Author: Fernando Gonzalez
Publisher: Knight Foundation
Date: August 5, 2015
Call it a sign of the times for South Florida, but an event titled “How to Fund a Startup” had a full house of hackers, entrepreneurs and investors in Miami Beach, on a Wednesday evening.
Organized by LatAm Tech Miami under the auspices of eMerge Americas, the gathering at the newly opened WeWork space featured a panel with John Milciunas, entrepreneur-in-residence at the San Francisco-based Accelerator Ventures; Nico Berardi, managing director of Accelerated Growth Partners;and Ed Boland, a principal at Scout Ventures. Derrick Ashong, a musician and CEO of amp.it, a social network and music site, moderated the discussion.
LatAm Tech is an organization based in New York, San Francisco and now in Miami, whose goal is to connect the technological ecosystems in those cities and Latin America. The discussion included both big-picture themes and practical, specific issues. Knight Foundation has made more than 100 investments over the past three years to support the developing entrepreneurial ecosystem in South Florida. Read more here.
