Louis has the necessary ingredients-and its location is an advantage. We can help people not only think about business cases for their organizations but also the mission cases for it as well. Non-profits and social enterprises can not only make money but they can also give back to a certain group and people are willing to pay a premium for that. She said, “I think if anyone gets the importance of giving back and paying it forward, it’s St. Louis’ philanthropic reputation and how that strength represents not only social interests but a profitable business model. Louis and social entrepreneur, pointed out St. Keisha Mabry, Director of Innovation at College Bound St. Companies like Monsanto and others are starting to lead the way with a lot of corporate innovation and putting into place funding mechanisms that are going to bring together the prominence of the region in AgTech.” “If you look at funding reports, 58% of our funding comes from the life sciences and biotech areas.
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Anthony Richardson, General Partner of Agility Collective as well as author of the 2014 book Full-Scale: How to Grow Any Startup Without a Plan or a Clue, said: The panel identified Life Sciences, AgTech and Financial Services as clear strengths in the St. Louis has some unique strengths-including philanthropy. Here are some of the takeaways from the thought-provoking discussion. We have various perspectives on the panel that can help with that.” Setting the tone for the conversation, she said, “What we hope to achieve today with this discussion is a feedback loop for the St. Each one of the panelists possessed a unique combination of both local and national experience with startup development.Ĭolleen Jenkins, founder and CEO of PluggedIn, facilitated the panel. In addition to Miley, the panel included Zach Winkler (Founder and CEO of SafeTrek), Keisha Mabry (Director of Innovation at College Bound), Anthony Richardson (General Partner at Agility Collective) and Yvette Rodriguez-Acosta (VFA fellow and Associate at Cultivation Capital). Louis can continue to grow its ecosystem.” So while Leslie is in town, we want to have a panel discussion to brainstorm on this topic–how St. Louis as a city is really only seeing economic growth from companies that start here, stay here, and grow. “The VFA Executive in Residence program pairs Silicon Valley executives with startup cities and startups in those cities, like St. Trevor Tune, Program Director for Capital Innovators, provided some context for the relevance of Miley’s expertise to St. Panelists, from left to right: Yvette Rodrigues-Acosta, Leslie Miley, Zach Winkler, Keisha Mabry, Anthony Richardson. Trevor Tune of Capital Innovators welcomes guests. Miley gave the keynote at Capital Innovators Demo Day the following day. His goal at VFA is to fuel growth in startup communities outside Silicon Valley. The panel featured Leslie Miley, President of Venture for America’s (VFA) Executive in Residence (EIR) program, who previously served in engineering leadership roles at Slack, Twitter, Google and Apple. Louis titled, “How to Strengthen and Grow Your Startup Ecosystem.”
Louis-based accelerator hosted a panel discussion at T-REX with Cultivation Capital, Venture for America, and PluggedIN St. On Monday, May 15, the eve of Capital Innovators Demo Day, the St.
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