Laura Markley
Read as NRV's Director of Investments, Laura Markley, delves into the trends in the sizes of venture capital deals, and the outlook for 2018.
Crowdfund Insider
"WealthForge reports these investments have helped fund more than 300 private offerings hosted on their platform, with an average offering size of $17 million."
Huffington Post
“Like Pryze is disrupting crowdfunding and sweepstakes, Moonlighting is disrupting recruiting. These two companies are good examples of how even the most mature markets are facing new disruptive competitors.”
InvestmentNews
"Now, rather than wait months to get a life insurance policy, some companies can issue fully underwritten policies — that is, those taking full medical history into account — within one to two weeks"
Axion
"U.S. venture capitalists invested $84 billion into 8,035 companies in 2017, up from $72 billion in 2016 and the highest annual total since the dotcom era."
ICX Media Builds Executive Team, Board of Directors
DCINNO
"Today, ICX Media announced they’re bringing on a new president and chief operating officer, Scott Bowen, as the company prepares for its next phase of growth. Along with this announcement, ICX Media has also recruited Laura Lang, former TIME Inc. CEO, to its board of directors."
Venturebeat
"Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, and western Pennsylvania ... have seen an increase in the number of seed and early stage investments in the past several years, relative to the rest of the nation."
Join NRV Directors Paul Nolde and Laura Markley as they discuss Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) - an emerging crowdfunding tool that enables start-ups to raise capital on a viral/crypto currency exchange.
UVA Friday Forum Webinars
Watch NRV Director of Business Development, Paul Nolde offer his perspective on the VC industry.
WRIC
RICHMOND, Va. — A local company making products from superfoods is cultivating quite a following. Health Warrior is one of the fastest growing companies out there and it’s all thanks to an ancient seed.
“You’re no longer a Division I athlete, you are lucky if you squeeze in a 30-minute run,” says Health Warrior CEO Shane Emmett. “You actually have to start paying attention to what you eat if you want to feel good.”
Richmond Times Dispatch
A Richmond-based venture capital firm has raised $33 million to invest in promising early-stage businesses in the Richmond region and throughout Virginia.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
“'Territory is at the convergence between technology and healthy lifestyles, and we love that,' said Ted Chandler, co-founder and managing director of NRV. 'Territory is right at that inflection point of bringing choice to health-conscious eaters, where they can get delicious meals that are prepared with the knowledge that the ingredients will fit their health objectives.'”
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Entrepreneur
"Venture capital (VC) firms are often regarded as the holy grail of startup financiers. But what do venture capitalists want? For entrepreneurs in search of funding, this is the perennial question."
Village Capital
"Several months ago, our team set out to tilt against the windmills — to create a new tool to identify and communicate what makes a founder 'strong'."
E Campus News
“A new report predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) in the U.S. education sector will grow 47.5 percent through 2021.”
Hackernoon
"A Day 1 city, much like a startup, doesn’t have to know all the answers in order to be successful. Sometimes it just has to decide and commit."
Food Navigator USA
"After announcing the funding round – supported by London-based Tate & Lyle Ventures, L.A-based PowerPlant Ventures, Virginia-based NRV, and San Francisco-based Blueberry Ventures - Nutriati co-founder Mike Spinelli said the protein had unique functional properties that opened up application opportunities in everything from gluten-free baked goods to meat and dairy alternatives, ice cream and pasta."
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TechCrunch
"Innovation is a hot topic, and it can be confusing for large corporations. With terms like incubator, accelerator and corporate venturing frequently mentioned, but rarely defined, the menu of innovation options can be overwhelming."
Business Insider
"Every day, write down a few frustrations. And then at the end of the week, you'll have maybe 10 problems. By the end of the month, maybe you have 40 to 50 problems. And then you can spend time thinking about: Is there a viable business in solving any of these everyday frustrations?"
"As a percentage of the overall grocery retail market, Amazon’s $350m in Q1 grocery sales (annualized – that’s $1.4bn) is pretty small fry. But its mouthwatering 30% year-on year-growth suggests that CPG manufacturers that don’t have a clear strategy for how to engage with Amazon now risk missing out on big opportunities further down the road, says e-commerce data firm One Click Retail."