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Chicago’s Business Leaders Collaborate to Create, Invest and Manage the $10 Million Illinois Innovation Accelerator (i2A) Fund

February 27, 2007 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Today, the Illinois Innovation Accelerator (i2A) Fund, a $10 million seed-stage, for-profit investment fund, was launched with $6.4 million in capital commitment in its first closing. Seed-stage investing has decreased since the start of the new millennium as investors have moved "up-market," leaving a "capital gap" in their wake. The i2A steps up to the plate as the state’s most innovative for-profit, early-stage investment fund.

Full Story: http://www.vcaonline.com/news/news.asp?ID=2007022606

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