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Ira Weiss

VC investor and Professor

Chicago, Illinois

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Skills

Venture Capital
Entrepreneurship
Start-ups
Valuation
Private Equity
Mergers
Financial Modeling
Economics
Due Diligence
Investments
Angel Investing
Research

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2011

    HPVP is an early stage venture fund focused on software startups in the Midwest. With offices in Chicago and Indianapolis and a network of advisors throughout the Midwest, the firm invests in startups raising their first or second institutional round of capital. Example investments include high growth B2B software startups FourKites, Farmlogs, BaseCRM, G2Crowd, ShipBob and Terminus.

  • Clinical Professor of Entreprenuership and Accounting

    2006

    I teach overachieving MBA students about venture capital investing, entrepreneurship, accounting and tax strategy.

  • Investor/Board Observer

    2022

2021

  • Investor/Board Observer

    2021

    Automated compliance and regulatory reporting for the energy utility industry

  • Board of Trustees

    2021

    Secure Illinois Retirements is a non-profit organization committed to bringing public-sector workers and elected officials together to find resilient solutions to the state's public retirement shortfall.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Audit Sight is an enterprise software company that automated the testing and verification of transactions. It is used by accounting firms and diligence providers to automate testing and transaction verification.

2020

  • Investor/Board Observer

    2020

  • Board Member

    2018

  • Board Member

    2018

    Company provides payment solutions for truck drivers, carriers, warehouses, repair & tow and 3PLs. Initially a board observer, and then a board member.

  • Board Member

    2016

    Shipping and fulfillment platform for SMB eCommerce.