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Burlington's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (view source)
Revision as of 12:32, 15 October 2020
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*[https://www.vtsbdc.org/ Vermont Small Business Development Center] based in Randolph Center,VT.
Update:
*[https://vermont.score.org/ Vermont's chapter of SCORE]!
==Meetings==
10th June 2019: Michael Metz. Enjoyed it so much that I went back with Lauren and did it all again on June 18th. Michael introduced me to Chelsea Lewis (VCF).
12th July 2019: Chelsea Lewis of [https://www.vermontcf.org/Home.aspx Vermont Community Foundation].
===Cairn Cross===
Cairn gave me the following leads:
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-wood-536a7234/ Chris Woods], Economic Development Projectpresumably of [https://balevt.org/ BALE - Building A Local Economy]*Catamount Innovation Fund-- It was a UVM student fund but the domain has expired[https://catamountinnovation.com]. It was started in 2017 by student Al Marchese[https://www.med.uvm.edu/com/news/2017/02/21/marchese_launches_catamount_innovation_fund_for_student_inventors].*Kayle [https://www.champlain.edu/academics/our-faculty/king-kylie Kylie King], Champlain College. Entrep. prof ~2yrs.
*Ken Meritt, Angel in VT. Also VT Network? and VC Venture Fair?
*LaunchVT - Emily and Nick (founders). Lee at Freshtracks is Chairman.
*Brian DeeganDegan - He's the managing partner at Fieldstone Capital Partners (see https://vermontbiz.com/company/fieldstone-capital-partners-llc) but doesn't have a website and isn't in SDC or crunchbase*[https://www.veda.org/ VEDA] -- Michael Schirling is on the board. He's based in Burlington and "was appointed Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development by Governor Phil Scott in December. Immediately prior to serving as Secretary, Schirling served as Executive Director of BTV Ignite". Michael Snyder "of Stowe was appointed Commissioner of Vermont Forests, Parks, and Recreation by Gov. Peter Shumlin in December 2010" is also on the board.
*CEI Community Ventures (out of Maine) also bid to run VCET $5m fund
*Vermont Worx - Bob Zulkoski and Frank Koster
*Will Price: $35m second fund in Bozeman Montana. Has a brother in Burlington. Got NVCA board excited about small regionals.
*[https://www.uvm.edu/cals/cdae UVM's Agricultural and Life Science Departments, CDAE: Community Development Applied Economics?]*[https://venturewell.org Venture Well? ], which was formerly the National Collegiate Inventors Alliance?. Note that Jerry Engel from Haas is a board member emeritus.
===Dave Bradbury===
*Jim Crook? and 1 more are active investors in VCET
*Ron Pearlman? is a local billionaire
Note that Ken Merritt is on the [https://vermontbiz.com/people/september/ken-merritt-joins-investment-committee-vcet-seed-capital-fund-rejoins-board investment selection committee].
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