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.
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.
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.
The case illuminates the risks that prominent news and opinion makers face when they engage in outside ventures or appear to endorse products.
Born in New York, Mr. Singer moved to Corpus Christi in 1937 to engage in business ventures in oil and gas production, refining, banking, real estate and communications.
The apparent co-operation between a number of families is highly unusual, but Ms White said that, in an effort to make money on Wall Street, they had begun to engage in "joint ventures".
Nevertheless, a "divestment" campaign is asking universities across the country to stop investing money in Israeli firms and in other firms that have Israeli subsidiaries or engage in joint ventures with Israelis.
"The accountants are gatekeepers and are essential to the integrity of the system," said Paul Berger, a lawyer in the enforcement division of the S.E.C. "When they engage in joint ventures with clients, the entire audit process is subverted".
