Tag: venture capital
The entrenched venture capital gender gap
Venture capital plays an important role in helping new businesses get off the ground. The field also has a stubborn gender gap.
More than 4...
Blue and green startups avoiding funding crunch
Over the past year, declining investments, layoffs and uncertainty about the future have plagued tech companies throughout the U.S. And while tech giants such...
Thorne Sparkman
Thorne Sparkman is constantly on the hunt.
His quarry? Entrepreneurs with transformational ideas in areas such as health care and energy and the grit to...
George Cobleigh Joins CBIZ as Managing Director
George Cobleigh joined CBIZ as a Tax Managing Director in our Private Equity/Venture Capital Group and works out of both the Providence, RI and...
How the GA-backed investment fund works
This is how the Small Business Development Fund, as approved by the General Assembly, would work: The state would issue up to $42 million in...
Providence venture capital startup targets Boston-to-New York corridor
PROVIDENCE – The small but growing community of local firms and organizations devoted to supporting promising entrepreneurs has a new member: Octane Venture Labs.
The...
Ocean State starting to see growth in biotech industry
RI BIO, a Providence-based biotechnology trade association, is on a mission to put Rhode Island on the biotech industry’s map. Despite the state having...
How private equity and venture capital firms can improve internal tax...
Private equity and venture capital fund activity comes with time-intensive tax reporting requirements, from managing the completion and delivery of the Schedule K-1 to...
Venture capital needs geographic diversity
The U.S. high-technology industry looks like it may be too concentrated. One sign of this is the lack of geographic diversity in the venture...
Horan creates private venture capital firm
PROVIDENCE – After more than 15 years of advocating for the private sector to take a bigger role investing in early-stage startups, Richard G....
