December 6, 2017

  • The Midwest doesn’t have enough early-stage capital – here’s one (radical) solution

    The Midwest doesn’t have enough early-stage capital – here’s one (radical) solution

    Every founder, funder, and entrepreneurial support organization in the Midwest says the exact same thing: There just isn’t enough early-stage capital. Even a city with a relatively well-developed (by non-Silicon Valley standards) venture capital scene, like St. Louis, still faces a severe shortage of seed and pre-seed funding. That problem led several organizations to create…