Our good friends up at Chrysalis Ventures in Kentucky just locked up their 4th fund – a nice $163M warchest. If you are an Atlanta entrepreneur, and you don’t know Chrysalis – you need to, especially if you are in the healthcare, media, or business services sectors. These guys are big supporters of our efforts …
The next Angel Lounge meeting is coming up on Thursday, March 6th at 11:30-1pm. If you are interested in attending, contact me and I’ll put you in touch with the right person. To attend, you must either be (A) an active angel investor here in Georgia, or (B) someone who is interested in becoming an …
My good friend and StartupLounge.com co-conspirator, Mike Blake, is going to be presenting a very “unique” presentation at the upcoming TAG/ATDC Entrepreneurs gathering on March 6th. Sadly, I will be out of town, and won’t be able to attend, but trust me, you will want to attend this one. Mike has put together perhaps one …
We just closed off registrations for our upcoming February 6th, 2008 installment of the StartupLounge.com Capital Connections event. Looks like we’re set for another fantastic event with a full slate of 200+ people. As part of our new platform (which is still under development), we’re tracking lots of different metrics about our events. Here are …
Yesterday we held our first “Angel Lounge” meeting in Atlanta as part of our ever-expanding efforts through StartupLounge.com. I’ve been incredibly swamped today, so I’m just getting around to jotting down some of my thoughts on it. The idea is devilishly simple.
According to our good friends Eric Gregg and Allen Maurer at TechJournalSouth, the Georgia Research Alliance is launching a new venture fund (details below). A good move, although I think the amount invested by the state is on the small end. A lot of the research coming out of the universities will require significant amounts …
As we continue to evolve our efforts at StartupLounge.com, we’re always trying to find new and innovative ways to foster early-stage entrepreneurship in the Southeast. In anticipation of our next StartupLounge.com Capital Connections event, we have decided to hold another quarterly event: Angel Lounge. There are a lot of new angel investors out there, as …
If you are an early-stage entrepreneur in the Southeast U.S., and you want to come hang out with a couple hundred like-minded investors and entrepreneurs, you won’t want to miss the next StartupLounge.com Capital Connections event. Cheers.
I’ve been so busy with PlayMotion over the past few months that I hadn’t realized that there was a bug in PWC/MoneyTree scripts that generate the cool dashboard on my home page showing Georgia venture capital activity. The bug is fixed, so the data is now accurate. The other good news, is that there was …
Q4 is upon us, and it is time for the next StartupLounge.com Capital Connections Event. There were over 200 entrepreneurs and investors at our last event, and the fun fest continues on Tuesday, November 27th! To our knowledge there have been at least 10 deals that have gotten investor traction from our first two events, …