Capital Gravity Arizona

Capital Gravity Arizona is a statewide “capital accelerator” program that attracts and prepares high-net-worth individuals to make (and startup founders to raise) their first ever seed-stage investment. Capital Gravity’s powerful model is designed to increase the number and diversity of investors and improve the quality of deal flow in Arizona’s ecosystem in these key ways: -- Expanding the amount of equity-based capital available to invest in scalable startups -- Providing experience-based education and networking among both first-time investors and founders of innovation-based startups -- Creating a development pipeline for new and more diverse high-net-worth individuals to become active startup investors -- Establishing a pipeline for new and more diverse fund managers to help create and grow new Arizona-based investment funds -- Establishing an integrated community for support and collaboration among founders and investors -- Ensuring that access to the Capital Gravity programming, funding, networks and resources is available to diverse communities all across Arizona, especially in the rural areas outside the major cities. -- Pairing together first-time angel investors with experienced investors and other professionals to make their first investment as a group The superpower of Capital Gravity is in the integration of founders, funders and fund managers. Over time, a region that operates an annual Capital Gravity program, can not only grow a strong pipeline of new startups investors, but by integrating an effort to develop prospective fund managers, it also unlocks the ability for graduates to creates and grows other funds in the region.