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Chicago-based Hyde Park Venture Partners closes $98M Fund IV with two investments made so far

Hyde Park Venture Partners is known for having visibility into more than 90% of mid-continent startups, including ShipBob.

They join repeat backers, including the Illinois Growth and Innovation Fund, RK Mellon Foundation and Renaissance Venture Capital. HPVP has already invested in two companies from the fund: Diffit, which leverages generative AI to enable teachers to create customized lesson plans, and CivCheck, which partners with cities and architects to accelerate the building permitting process. On the same panel, Kelli Jones, general partner of Indianapolis-based Sixty8 Capital, said “all legacy industries that have not been touched by tech and digitization are the things that are going to push our economy forward.

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