Jamie Finney Email & Phone Number

I invest in 1) rural Colorado startups and 2) employee ownership transitions. Getting here has exposed me to tons of models for capital entrepreneurship. I write a newsletter to share my learnings and partner with other GPs to help them realize their version of a better future.I cofounded GCVF in 2017 to unlock venture capital for founders overlooked in small towns. Fund I was $17.5M and invested in 29 startups, and we're now investing out of a $27M Fund II.GCVF has had to write its own playbook for communities and capital. I have led many of these efforts within the firm: - Got vans and campers to spend 100s of nights in small towns all over the state. - Created a statewide pitch event which has catalyzed millions in investment into rural CO companies. - - Helped author the rural chapter of Startup Communities by Brad Feld. - Founded a conference for capital innovators in 2018, since adopted by the Kauffman Fdtn. - Introduced non-traditional term sheets to ensure we could partner with the best rural CO founders- Contributed to Adventure Finance, by Aunnie Patton Powers, and the Innovative Finance PlaybookThis work uncovered countless opportunities for capital innovation. To address these, for Fund II, I am focused solely on investing and fund strategy, making time to explore these. This only works because my partners Marc and Cory are generous and heroic in their work.I document what I learn as an author of the Innovative Finance Newsletter (https://blog.innovative.finance/). This started as a list created for the Innovative Finance Playbook, the best catalog of new capital pathways, case studies, and tools out there, and is being rolled into the Innovative Finance Initiative, a larger effort to unlock capital innovation.Most recently, I found a great team to address a massive opportunity of our time - Silver Tsunami, meet Employee Ownership. As a part of the mighty Small Capital team, I lead the finance side of what we think is the best model to unlock employee ownership at scale. One day, we will be enabling EO transitions in your backyard.Finally, I constantly discover other entrepreneurial GPs. They're experts in their own communities/industries/realities and see an opportunity to invest in change. I try to accelerate their efforts however I can. This has led to short term consulting roles, long term Venture Partner roles, and everything in between. Reach out if you've somehow made it this far into my bio and care to chat about what that may look like for you.

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