stakeholders. Unlike traditional control towers, we enable true real-time execution and intelligent fulfillment, transforming both your supply and customer-facing operations.

IntelinAir

Debt Financing in 2016
IntelinAir is an aerial imagery analytics company focused on agriculture that delivers actionable intelligence to help farmers make data-driven decisions to improve operational efficiency, yields, and ultimately their profitability.

Jiobit

Convertible Note in 2016
Jiobit is the world's smallest and longest lasting tracking solution. With a Jiobit device and smartphone app, parents (and pet parents) can find their loved ones anywhere: Indoors, outdoors, in over 120 countries and even in multi-level buildings. With weeks of battery life and a durable and discreet design, Jiobit is the world's smallest real-time location tracking product. The mobile app (run through a wireless subscription service) offers the most comprehensive set of monitoring and notification features available on the market. Overall, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids. The Jiobit team is comprised of seasoned engineers, designers, and marketers with a history of building innovative and disruptive consumer products and businesses. The team has logged a combined 150 patents from previous endeavors and developed and shipped products selling in the millions worldwide. We are proudly headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley.

Regroup

Seed Round in 2016
Regroup provides integrated telepsychiatry services designed to offer psychiatric care remotely through live and interactive video conferencing. They improve access to mental health care, enabling patients to overcome geographical distances, restrictions on mobility, transportation difficulties, and time and cost burdens.

Classroom IQ

Seed Round in 2016
ClassroomIQ is a fast, online grading tool for teachers. Grade hundreds of questions in minutes. Use your existing assignment formats. Instant analysis for immediate feedback. Works on any web connected device.

CFX Markets

Convertible Note in 2016
CFX Markets is the first centralized and digitized secondary market for alternative assets; a central trading platform where investors can buy and sell shares of illiquid assets in an efficient and seamless way. We provide an open and secure network to facilitate secondary market transactions of private securities in alternative assets, bringing liquidity to the investors who invest nationwide in these private securities as well as those investors that are taking part in the exploding crowdfunding industry. In short, we make it easier and more efficient to invest.

Enflux

Seed Round in 2016
Enflux makes motion capture clothing for the masses. We are a technology platform serving Virtual Reality, Fitness, and Health through our open API. Our customers include Hasbro, The Jim Henson Company, and many more.

Gila Therapeutics

Series A in 2016
Gila Therapeutics is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing a therapy for obesity. Using novel routes of administration, the company develops and commercializes medicines for metabolic diseases and targets a pathway to treat obesity by increasing fullness, decreasing caloric intake, and producing weight loss.

FourKites

Seed Round in 2016
As the leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation, FourKites pioneered the Intelligent Control Tower™ powered by the world’s largest real-time visibility network. Our platform creates comprehensive digital twins of your supply chain with AI-powered digital workers to automate resolution, improve collaboration and drive outcomes across all stakeholders. Unlike traditional control towers, we enable true real-time execution and intelligent fulfillment, transforming both your supply and customer-facing operations.

Regroup

Seed Round in 2015
Regroup provides integrated telepsychiatry services designed to offer psychiatric care remotely through live and interactive video conferencing. They improve access to mental health care, enabling patients to overcome geographical distances, restrictions on mobility, transportation difficulties, and time and cost burdens.

StreetShares

Seed Round in 2015
StreetShares, Inc. is a peer-to-peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. Based in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a lending-as-a-service platform that enables community banks and credit unions to efficiently provide loans to small businesses. Its product offerings include term loans, business bonds, and both secured and unsecured small business loans. StreetShares facilitates an accessible and streamlined lending experience, allowing financial institutions to connect with borrowers through a digital platform featuring quick underwriting processes. Founded in 2013, the company has garnered recognition for its innovative solutions in small business financing.

FourKites

Seed Round in 2015
As the leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation, FourKites pioneered the Intelligent Control Tower™ powered by the world’s largest real-time visibility network. Our platform creates comprehensive digital twins of your supply chain with AI-powered digital workers to automate resolution, improve collaboration and drive outcomes across all stakeholders. Unlike traditional control towers, we enable true real-time execution and intelligent fulfillment, transforming both your supply and customer-facing operations.

NuCurrent

Series A in 2014
NuCurrent is a developer of high-efficiency antennas for wireless power applications. Compliant across Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), Wireless Power Consortium (Qi) and Power Matters Alliance (PMA) standards, NuCurrent works closely with electronic device OEMs and integrators to custom-design, rapid-prototype and integrate the optimal antenna for a broad range of applications. NuCurrent’s patented designs, structures, and manufacturing techniques mitigate typical high-frequency effects, offering higher efficiency, smaller sizes, higher durability, and lower cost with wireless power application development. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Azumo

Series A in 2014
Azumo front light is here to light the way to the new era of high efficiency, durable displays that don’t fight the environment but work in tandem with it. The time has come for all of us to reflect on what displays can do for devices.

TruMarx Data Partners

Angel Round in 2012
TruMarx Data Partners is a cloud software platform. Their features include electronic and confidential posting of a requirement, one-to-one negotiation of terms, and automated transaction confirmations, enabling clients to get access to profitability, streamline compliance and trading efficiency, and gain a compelling competitive advantage.
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