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CDVCA is the network for the rapidly growing field of community development venture capital (CDVC) investing. CDVC funds provide equity capital to businesses in underinvested markets, seeking market-rate financial returns, as well as the creation of good jobs, wealth, and entrepreneurial capacity.

CDVCA promotes the field by combining advocacy, education, communications, and best-practice dissemination through conferences and workshops. CDVCA makes its expertise available to CDVC funds by providing consulting services and technical assistance.

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CDVC Capital Under Management: $1.2B
2009 Annual Conference Registration Open! PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 12 January 2009 18:40

Registration now open! Click here to register. This year's conference will take place at the Liaison Capital Hill in Washington, DC.

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An Interview with Michael Burgmaier PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 26 September 2008 09:03

Today the New Hampshire Union Leader unveiled a new "Ask the Expert" series featuring Michael Burgmaier of CEI Community Ventures Fund and Clear Venture Partners. For the month of October, Mr. Burgmaier will be responding to readers' questions about venture capital. Read more.

Mr. Burgmaier is a General Partner of Clear Venture Partners, which will be a $50 million fund focusing on New England companies. He is also a Principal with Portland, Maine-based CEI Community Ventures Fund

Previously:

Michael Burgmaier: The Venture Capital Process - Pizza and Nanotech?

 
Job Posting: Program Director, Entrepreneurial Signature Program (ESP) (Ohio University) PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 12 August 2008 21:31
Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs
Ohio University, Athens, OH
 
The Entrepreneurial Signature Program (ESP) Program Director provides intensive, high quality business development services in the Southeast Ohio region in a high energy, fast paced environment. This position serves as a key liaison, creating and maintaining partnerships with stakeholders in the region including institutions of higher education, financial institutions, economic development professionals, business assistance professionals, business incubators, the Small Business Development Centers in the region, other non-profit and governmental business development assistance organizations, private businesses and state agencies.
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Knoxville News Sentinel Discovers Portfolio Company PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 04 September 2008 09:33
The Knoxville News Sentinel today profiles Southern Appalachian Fund portfolio company Protein Discovery, a clinical diagnostics company developing new sample preparation technologies that harness the power of mass spectrometry.

In March, Protein Discovery closed a $10 million Series C round of equity financing led by Santé Ventures and joined by CDVCA member the Southern Appalachian Fund, among others.

As noted in the article, Protein Discovery has taken over an entire floor of a downtown Knoxville building, and upped its employee total to 20. The company was conceived at a 2001 University of Tennessee entrepreneurial class.

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Entrepreneur.com: VC firms are helping small-town companies hit it big PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 08 August 2008 19:11

"Thanks to CDVCs, ideas that come from small-town America are just as viable as those hatched in a high-rise boardroom." Entrepreneur.com interviews Meritus Ventures co-founder and fund manager Grady S. Vanderhoofven.

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