Vicinity Views
News, education and insights on investing in public offerings through the Vicinity platform and private early-stage offerings with VentureSouth.
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Transparency Builds Trust
Transparency. Our final core belief is “transparency builds trust”. Among private equity partners, this is often encapsulated in phrases like “no surprises” or “give…
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5 Reasons To Invest In Your Community
The first time I asked my wife out was at a coffee shop on a corner street. It was a significant moment for us,…
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The Wall Street – Main Street Disconnect
The Dow Jones surged over 20% between March 23 and March 26 with the financial markets betting on the imminent (and unprecedented) stimulus package.…
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Explaining the Form C
What is it? The Form C is the required SEC filing for any company looking to raise capital through Regulation CF. It needs to…
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Leading in Trust, Underdog in Finance
“Now I am going to read you a list of institutions in American society. Please tell me how much confidence you, yourself, have in…
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On Local Stimulus and You
Main Street is reeling and the pressure on small and medium-sized businesses (“SMBs”) is not going to let up anytime soon. One study has…
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Investing Through Reg CF
Just recently, over 95% of the population gained a new way to invest in the small and mid-sized businesses that make up over half…
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What is an accredited investor?
If you have ever considered making investments outside of public markets (like stocks and bonds) in alternative investments (like private equity, real estate, startups),…
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VentureSouth Reports Major Milestones For 2022
VentureSouth is pleased to report its results from a momentous year in 2022. As one of the nation’s leading early-stage investment organizations, the firm…
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SC AITC 2021 Users
As we celebrate South Carolina angel investing tax credit transfer season (among other things), we found this report on the SC Dept of Revenue’s…
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VentureSouth Announces New Leadership for Atlanta Group
VentureSouth, one of the largest angel investment groups in the United States, is announcing new leadership for its Atlanta group. Matthew May and Kenji…
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VentureSouth Announces New Leadership for Midlands Group
VentureSouth, one of the United States’ largest angel investment groups, is excited to announce new leadership for its Midlands group, which serves investors in…
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A convertible note learning lesson
From our earlier blog post on convertible notes, you can probably tell that we are not big fans of them, though we concede that…
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VentureSouth Launching in Chattanooga
VentureSouth, one of the largest angel investment groups in the United States, is announcing its newest market expansion, VentureSouth Chattanooga. Chattanooga, TN will become…
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Three Angel Investing Flywheels
If you have followed Matt’s writings about angel investing, you’ll know he has been a fan of the “flywheel” metaphor for angel investing and…
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Amazing Entrepreneurs on the South Carolina Business Review
To celebrate one of our favorite entrepreneurs – Gabby of Confidence – appearing recently on the South Carolina Business Review (episode link here), here…
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VentureSouth Invests Over $2.7M in Early-Stage Companies in the Southeast in the First Quarter
VentureSouth, one of the largest angel investment groups in the United States, is excited to announce another quarter of significant investment activity in startup…
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PSA – Employee Retention Tax Credit – Recovery Startup Businesses
Attention anyone who started a business in the last two years! If you were fun enough to launch a new business during the pandemic,…
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VentureSouth Leads Investment in Gradient Health
VentureSouth is pleased to announce that it has led the $2.5M seed round financing of Gradient Health, a Durham, NC-based Health AI technology platform.…