Ira Weiss
VC investor and Professor
Chicago, Illinois
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Skills
Education
Investments
Leap
Total Funding: $290M
Audit Sight
Total Funding: $7M
HData
Total Funding: $13M
ShipBob
Total Funding: $330M
FourKites
Total Funding: $200M
NestEgg
Total Funding: $8M
PartySlate
Total Funding: $12M
Provi
Total Funding: $25M
LogicGate
Total Funding: $35M
AmpliFund
Total Funding: $15M
Tock
Total Funding: $28M
TransparentCareer
Total Funding: $850K
Catalytic
Total Funding: $11M
StreamLink Software
Total Funding: $14M
blooom
Total Funding: $4M
Avant
Total Funding: $580M
Base
Total Funding: $73M
G2
Total Funding: $250M
Arrive
Total Funding: $56M
Squirrell
Total Funding: $550K
SimpleRelevance
Total Funding: $1.2M
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.
Vice Chairman
2024
IVCA supports an entrepreneurial spirit in Illinois’ public policy that encourages economic and business development and rewards investment in job creation and job relocations. To that end, IVCA’s government affairs objectives seek to educate government officials in Illinois about the positive effects venture capital and private equity investment in Illinois has on economic and job growth and encourage Illinois officials to promote and maintain a business environment that supports venture capital and private equity investment in Illinois.
2022
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.
2021
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
2018
Board Member
2018
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.