Hyde Park Venture Partners

Hyde Park Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in Indianapolis, Indiana. Founded in 2011, the firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on high-growth technology startups in sectors such as B2B software, software-as-a-service, consumer technology, and healthcare IT. Hyde Park Venture Partners typically invests in the first or second round of institutional capital, aiming to bridge the gap between initial seed funding and later-stage investments. The firm prefers opportunities in the Midwest but will consider companies outside this region if they have a graduate of The University of Chicago in an executive role. Investment amounts range from $0.1 million to $2.5 million, with a strong emphasis on mentoring portfolio companies in areas such as product development, business strategy, and financing. The firm often co-invests with Hyde Park Angels, reflecting its collaborative approach to supporting startup growth.

Greg Barnes

Partner

Carlos Covarrubias

Associate

Jackie DiMonte

Vice President

Victoria Leon

Vice President

Dawn Nguyen

Associate

Alisa Vass

Partner and Chief Administrative Officer

Allison Weil Lechnir

Partner

Past deals in Illinois

Out Of Office

Seed Round in 2022
Out Of Office is a travel app for people to discover and share travel recommendations and restaurants with friends. The platform allows travelers to plan, discover and explore trendy hotspots, book hotels, and reserve tables, enabling travelers to find safe, flexible, curated accommodation via an easy-to-use and intuitive platform.

LandscapeHub

Series A in 2022
LandscapeHub is dedicated to streamlining the B2B procurement process in the Landscaping Industry. Buyers and suppliers increase efficiency, expand their networks and gain valuable market knowledge and insights by using LandscapeHub.LandscapeHub is a digital, B2B marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers within a central online platform.LandscapeHub represents quality suppliers across the country, aggregating their available inventory and pricing, empowering buyers with a “one stop shop” buying experience.

Leap

Series B in 2022
Leap Services, Inc. operates a retail-as-a-service platform designed to enhance the retail sector. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Leap enables brands to establish retail stores in optimal locations under favorable terms. The platform encompasses all facets of store development and operations, including physical space management, staffing, and technological infrastructure. This comprehensive approach allows consumer brands to accelerate growth and enhance customer engagement through a seamless omnichannel experience. Leap operates retail stores in major cities such as New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Miami, positioning itself as a vital partner for high-growth brands seeking to thrive in the evolving retail landscape.

Certiverse

Seed Round in 2022
Certiverse is a technology company that specializes in online certification and testing solutions. Its platform leverages cloud-based technology to facilitate the development and delivery of certification exams, enabling organizations to efficiently create, manage, and administer assessments. Certiverse aims to streamline the certification process by offering tools for item writing, exam publishing, and candidate management, all within a secure and scalable environment. This approach allows organizations to reduce time-to-market for new certifications and enhance the accessibility of their credentialing programs.

FactoryFix

Series A in 2022
FactoryFix Inc. is a Chicago-based company established in 2017 that operates a managed marketplace connecting manufacturing companies with a vetted network of skilled workers, including engineers, machinists, and maintenance technicians. The platform facilitates the hiring process by streamlining candidate vetting, generating job listings, and offering salary insights, thereby enabling manufacturers to find and hire skilled labor for both full-time positions and part-time projects. Job seekers can create profiles to match their skills with suitable employers, enhancing their chances of maximizing earning potential.

HData

Seed Round in 2021
HData helps data companies deliver and scale RegTech solutions that serve government regulators, regulated enterprises, markets, and investors. These solutions bring new technologies to transform old-fashioned regulatory activities, such as compliance, reporting, and regulatory analysis. By creating a unique combination of RegTech companies and solutions, HData is building a foundation for comprehensive RegTech platforms, integrating regulator- and enterprise-facing solutions, and digitizing the interface between the public and private sectors. HData’s founder and CEO is Hudson Hollister, who previously founded the Data Coalition and helped to craft key government data reforms such as the DATA Act of 2014.

ShipBob

Series E in 2021
ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictive insights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by [Divey Gulati](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/divey-gulati) and [Dhruv Saxena](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dhruv-saxena).

Certiverse

Seed Round in 2021
Certiverse is a technology company that specializes in online certification and testing solutions. Its platform leverages cloud-based technology to facilitate the development and delivery of certification exams, enabling organizations to efficiently create, manage, and administer assessments. Certiverse aims to streamline the certification process by offering tools for item writing, exam publishing, and candidate management, all within a secure and scalable environment. This approach allows organizations to reduce time-to-market for new certifications and enhance the accessibility of their credentialing programs.

FairX

Series B in 2021
FairX is a CFTC-regulated futures exchange designed to provide smaller, simpler, and more accessible futures trading options for active individual investors. The platform offers low-cost trading access around the clock, catering to the needs of retail investors worldwide. FairX focuses on delivering straightforward and easy-to-understand futures products, aiming to enhance accessibility and minimize barriers for those looking to engage in futures trading.

PreFlight

Seed Round in 2021
PreFlight automates software testing in the browser. There's no need for any technical knowledge. You simply record your tests, as if manually testing, then you can repeat those tests automatically, on-demand or on-a-schedule.

FourKites

Series D in 2021
FourKites, Inc. is a Chicago-based software company that specializes in developing a predictive supply chain platform for freight brokers and shippers. Founded in 2013, it provides a real-time tracking solution that enhances the visibility of shipments for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics companies, and freight brokers. The platform includes features like BackHaul Management, which helps identify potential deadhead miles, and CarrierLink, which facilitates real-time communication between brokers and owner-operators. By leveraging AI technology, FourKites creates comprehensive digital representations of supply chains, automates problem resolution, and improves collaboration among stakeholders. This approach enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen customer relationships through improved on-time performance and proactive management of shipment exceptions.

Kognitive Networks

Venture Round in 2021
K4 Mobility is a digital platform that harnesses the power of the Internet to provide services for maritime ships. K4's digital platform uses software algorithms to select the best networks, among the satellites and terrestrial options available today and in the future. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

NestEgg

Series A in 2020
NestEgg Online, Inc. is a real estate company that specializes in developing property management software for rental property owners and tenants. Founded in 2017 and based in Chicago, Illinois, NestEgg offers a comprehensive platform that simplifies property management tasks. The software enables independent landlords to efficiently manage their properties by automating rent collection, coordinating maintenance services, and providing access to trusted contractors at discounted rates. Its features enhance cash flow certainty for property owners while streamlining administrative tasks. By facilitating on-demand access to expert assistance, NestEgg empowers landlords to save time and maintain their properties effectively.
Upfront Healthcare Services, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that develops a data analytics platform aimed at improving the efficiency of physician practices in managing patient care. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on enhancing the ambulatory experience by automating and personalizing care navigation, which helps to engage patients effectively and optimize resource allocation. Its platform, known as Care Traffic Control, utilizes advanced analytics and personalized content to guide patients towards appropriate care options while addressing their specific needs. By offering insights derived from demographics, billing, scheduling, claims, and care gap data, Upfront Healthcare Services aims to increase appointment completion rates and improve health outcomes across healthcare systems.

ShipBob

Series D in 2020
ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictive insights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by [Divey Gulati](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/divey-gulati) and [Dhruv Saxena](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dhruv-saxena).

FairX

Series B in 2020
FairX is a CFTC-regulated futures exchange designed to provide smaller, simpler, and more accessible futures trading options for active individual investors. The platform offers low-cost trading access around the clock, catering to the needs of retail investors worldwide. FairX focuses on delivering straightforward and easy-to-understand futures products, aiming to enhance accessibility and minimize barriers for those looking to engage in futures trading.

PartySlate

Venture Round in 2020
PartySlate is a marketplace that inspires people planning all types of events and connects them with the leading event professionals, vendors, and venues across the country and the world. People planning all types of events — from weddings and holiday parties to birthday parties and galas — come to PartySlate to find new and unique party ideas, discover the best local vendors and venues, and build their event teams. Event professionals, venues, and vendors use PartySlate to grow their businesses, connect with industry peers, and reach more clients. Companies can share photos and videos from all types of events, get recognized for their work with our unique crediting system, and use their content-rich profiles as portfolio-sharing tools. Since its founding in 2016, over 25,000 of the world’s top venues, planners and vendors have uploaded over 2,000,000 photos of real weddings, corporate events and celebrations to the platform.

Leap

Venture Round in 2020
Leap Services, Inc. operates a retail-as-a-service platform designed to enhance the retail sector. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Leap enables brands to establish retail stores in optimal locations under favorable terms. The platform encompasses all facets of store development and operations, including physical space management, staffing, and technological infrastructure. This comprehensive approach allows consumer brands to accelerate growth and enhance customer engagement through a seamless omnichannel experience. Leap operates retail stores in major cities such as New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Miami, positioning itself as a vital partner for high-growth brands seeking to thrive in the evolving retail landscape.

FairX

Series A in 2019
FairX is a CFTC-regulated futures exchange designed to provide smaller, simpler, and more accessible futures trading options for active individual investors. The platform offers low-cost trading access around the clock, catering to the needs of retail investors worldwide. FairX focuses on delivering straightforward and easy-to-understand futures products, aiming to enhance accessibility and minimize barriers for those looking to engage in futures trading.

Fast Radius

Series B in 2019
Fast Radius, Inc. is a leading cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company. The Cloud Manufacturing Platform™ from Fast Radius is a first-of-its-kind solution that integrates design, production, and fulfillment operations through a common digital infrastructure to make manufacturing easier, more accessible, and more sustainable. Founded in 2017, Fast Radius, Inc. is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Atlanta, Louisville, and Singapore and micro-factories in Chicago and at the UPS Worldport facility in Louisville, KY.

FourKites

Series C in 2019
FourKites, Inc. is a Chicago-based software company that specializes in developing a predictive supply chain platform for freight brokers and shippers. Founded in 2013, it provides a real-time tracking solution that enhances the visibility of shipments for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics companies, and freight brokers. The platform includes features like BackHaul Management, which helps identify potential deadhead miles, and CarrierLink, which facilitates real-time communication between brokers and owner-operators. By leveraging AI technology, FourKites creates comprehensive digital representations of supply chains, automates problem resolution, and improves collaboration among stakeholders. This approach enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen customer relationships through improved on-time performance and proactive management of shipment exceptions.

PartySlate

Seed Round in 2019
PartySlate is a marketplace that inspires people planning all types of events and connects them with the leading event professionals, vendors, and venues across the country and the world. People planning all types of events — from weddings and holiday parties to birthday parties and galas — come to PartySlate to find new and unique party ideas, discover the best local vendors and venues, and build their event teams. Event professionals, venues, and vendors use PartySlate to grow their businesses, connect with industry peers, and reach more clients. Companies can share photos and videos from all types of events, get recognized for their work with our unique crediting system, and use their content-rich profiles as portfolio-sharing tools. Since its founding in 2016, over 25,000 of the world’s top venues, planners and vendors have uploaded over 2,000,000 photos of real weddings, corporate events and celebrations to the platform.

Truss

Series A in 2019
Truss Holdings, Inc. operates an online marketplace that simplifies the leasing process for small and medium-sized businesses seeking office, co-working, industrial, and retail spaces. Founded in 2016 and based in Deerfield, Illinois, its platform employs machine learning to match businesses with suitable properties, allowing users to virtually tour listings, compare prices, and manage lease documents seamlessly. The company offers dedicated brokers to support clients throughout the process, ensuring a smooth experience. Truss is noted for its commitment to price transparency, enabling business owners to compare costs of traditional office and co-working spaces effectively. Through its technology-driven approach, Truss provides a cost-effective solution for businesses looking to find the right space quickly and confidently.

chowly

Series A in 2018
Chowly specializes in providing technology solutions that link restaurant point-of-sale (POS) systems with third-party online ordering services. Its platform automates the order-processing workflow, allowing restaurants to seamlessly transfer online orders directly to their POS systems. This innovation reduces the need for manual order entry, which helps decrease staffing costs, minimizes errors, and enhances operational efficiency. By streamlining the ordering process, Chowly enables restaurants to save time and increase revenue while maintaining better control over their operations.

ShipBob

Series C in 2018
ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictive insights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by [Divey Gulati](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/divey-gulati) and [Dhruv Saxena](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dhruv-saxena).

Provi

Seed Round in 2018
Provi is the largest online marketplace that simplifies the complex process of ordering wholesale alcohol by connecting buyers, distributors and suppliers. Active in key markets throughout the U.S., Provi's robust, online marketplace improves communication and efficiency for on- and off-premise buyers, distributors and suppliers. As of 2022, 10 percent of licensed retailers in the U.S. are on the marketplace. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Provi has received a total of $125 million in funding, is valued at $750 million and has recently been named an Emerging Unicorn by Crunchbase. The company also received Built In Chicago's Best Places to Work recognition in 2022. In 2022, Provi joined forces with SevenFifty.

Fixer

Series A in 2018
Fixer is headache-free home repair. Customers book a skilled, experienced Fixer for any kind of home maintenance issue - confirming the hourly rate, estimate, and date + time online in seconds. The Fixer team handles any number of tasks big or small, often in just one visit. Quick, easy, finished. Fixer is a public benefit corp committed to providing training, certification and sustainable career paths for men and women in home repair and building trades.

LandscapeHub

Seed Round in 2018
LandscapeHub is dedicated to streamlining the B2B procurement process in the Landscaping Industry. Buyers and suppliers increase efficiency, expand their networks and gain valuable market knowledge and insights by using LandscapeHub.LandscapeHub is a digital, B2B marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers within a central online platform.LandscapeHub represents quality suppliers across the country, aggregating their available inventory and pricing, empowering buyers with a “one stop shop” buying experience.

FourKites

Series B in 2018
FourKites, Inc. is a Chicago-based software company that specializes in developing a predictive supply chain platform for freight brokers and shippers. Founded in 2013, it provides a real-time tracking solution that enhances the visibility of shipments for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics companies, and freight brokers. The platform includes features like BackHaul Management, which helps identify potential deadhead miles, and CarrierLink, which facilitates real-time communication between brokers and owner-operators. By leveraging AI technology, FourKites creates comprehensive digital representations of supply chains, automates problem resolution, and improves collaboration among stakeholders. This approach enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen customer relationships through improved on-time performance and proactive management of shipment exceptions.

Fast Radius

Series A in 2017
Fast Radius, Inc. is a leading cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company. The Cloud Manufacturing Platform™ from Fast Radius is a first-of-its-kind solution that integrates design, production, and fulfillment operations through a common digital infrastructure to make manufacturing easier, more accessible, and more sustainable. Founded in 2017, Fast Radius, Inc. is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Atlanta, Louisville, and Singapore and micro-factories in Chicago and at the UPS Worldport facility in Louisville, KY.

ShipBob

Series B in 2017
ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictive insights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by [Divey Gulati](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/divey-gulati) and [Dhruv Saxena](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dhruv-saxena).
Upfront Healthcare Services, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that develops a data analytics platform aimed at improving the efficiency of physician practices in managing patient care. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on enhancing the ambulatory experience by automating and personalizing care navigation, which helps to engage patients effectively and optimize resource allocation. Its platform, known as Care Traffic Control, utilizes advanced analytics and personalized content to guide patients towards appropriate care options while addressing their specific needs. By offering insights derived from demographics, billing, scheduling, claims, and care gap data, Upfront Healthcare Services aims to increase appointment completion rates and improve health outcomes across healthcare systems.

Precognitive Inc

Seed Round in 2017
Precognitive combines device intelligence and behavioral analytics with a real-time decision engine to accurately detect and prevent fraud.

PartySlate

Seed Round in 2017
PartySlate is a marketplace that inspires people planning all types of events and connects them with the leading event professionals, vendors, and venues across the country and the world. People planning all types of events — from weddings and holiday parties to birthday parties and galas — come to PartySlate to find new and unique party ideas, discover the best local vendors and venues, and build their event teams. Event professionals, venues, and vendors use PartySlate to grow their businesses, connect with industry peers, and reach more clients. Companies can share photos and videos from all types of events, get recognized for their work with our unique crediting system, and use their content-rich profiles as portfolio-sharing tools. Since its founding in 2016, over 25,000 of the world’s top venues, planners and vendors have uploaded over 2,000,000 photos of real weddings, corporate events and celebrations to the platform.

Provi

Seed Round in 2016
Provi is the largest online marketplace that simplifies the complex process of ordering wholesale alcohol by connecting buyers, distributors and suppliers. Active in key markets throughout the U.S., Provi's robust, online marketplace improves communication and efficiency for on- and off-premise buyers, distributors and suppliers. As of 2022, 10 percent of licensed retailers in the U.S. are on the marketplace. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Provi has received a total of $125 million in funding, is valued at $750 million and has recently been named an Emerging Unicorn by Crunchbase. The company also received Built In Chicago's Best Places to Work recognition in 2022. In 2022, Provi joined forces with SevenFifty.

LogicGate

Seed Round in 2016
LogicGate offers modern risk management technology empowering businesses to proactively transform risk enterprise-wide. Because risk is a team sport, we created the Risk Cloud Platform® — the most nimble and collaborative GRC solution out there. Rapidly adapt to changing business conditions. Confidently innovate and build new processes as you go. Collaborate on risk across your entire organization. Risk Cloud® gives you an interconnected view of risk across the organization that you just can’t get from point solutions.

InContext Solutions

Series F in 2016
InContext Solutions is the global leader in scalable web-based virtual reality (VR) shopping and retail solutions, allowing manufacturers and retailers to simulate real in-store shopping situations to ideate, evaluate and activate all types of merchandising, display, layout and other in-store shopping experiences within a VR store environment. Use of InContext’s ShopperMX™ platform delivers substantial cost savings and reduces capital expenditures by allowing clients to test and evaluate ideas in the VR store environment—as opposed to doing so in physical stores—while reducing competitive visibility. Founded in 2009, we provide a unique, in-depth perspective on what consumers see on the shelf, how this drives their purchase behavior, and why. With custom virtual reality research and ShopperMX™—the world’s first cloud-based virtual reality simulation and shopper insights platform that enables users to create and manipulate 3D simulations of shopper experiences and retail environments—InContext Solutions provides the data and insights needed to make faster, smarter and more profitable business decisions. We show clients how their ideas will play out in the real world—before they invest. From ideation of new in-store concepts, to evaluation with test shoppers, to activation in the market, our goal is to give clients confidence in their ideas so they can create winning in-store ideas and make smart business decisions. It’s hindsight, upfront.

FourKites

Series A in 2016
FourKites, Inc. is a Chicago-based software company that specializes in developing a predictive supply chain platform for freight brokers and shippers. Founded in 2013, it provides a real-time tracking solution that enhances the visibility of shipments for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics companies, and freight brokers. The platform includes features like BackHaul Management, which helps identify potential deadhead miles, and CarrierLink, which facilitates real-time communication between brokers and owner-operators. By leveraging AI technology, FourKites creates comprehensive digital representations of supply chains, automates problem resolution, and improves collaboration among stakeholders. This approach enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen customer relationships through improved on-time performance and proactive management of shipment exceptions.

Remote Year

Series A in 2016
Remote Year offers users to travel the world with 75 interesting people while working remotely. It allows users to spend a year working, travelling, and exploring 12 cities around the world. The 75 people will spend one month in each location, the community will connect with local cultures and business ecosystems, forming lifelong, borderless personal, and professional relationships along the way. Remote Year also provides professional workshops, guest speakers, and networking events in each city with personal development and local service activities within a collaborative community. It was founded on 2014 and is based in Highland Park, Illinois.

Tock

Series A in 2016
Tock is a comprehensive platform built to fundamentally change the way restaurants think about and run their business. This includes a robust reservation, guest, and table management system for restaurants of all sizes across the globe.

TurboAppeal

Series A in 2016
Founded in 2015, TurboAppeal provides sophisticated, yet simple property tax appeal services that combine exceptional customer service with the best in class technology to make the process of appealing each year intelligent and seamless. At our core, the machine-learning algorithm gets more accurate and smarter as we do more and more appeals, meaning that we are only improving. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, each year we are opening up more offices throughout the country.

TransparentCareer

Seed Round in 2016
TransparentCareer is building the next-generation career management platform for job seekers and employers. We are collecting the most robust compensation and career path dataset in existence to help professionals and students understand their fair pay and plan their careers. Our data enables us to provide compensation and career insights that are 1) personalized based on users’ backgrounds and 2) longitudinal, allowing users to visualize how one choice might impact their career path over time. No other product accomplishes these goals. Check it out at www.transparentcareer.com

Catalytic

Series A in 2016
Catalytic is the easiest path to break through corporate inertia. Many companies’ employees are overworked and their skills are under-utilized, resulting in an unrewarding employee experience and a costly missed opportunity for the business. Catalytic’s cloud-based, AI-powered automation platform bridges the gap between people, data and existing technologies, providing configurable automated actions that replace routine office work, like gathering data and creating documents. Business users can create their own process-driven solutions, which can be scaled throughout their business, leading to unprecedented efficiency and competitive edge. Clients like Bosch, Dentsu Aegis Network and UL have used Catalytic to better execute on their companies’ core purpose and mission, deliver high-quality customer experiences, and realize greater profitability.

Truss

Seed Round in 2016
Truss Holdings, Inc. operates an online marketplace that simplifies the leasing process for small and medium-sized businesses seeking office, co-working, industrial, and retail spaces. Founded in 2016 and based in Deerfield, Illinois, its platform employs machine learning to match businesses with suitable properties, allowing users to virtually tour listings, compare prices, and manage lease documents seamlessly. The company offers dedicated brokers to support clients throughout the process, ensuring a smooth experience. Truss is noted for its commitment to price transparency, enabling business owners to compare costs of traditional office and co-working spaces effectively. Through its technology-driven approach, Truss provides a cost-effective solution for businesses looking to find the right space quickly and confidently.

Catalytic

Seed Round in 2016
Catalytic is the easiest path to break through corporate inertia. Many companies’ employees are overworked and their skills are under-utilized, resulting in an unrewarding employee experience and a costly missed opportunity for the business. Catalytic’s cloud-based, AI-powered automation platform bridges the gap between people, data and existing technologies, providing configurable automated actions that replace routine office work, like gathering data and creating documents. Business users can create their own process-driven solutions, which can be scaled throughout their business, leading to unprecedented efficiency and competitive edge. Clients like Bosch, Dentsu Aegis Network and UL have used Catalytic to better execute on their companies’ core purpose and mission, deliver high-quality customer experiences, and realize greater profitability.

Pearachute

Seed Round in 2016
Drop in to the best kid classes in Chicago! Pearachute is a new way to help your child discover and explore activities that best fit your family’s schedule. From ballet to baseball, Pearachute gives you flexibility and variety - all in one monthly membership.

FourKites

Seed Round in 2016
FourKites, Inc. is a Chicago-based software company that specializes in developing a predictive supply chain platform for freight brokers and shippers. Founded in 2013, it provides a real-time tracking solution that enhances the visibility of shipments for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics companies, and freight brokers. The platform includes features like BackHaul Management, which helps identify potential deadhead miles, and CarrierLink, which facilitates real-time communication between brokers and owner-operators. By leveraging AI technology, FourKites creates comprehensive digital representations of supply chains, automates problem resolution, and improves collaboration among stakeholders. This approach enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen customer relationships through improved on-time performance and proactive management of shipment exceptions.

TurboAppeal

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2015, TurboAppeal provides sophisticated, yet simple property tax appeal services that combine exceptional customer service with the best in class technology to make the process of appealing each year intelligent and seamless. At our core, the machine-learning algorithm gets more accurate and smarter as we do more and more appeals, meaning that we are only improving. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, each year we are opening up more offices throughout the country.

Sentic Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Sentic Technologies is a Chicago-based start-up company pioneering the next level of data-driven moment marketing. The company’s new technology is utilized in numerous ways to improve online sales revenue and significantly enhance customer satisfaction.

PartySlate

Seed Round in 2015
PartySlate is a marketplace that inspires people planning all types of events and connects them with the leading event professionals, vendors, and venues across the country and the world. People planning all types of events — from weddings and holiday parties to birthday parties and galas — come to PartySlate to find new and unique party ideas, discover the best local vendors and venues, and build their event teams. Event professionals, venues, and vendors use PartySlate to grow their businesses, connect with industry peers, and reach more clients. Companies can share photos and videos from all types of events, get recognized for their work with our unique crediting system, and use their content-rich profiles as portfolio-sharing tools. Since its founding in 2016, over 25,000 of the world’s top venues, planners and vendors have uploaded over 2,000,000 photos of real weddings, corporate events and celebrations to the platform.

Avant

Series E in 2015
Avant operates an online marketplace that provides users with access to personal loans to consolidate debt, pay unexpected medical expenses, and for family vacations. Through the use of big data and machine-learning algorithms, the company offers a customized approach to streamline credit options. The company caters to consumers in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

G2

Series A in 2015
G2 is a platform to share business software reviews in real-time. It leverages more than 1.3 million user reviews to drive better purchasing decisions. G2 is used by business professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts to select the best software and services based on peer reviews and synthesized social data. The company was founded in 2012 and is based out of Chicago, Illinois.

Rithmio

Seed Round in 2015
Rithmio, Inc. specializes in gesture recognition technology, offering a platform that enables the development of gesture-based products. The company's software integrates with motion-sensing devices, including wearables, smartphones, and connected sports equipment, to learn, track, and analyze user movements in real time. Rithmio's flagship product, Constellation, is designed for next-generation wearables and connected clothing, allowing brands to seamlessly incorporate gesture recognition into their devices. The company has established strategic partnerships with prominent semiconductor and consumer electronics manufacturers, supporting the integration of its technology at various levels, including system on chip and reference design. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Rithmio was originally known as Neurogito, Inc. before rebranding in 2014.

FourKites

Seed Round in 2015
FourKites, Inc. is a Chicago-based software company that specializes in developing a predictive supply chain platform for freight brokers and shippers. Founded in 2013, it provides a real-time tracking solution that enhances the visibility of shipments for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics companies, and freight brokers. The platform includes features like BackHaul Management, which helps identify potential deadhead miles, and CarrierLink, which facilitates real-time communication between brokers and owner-operators. By leveraging AI technology, FourKites creates comprehensive digital representations of supply chains, automates problem resolution, and improves collaboration among stakeholders. This approach enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen customer relationships through improved on-time performance and proactive management of shipment exceptions.

TurboAppeal

Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2015, TurboAppeal provides sophisticated, yet simple property tax appeal services that combine exceptional customer service with the best in class technology to make the process of appealing each year intelligent and seamless. At our core, the machine-learning algorithm gets more accurate and smarter as we do more and more appeals, meaning that we are only improving. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, each year we are opening up more offices throughout the country.

Geofeedia

Series A in 2015
Geofeedia is specializing in location-based social media monitoring, intelligence, and analysis for corporate security, public safety, media and journalism, and marketing teams. Its patented platform enables organizations to derive social intelligence from specific geographic locations to understand, in real-time, what’s happening within the areas, which are most important to them. More than 300 of the world's leading brands and organizations, including Fortune 500 companies like McDonald’s and Dell, leading news outlets like the AP, BBC, and CNN, and major law enforcement agencies like the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, utilize Geofeedia’s powerful subscription-based service to gain real-time, actionable intelligence through hyper-local social media monitoring. Geofeedia was founded in 2011 by Scott Mitchell, Mike Mulroyand, and Phil Harris. It is headquartered in Chicago, I.L. with offices in Naples, Florida, and Indianapolis, Indiana.

Persio

Series A in 2015
Persio’s multi-channel marketing and decision platform put the power of personalization into marketers’ hands. Built to meet the needs of retailers, Persio connects marketers’ existing data sources, technology solutions, deployment channels, and identity resolution services into a single, interoperable interface so that marketers can deploy data-driven and personalized campaigns across web, email, SMS, mobile apps and other sales channels to reach customers with relevant offers at their most responsive point.

Detective

Seed Round in 2014
Detective is a digital adoption platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of software utilization within organizations. By addressing repetitive inquiries and streamlining the onboarding process, Detective significantly reduces training time for employees. The platform empowers teams by providing timely support and answers, thereby facilitating greater adoption of critical software tools. Additionally, it automates the sales research process, enabling users to improve outreach and cold call conversion rates. Trusted by a broad user base, Detective is focused on delivering practical solutions that enhance operational productivity and effectiveness.

Geofeedia

Series A in 2014
Geofeedia is specializing in location-based social media monitoring, intelligence, and analysis for corporate security, public safety, media and journalism, and marketing teams. Its patented platform enables organizations to derive social intelligence from specific geographic locations to understand, in real-time, what’s happening within the areas, which are most important to them. More than 300 of the world's leading brands and organizations, including Fortune 500 companies like McDonald’s and Dell, leading news outlets like the AP, BBC, and CNN, and major law enforcement agencies like the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, utilize Geofeedia’s powerful subscription-based service to gain real-time, actionable intelligence through hyper-local social media monitoring. Geofeedia was founded in 2011 by Scott Mitchell, Mike Mulroyand, and Phil Harris. It is headquartered in Chicago, I.L. with offices in Naples, Florida, and Indianapolis, Indiana.

Rithmio

Seed Round in 2014
Rithmio, Inc. specializes in gesture recognition technology, offering a platform that enables the development of gesture-based products. The company's software integrates with motion-sensing devices, including wearables, smartphones, and connected sports equipment, to learn, track, and analyze user movements in real time. Rithmio's flagship product, Constellation, is designed for next-generation wearables and connected clothing, allowing brands to seamlessly incorporate gesture recognition into their devices. The company has established strategic partnerships with prominent semiconductor and consumer electronics manufacturers, supporting the integration of its technology at various levels, including system on chip and reference design. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Rithmio was originally known as Neurogito, Inc. before rebranding in 2014.

InContext Solutions

Series D in 2014
InContext Solutions is the global leader in scalable web-based virtual reality (VR) shopping and retail solutions, allowing manufacturers and retailers to simulate real in-store shopping situations to ideate, evaluate and activate all types of merchandising, display, layout and other in-store shopping experiences within a VR store environment. Use of InContext’s ShopperMX™ platform delivers substantial cost savings and reduces capital expenditures by allowing clients to test and evaluate ideas in the VR store environment—as opposed to doing so in physical stores—while reducing competitive visibility. Founded in 2009, we provide a unique, in-depth perspective on what consumers see on the shelf, how this drives their purchase behavior, and why. With custom virtual reality research and ShopperMX™—the world’s first cloud-based virtual reality simulation and shopper insights platform that enables users to create and manipulate 3D simulations of shopper experiences and retail environments—InContext Solutions provides the data and insights needed to make faster, smarter and more profitable business decisions. We show clients how their ideas will play out in the real world—before they invest. From ideation of new in-store concepts, to evaluation with test shoppers, to activation in the market, our goal is to give clients confidence in their ideas so they can create winning in-store ideas and make smart business decisions. It’s hindsight, upfront.

ARRIVE

Series B in 2014
Arrive Mobility Inc. operates a transactional platform that connects drivers, fleets, and connected vehicles with parking solutions across North America. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers a marketplace where users can find, book, and pay for parking in advance, enhancing the parking experience by providing access to a diverse inventory of spaces. The platform enables customers to compare prices, locations, and amenities, and includes features for daily, monthly, and event parking, making it easier for users to make informed decisions. Arrive serves a broad range of clients, including car manufacturers, navigation companies, sports and entertainment venues, and smart cities. Originally known as ParkWhiz, Inc., the company rebranded to Arrive Mobility Inc. in September 2019, reflecting its expanded focus on smart parking solutions and integrated mobility services.

G2

Seed Round in 2014
G2 is a platform to share business software reviews in real-time. It leverages more than 1.3 million user reviews to drive better purchasing decisions. G2 is used by business professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts to select the best software and services based on peer reviews and synthesized social data. The company was founded in 2012 and is based out of Chicago, Illinois.

Modest Inc

Debt Financing in 2013
My name is Harper Reed. I am a engineer and architect heavily involved in social networks and the open source software movement. When I am not working or causing problems you can find me blogging about random stuff, yoyoing, juggling, hacking random internet appliances or going out and having a good time in Chicago.

Persio

Series A in 2013
Persio’s multi-channel marketing and decision platform put the power of personalization into marketers’ hands. Built to meet the needs of retailers, Persio connects marketers’ existing data sources, technology solutions, deployment channels, and identity resolution services into a single, interoperable interface so that marketers can deploy data-driven and personalized campaigns across web, email, SMS, mobile apps and other sales channels to reach customers with relevant offers at their most responsive point.

Food Genius

Series A in 2013
Food Genius is a leading foodservice data provider specializing in gathering, preparing, and serving granular foodservice menu data and analytics. We support foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors with straightforward and digestible reports, services, and analytics. Our products are used to answer many complex foodservice business questions. From competitive price tracking for optimization to statistical analysis of current burger toppings for the development new offerings, Food Genius has smarter data and analytics. Food Genius serves nationally recognized companies and brands, including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Arby’s, and US Foods. As an industry leader in foodservice data and analytics, Food Genius is on a mission to provide foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors with the data analytics they need to make smarter, more informed decisions.

FindIt

Debt Financing in 2013
FindIt is the easiest way to find emails and files across your cloud accounts using your smartphone. Search in a visual way using people, timing, and file types. Search Gmail, Google Drive, and Dropbox at the same time!

SimpleRelevance

Series A in 2013
SimpleRelevance's machine learning technology was acquired in December 2015 by Rise Interactive. To see more information about Rise, visit their page here: www.riseinteractive.com Read more about the machine learning technology below. SimpleRelevance is the only machine learning platform that leverages your existing tools and workflow to personalize your digital marketing messages. SimpleRelevance is the only multi-channel optimization platform that uses internal and external data to automate and execute smarter marketing messages. SimpleRelevance combines customers’ behavioral, demographic, and psychographic data, with patent-pending technology to create digital marketing messages that are individually personalized down to the time of day the message is sent, subject line, and product recommendations shown. The result? Higher conversions, sales, and ROI.

InContext Solutions

Series C in 2013
InContext Solutions is the global leader in scalable web-based virtual reality (VR) shopping and retail solutions, allowing manufacturers and retailers to simulate real in-store shopping situations to ideate, evaluate and activate all types of merchandising, display, layout and other in-store shopping experiences within a VR store environment. Use of InContext’s ShopperMX™ platform delivers substantial cost savings and reduces capital expenditures by allowing clients to test and evaluate ideas in the VR store environment—as opposed to doing so in physical stores—while reducing competitive visibility. Founded in 2009, we provide a unique, in-depth perspective on what consumers see on the shelf, how this drives their purchase behavior, and why. With custom virtual reality research and ShopperMX™—the world’s first cloud-based virtual reality simulation and shopper insights platform that enables users to create and manipulate 3D simulations of shopper experiences and retail environments—InContext Solutions provides the data and insights needed to make faster, smarter and more profitable business decisions. We show clients how their ideas will play out in the real world—before they invest. From ideation of new in-store concepts, to evaluation with test shoppers, to activation in the market, our goal is to give clients confidence in their ideas so they can create winning in-store ideas and make smart business decisions. It’s hindsight, upfront.

ARRIVE

Series A in 2012
Arrive Mobility Inc. operates a transactional platform that connects drivers, fleets, and connected vehicles with parking solutions across North America. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company offers a marketplace where users can find, book, and pay for parking in advance, enhancing the parking experience by providing access to a diverse inventory of spaces. The platform enables customers to compare prices, locations, and amenities, and includes features for daily, monthly, and event parking, making it easier for users to make informed decisions. Arrive serves a broad range of clients, including car manufacturers, navigation companies, sports and entertainment venues, and smart cities. Originally known as ParkWhiz, Inc., the company rebranded to Arrive Mobility Inc. in September 2019, reflecting its expanded focus on smart parking solutions and integrated mobility services.

Food Genius

Series A in 2012
Food Genius is a leading foodservice data provider specializing in gathering, preparing, and serving granular foodservice menu data and analytics. We support foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors with straightforward and digestible reports, services, and analytics. Our products are used to answer many complex foodservice business questions. From competitive price tracking for optimization to statistical analysis of current burger toppings for the development new offerings, Food Genius has smarter data and analytics. Food Genius serves nationally recognized companies and brands, including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Arby’s, and US Foods. As an industry leader in foodservice data and analytics, Food Genius is on a mission to provide foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors with the data analytics they need to make smarter, more informed decisions.

TapMe

Venture Round in 2012
Tap Me connects games to brands and brands to gamers with the next generation of in-game advertising that is easy, scaleable and effective.

InContext Solutions

Series B in 2011
InContext Solutions is the global leader in scalable web-based virtual reality (VR) shopping and retail solutions, allowing manufacturers and retailers to simulate real in-store shopping situations to ideate, evaluate and activate all types of merchandising, display, layout and other in-store shopping experiences within a VR store environment. Use of InContext’s ShopperMX™ platform delivers substantial cost savings and reduces capital expenditures by allowing clients to test and evaluate ideas in the VR store environment—as opposed to doing so in physical stores—while reducing competitive visibility. Founded in 2009, we provide a unique, in-depth perspective on what consumers see on the shelf, how this drives their purchase behavior, and why. With custom virtual reality research and ShopperMX™—the world’s first cloud-based virtual reality simulation and shopper insights platform that enables users to create and manipulate 3D simulations of shopper experiences and retail environments—InContext Solutions provides the data and insights needed to make faster, smarter and more profitable business decisions. We show clients how their ideas will play out in the real world—before they invest. From ideation of new in-store concepts, to evaluation with test shoppers, to activation in the market, our goal is to give clients confidence in their ideas so they can create winning in-store ideas and make smart business decisions. It’s hindsight, upfront.
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