Roland Jacobs

HPA is a leading early-stage investor. Our People First model leverages world-class operating expertise, a powerful business network, and venture capital to fuel startup success. As a result, our founders transform their businesses into industry leaders, our investors generate best-in-class returns, and our community experiences job creation and economic growth.

Founded in 2014, Tribeca ESP is a FinTech-focused venture group. Our network of entrepreneurs and business leaders have domain expertise in institutional finance, technology, and deep science. With 70 limited partners, we have the collective experience and perspective that touches virtually every facet of the institutional finance landscape. We leverage our network to make informed investment decisions and to assist the companies in which we invest. We primarily focus on pre-A and A opportunities, though we have the ability to go earlier or later. Generally, we prefer to see revenue and referenceable clients before we invest. Since 2014, weve proven our value to our portfolio companies in a wide variety of ways, which has led to fantastic results. Weve made over 50 investments, have had many exits, and two IPOs. Most importantly, we are nice people who love to help our portfolio companies thrive!

HPA is a leading early-stage investor. Our People First model leverages world-class operating expertise, a powerful business network, and venture capital to fuel startup success. As a result, our founders transform their businesses into industry leaders, our investors generate best-in-class returns, and our community experiences job creation and economic growth.

The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Chicago is a forum for our entrepreneurially inclined alumni members to invest in and directly support the growth of early stage ventures, primarily located in the Chicago area and surrounding region. Recognized as one of Chicagos most active early stage investors, the organization consists of current and former executives, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists with a serious commitment to investing their capital, expertise, and time into high potential entrepreneurial ventures in order to enable their success. The program serves as a complement to the other programs within the Entrepreneurship Council; our Distinguished Speaker Series in Entrepreneurship and our Alumni New Venture Competition. Together these programs enable our alumni to continuously make a very real impact on our entrepreneurial ecosystem.

AspireUp is a strategic marketing consultancy dedicated to helping organizations grow. We work with clients all over the world to solve growth challenges, focusing primarily on: - Building strong brands - Creating effective marketing plans - Developing new products and services AspireUp partners very closely with our clients to develop solutions that are practical and results oriented. Every AspireUp consultant is a top performer and brings deep experience, both as a consultant and as a practitioner directly accountable for results

Various board memberships