"Investing In Outliers"

Not being ready when opportunity strikes could be a VC investor’s greatest risk.

With this belief, some savvy venture capital investors have headed to New Mexico, an underserved venture capital market where Forbes this year gave Albuquerque (#1) and Las Cruces (#2) top rankings in their size class as Best Places for Business and Careers. VC activity in New Mexico has increased recently as many investors have seen the potential opportunities that come with annual federal R & D expenditures of more than $5 billion dollars and the rapid rise in the number of subcontractor companies headed by experienced entrepreneurs. Subcontractor companies, “outside the fences” of federal laboratories, are a rich resource of deal ingredients such as capability for innovation, R&D institutional spinouts and successful serial entrepreneurs. With a strategy of investing in outliers (“fishing where e veryone else isn’t”), VCs in New Mexico have already begun to turn these ingredients into successful investments.

Speaker:

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Trevor Loy

Managing Partner

Flywheel Ventures

Santa Fe, NM

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