The Department of Health and Human Services will scale a more targeted effort, "DC-to-VC," to engage venture capitalists, innovators, and entrepreneurs who are increasingly focused on how to capitalize on reforms that promote health IT adoption, reform payment incentives to reward value, not volume, and liberate an unprecedented amount of health information.
Some might operate as relatively hands-off, diversified "social investors" and some as hands-on, engaged "venture philanthropists", the counterparts of mainstream venture capitalists.All this may sound fine in theory.
Engage Ventures is a new, Atlanta-based accelerator fund for early-stage deals.
For one new fund, the question isn't which corporate backer, but why not 10? Engage Ventures is a new, Atlanta-based accelerator fund for early-stage deals.
The funding is being led by Grotech Ventures and Initialized Capital, with another new investor, Aspect Ventures, and previous backers Atlanta Seed Company, Engage Ventures, OCA Ventures, BBG Ventures, IrishAngels and Wintrust Financial also participating.
Aspiring company founders visit or set up operations here to be closer to the innovation ecosystem - be it to attract engieering talent or engage with venture capitalists who can help to nuture a company from an idea to reality.
In all these ways, an engaged, trusted venture partner can influence the outcome.
"My clients invested in an incubator that was intended to become a publicly traded company engaging in venture capital activity," says Louis (Skip) Miller, the lawyer representing the so-called Series D investors who collectively gave Gross $1 billion two years ago.
We recommend engaging a venture lawyer who will have a feel for what is "market" and will be able to advise you on getting the best possible terms.
We have been too content to let our government engage in military ventures we cannot condone.
TODAY the term entrepreneur is reserved for people who engage in business ventures.
