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Useful Links
Area Venture Capital Funds: Provide financing (known as venture
capital) for small businesses with perceived long-term growth
potential. Venture capital tends to come from a group of wealthy
investors, banks, investment firms, and other financial
partnerships. Venture Capital firms are most interested in
companies with very high growth potential and large financial
returns. As a result, these firms tend to be very selective when
choosing technologies to fund.
- North Carolina Venture Capital Firms:
- Georgia Venture Capital Firms:
Angel Investor Groups: An angel investor
is a wealthy individual who provides capital to one
or more startup companies, usually in exchange for
ownership equity (the value difference between
assets and liabilities). Angel investors
typically provide a degree of expertise and
experience in their field, but do not usually hold a
management position in the company. Angels
will pool their research and finances together to
form angel investor groups.
Small Business Incubators: Programs that
provide office and laboratory space, access to
communications technologies, and some capital
funding to small startup companies. Incubators
are considered a haven for small businesses who seek
the infrastructure, tools, and training needed to
develop their technology. In most incubator
programs, clients "enroll" in the program, mature
their technology through specialized development,
learn the strategies for successful marketing and
investment, and finally "graduate" from the program
when they have achieved an adequate level of
financial growth needed to continue to traditional
corporate growth schemes.
- South Carolina Technology Incubators:
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Univ. of S. Carolina Columbia Technology
Incubator: The USC Columbia Technology
Incubator is currently home to both regular and
student companies. Since its inception in
November 1998, it has provided opportunities for
USC faculty, staff, and students to
commercialize their ideas, produced successful,
financially viable and freestanding businesses,
and created hundreds of additional jobs in the
community.
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South Carolina Biotechnology Incubator Program:
a public/private, not-for-profit
organization composed of industry, university,
and private entities collaborating to develop
new life science companies in South Carolina. SC
Bio is a catalyst that aids in commercialization
supporting financial growth, process
development, and marketing for emerging life
science companies.
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SCRA Launch!: The South Carolina
Research Authority has established research
initiatives at three locations in South Carolina
(Clemson University, USC, and College of
Charleston) to provide assistance and investment
capital to companies for university research
commercializationh. The SCRA provides
resources in proof-of-concept, the patent
process, market research, and business plan
development.
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- U.S. Government Links:
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