Investing in local companies key to long-term growth

I recently had the privilege of leading the inaugural pitch session held by the Missoula Economic Partnership Angel Network http://www.missoulaworks.org/index.php?page=angel-investor-network . Four remarkably innovative and interesting entrepreneurs stood up and pitched their companies, ideas and, in many ways, themselves to a room full of local private investors. Their goal? To secure hundreds of thousands of dollars in private angel investor capital.

The Angel Network is a group of private investors assembled by the Missoula Economic Partnership http://www.missoulaworks.org/ . The network’s express goal is to assist fledgling, local companies with their single greatest need: capital. In return, investors receive some type of equity stake in the companies’ future.

James Grunke

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