Seattle venture-capital firm StageDotO is moving to Boise. This is why, and how it plans to invest

Currently, there isn’t a venture fund in Boise, so StageDotO plans to fill that gap, Self said. The company has spent the past year or so visiting once a month and decided three months ago to set up the fund.

“This is a 20- to 25-year play,” he said. “We wanted to show the community we were serious.”