HPA operates in the financial services sector, focusing on early-stage investments. The company's People First model combines venture capital, a robust business network, and top-tier operating expertise to support the growth of its portfolio companies. HPA's services extend to all stages of a company's lifecycle, from seed to growth stages, providing financial and strategic support to help businesses thrive. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

HPA (Hyde Park Angels)

Frasers Property is a company that owns, develops and manages a diverse portfolio of properties across the globe. At Frasers Property, the integrated portfolio and services they provide across the property value chain are unified by their commitment to deliver enriching and memorable experiences for their customers and stakeholders. They have businesses in Southeast Asia, Australia, Europe and China, and their well-established hospitality footprint spans over 80 cities across Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Frasers Property

CMT is a dynamic proprietary trading and financial services firm with a proven track record. Founded in 1997, CMT has adapted and succeeded in bull and bear markets, enduring the swings and dips of the economy for nearly 2 decades. CMT is a known player in the low-latency, high frequency trading scenes both in the US and Europe. In addition CMT has a successful private equity and venture capital group, investing and sitting on the boards of early stage corporations in various industries.

CMT Capital Markets Trading

Morgan Stanley, from the number of their offices and employees to the experience of their management and the quality of their financial results, the facts about Morgan Stanley tell an impressive story.  Morgan Stanley and its people have helped redefine the meaning of financial services. The firm has continually broken new ground in advising its clients on strategic transactions, pioneering the global expansion of finance and capital markets, and providing new opportunities for individual and institutional investors.  Morgan Stanley maintained comprehensive corporate governance guidelines for years before corporate governance became headline news.

Morgan Stanley

Environmental Systems Design is a engineering design firm.

Environmental Systems Design

Wintrust Ventures was formed to encourage and support Chicago's innovative community with guidance and investment options for venture start-ups.  It is a subset of Wintrust Financial, a community-oriented personal and commercial financial services provider with 15 wholly owned banking subsidaries across greater Chicago, IL and southern Wisconsin.    Wintrust Ventures has partnerships with entrepreneurs in B2B, technolgy, e-commerce, AI, analytics, SaaS, and many other areas.  While its sector focus is generally agnostic, Wintrust Ventures focuses on start-ups with its head quarters or other nexus in the Chicago area.

Wintrust Ventures

We are flexible capital focused on venture capital and private equity opportunities for our partners.

Three Bridges Private Capital

Cohesion

Cohesion is an information technology company that offers a vertically integrated smart building SaaS platform. It empowers real estate owners to maximize asset and portfolio value with all building systems, workflows, and people seamlessly connected in one intelligent building platform. The integration provides one unified access platform for building operators to control and improve building health and security, tenant experience, smart building operations, as well as automation. Cohesion’s platform provides the most actionable insights in the market, enabling owners to reduce costs, enhance tenant experiences and increase operational transparency.

Cohesion is a developer of digital twin platforms for commercial real estate buildings. It uses AI and predictive modeling to combine its knowledge on humans, buildings, and environment in one solution to create autonomous buildings. The company’s platform features include air quality sensors, parking access integration, occupancy sensors, tenant experience app, and dashboard and insights.&nbsp;

Using real-time data to create dynamic virtual representations of the real world

Digital Twin

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Cohesion is a developer of digital twin platforms for commercial real estate buildings. It uses AI and predictive modeling to combine its knowledge on humans, buildings, and environment in one solution to create autonomous buildings. The company’s platform features include air quality sensors, parking access integration, occupancy sensors, tenant experience app, and dashboard and insights.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIt operates a B2B business model, targeting real estate developers. As of November 2022, the company’s clients owned a total of 18.5 billion square feet of commercial buildings. The company’s key customers include Frasers Property, Riverside Investment and Development, The John Buck Company, and JIL.Cohesion has several partners strategically aligned across key initiatives in smart building technologies. Partnerships with Butlr, Datawatch Systems, Open Options, and Flash (December 2022) focus on expanding product reach and integrating advanced access control and mobility solutions into smart buildings. Collaborations with Siemens (August 2022), Mind Body (August 2022), and Crestron (January 2022) aim to enhance analytics and improve tenant experience through integrated access control, fitness amenities management, and real-time space usage insights. Additionally, the partnership with Prism (February 2022) emphasizes operational efficiency by synchronizing service request functionalities.Funding and financialsThe company raised USD 15 million in November 2021 in a Series A funding round led by Hyde Park Angels Morgan Stanley. The funds were allocated towards expanding its digital twin technology.

Norway-based Cognite is a provider of digital twin modeling software for an entire operation through complex industrial data. With machine learning and physics simulators, companies are able to use these for predictive maintenance, production optimization, and better decision-making.&nbsp;Its main solution Cognite Data Fusion offers an open industrial digital twin by integrating IT, operational, and engineering data from sources such as ERPs, MES, and IoT platforms. The data is cleaned and contextualized into a single location and turned into insights for actionable advice, which then is used to build and automate workflows. The company claimed to be the first company to <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17445">achieve DNV-RP-A204 compliance </a>for its core product, Cognite Data Fusion.&nbsp;In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16217">February 2023</a>, the company advanced with new data-modeling capabilities to accelerate (up to 10–25x) deployments of industrial digital solutions and reduce cost and complexity for users. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25399">January 2024</a>, the company launched the beta version of a GenAI remote operations control room at the Celanese facility to deliver real-time operational transparency.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe company provides its solution mainly to the oil and gas, power and utilities, and manufacturing sectors. Its key customers include Siemens and Rockwell Automation.&nbsp;The company had partnered with Microsoft in January 2024 to integrate Cognite Data Fusion with Microsoft Fabric and deliver an AI-powered industrial data operations solution. In June 2022, Cognite formed a joint venture, CNTXT, with Saudi Aramco to provide its digitization services in the Middle East region for the private and public sectors. Also, in October 2022, the company partnered with industrial automation company Rockwell Automation to develop an industrial data hub for the manufacturing sector by combining Rockwell’s software, FactoryTalk, and Cognite Data Fusion.Furthermore, in September 2022, the company partnered with Schlumberger to integrate Cognite Data Fusion to Schlumberger’s Enterprise Data Solution to contextualize data in an interoperable platform.&nbsp;Funding and financialsThe company raised USD 150 million in May 2021 in an equity funding round from TCV, which brought the valuation of the company to USD 1.6 billion. The funds were allocated toward expanding its platform to global industries.&nbsp;Furthermore, in January 2022, petroleum and gas company Saudi Aramco purchased 100% of Aker BP's shares in Cognite to own a majority stake of 7.4% at a value of USD 183 million.

Cognite

Nexar develops AI-powered connected dash cameras and software solutions for vehicles. The company's dash cameras record high-definition video footage of both the exterior and interior of vehicles, with models offering resolutions ranging from 1080p to 4K. Its products feature automatic incident detection, GPS tracking, parking mode surveillance, and cloud backup capabilities. The cameras connect to smartphones via WiFi and utilize an AI-powered mobile app that automatically saves important clips and allows users to access footage remotely. Nexar's product lineup includes several models like the Nexar One (featuring 4K resolution and LTE connectivity), Nexar Beam (a compact single-lens camera), and Nexar Pro (a dual-lens system for interior/exterior recording). The cameras use AI algorithms to detect collisions, hard braking events, and other incidents, automatically generating detailed reports with video evidence, location data, and speed information for insurance claims.
Key customers and partnerships
The company primarily serves individual drivers, ride-share operators, and commercial fleet operators. Nexar's technology particularly appealed to professional drivers, ride-share services like Uber and Lyft, and fleet management companies looking to monitor driver behavior and vehicle security remotely. The company also caters to parents monitoring teen drivers through its real-time alert and tracking capabilities.

Nexar

Seeq is a provider of data analytics enabling insights, predictions, and collaboration for better production and business outcomes.The company’s product portfolio includes software for data analytics including 1) Seeq Workbench for advanced analytics, 2) Seeq Organizer for publishing reports and dashboards, 3) Seeq Data Lab for accessing Python libraries, and 4) Seeq Cortex for IT governance, data connectivity, and calculation features. Furthermore, the company provides deployment via cloud, SaaS solutions, and on premise depending on the customer’s system.Key customers and partnershipsThe company provides its services in more than 40 countries focusing on process manufacturing industries, including oil and gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, mining, and food and beverage. In June 2024, Seeq partnered with Equinor, an international energy company, to leverage Seeq's platform across Equinor's global assets.Seeq’s software is built on long-term vendor partnerships such as SIsoft, Honeywell (since 2017), and Siemens (since 2017). Seeq has also partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure to develop features specific to their offerings, recognizing Seeq's expertise in providing cloud solutions for the manufacturing and industrial sector. Other partners include Schneider Electric and Inductive Automation.

Seeq

Q Bio provides a predictive assessment platform to analyze existential risk in an individual’s health. The company claims its platform, Gemini Digital Twin, is the fastest and safest scanner, and taking 15 minutes to scan the entire body.The company provides the Q Exam, which gathers millions of data points from the individual’s body, such as blood, saliva, and vitals, and sends results via a web-based Q Dashboard to the individual’s physicians. Data is facilitated via the Gemini platform that captures whole body patient vitals in a non-invasive manner.&nbsp;&nbsp;The company operates a B2B2C business model offering services via employers and to individuals. It charges membership plans for one year at USD 3,495 for one exam and USD 6,495 for two exams.&nbsp;Q Bio's is developing the Mark I scanner which uses proprietary tensor field mapping technology to offer full-body scans with 3,000 anatomical measurements in just 10 minutes, creating digital twins and large biological models for health insights. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31878">July 2024</a>, Q Bio secured USD 27 million in strategic funding to propel the Mark I scanner toward market launch.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIn May 2021, the company partnered with Amazon Web Services to provide Q Bio’s services on its cloud platform.

Q Bio

Israel-based Locusview has developed a digital construction management platform to allow companies to manage projects from start to end. The platform is supported by technological capabilities in physical assets, such as plastic and steel pipes, to enable a digital thread (information of an asset such as model or size) and for supply chain and asset traceability.&nbsp;The platform provides features to manage construction projects in and off the field including GPS and sensor-based data collection, fieldwork validations, cloud-based deployment and scaling, real-time progress tracking, online approvals, and built-in reports. Furthermore, companies can lease the complete solution or get a consultation for a customized solution.The company operates a B2B business model, providing its services mainly to the energy, utilities, and telecom industries.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s customer base includes more than 30 leading energy utilities and telecom companies. The company has a market presence in India, the US, Australia, Mexico, the UK, and Israel.&nbsp;The company had partnered with Esri to offer a complete end-to-end solution for Esri-based utilities. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Funding and financialsThe company raised USD 64 million in April 2021 in a Series A funding round led by Israel Growth Partners. The funds were used to expand the platform capabilities and for market expansion.

Locusview

Companies that facilitate the creation of digital twins to monitor and maintain assets, including buildings and network infrastructure.

Platforms that facilitate digital twin modeling by either collectively or individually offering any combination of data capture and analytics solutions.

Companies that offer digital twins to gain insights for use in commercial planning, logistics and distribution, and other supply chain processes.

Companies that offer digital twins to assess risks and recommend solutions in areas such as disaster management, DNA testing, clinical trials (to simulate effects of treatments), etc.

Companies that offer digital twins to design and build components contributing to smart cities, roads, airports, public transportation systems, etc.

Startups can create digital twins of cities; enables modeling/simulation to improve efficiency/quality of life

Startups can use digital twins to automate and proactively monitor industrial production lines and facilities

Digital twins are the primary enabling technology for the digital twin industry

Information to create a more efficient, cleaner and safer way to travel in the city of the future

Cohesion

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