Golden
Capital Network was founded on the belief that innovation-based
entrepreneurial development can be accelerated by focusing on three
important components:
Build Local & Regional Private Equity Investment Capacity
Provide Targeted and Timely Business Assistance Services
Highlight and Sustain Deal Flow
Our two divisions, Golden Capital Venture Events and Golden Capital Venture Communities, along with a strategically-aligned Golden Capital Venture Funds, connects the three components of a region's innovation network to accelerate entrepreneurial development.
Golden Capital Venture Events
provide significant opportunities to showcase promising deal flow
opportunities. Since 1999, Golden Capital Venture Events has produced
over 35+ major venture forums, along with 50+ other regional
entrepreneur and investor education and networking events. Golden
Capital Venture Events has coached and showcased more than 1000
companies to over 500 active, accredited angel and VC investors at our
events. Alumni companies who have presented at past Golden Capital
Venture Events have raised over $1.3 billion from angel investors and
venture capital firms.
Golden Capital Venture Communities
provides a platform for communities to showcase their most promising
growth companies to an expansive network of investor and business
experts through in innovative online portal. Golden Capital Venture
Communities supports economic development efforts that focus on growth
entrepreneurship and investing within communities. Golden Capital
Venture Communities partners with economic development, business
support and technology development organizations to assist communities
build their innovation economies from within using a grass-roots
approach. Partner groups lead the local effort using a selection of
tools and best practices licensed from GCN to create a locally-driven
initiative that is "powered by Venture Communities."
Golden Capital Venture Funds
benefits from strong relationships with early and later-stage investor
for co-investment or follow-on investment opportunities. Golden Capital
Venture Fund invests, manages, and networks private equity on behalf of
angel investors. GCVF strives to generate superior investment returns
and enhance regional economic growth by proactively investing in a
portfolio of high-potential companies in overlooked, high-growth
California markets. Golden Capital Venture Fund is unique given its
target investment region, its syndicate of Investment Chapters, and
strategic partnership with Golden Capital Network, one of the premier
networking and deal sourcing organizations on the West Coast. Golden
Capital Venture Fund will typically serve as the first outside capital
invested in growth companies. Golden Capital Venture Fund invests early
and often to fill the $100,000–$500,000 early-stage funding gap between
founder capital and institutional venture capital.