Ira is a Partner with Hyde Park Venture Partners and has been with the firm since its beginning in 2011, following a decade as a successful angel investor.
Ira is also a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he teaches entrepreneurship and tax strategy. Ira has been actively investing in private companies for the past 20 years and has made over 125 venture capital and angel investments. He currently serves on the boards of portfolio companies FourKites, ShipBob, Cove Markets, LandscapeHub, 2ndKitchen, PartySlate, and NestEgg, as well as a board observer at Leap.