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Since 2006, FSI has been helping expand Delaware’s Innovation Economy by attracting, retaining, and growing high growth technology-driven businesses and supporting organizations in the State by connecting people, ideas, and capital.
What We Have Accomplished ...
• Created an extensive “Friends of FSI” database to inform, connect, and enhance the regional entrepreneurial community
• Sponsored the original legislation that eventually led to the recent passage of House Bill 170, the Angel Investor Job Creation Act
• Spearheaded the formation of Leading Edge Ventures, a $10 million early-stage venture fund
• Recently, FSI founded the Entrepreneur Roundtable, a forum where entrepreneurs meet to share ideas that improve one another’s ventures and also grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
It also supported the development of a digital platform that connects stakeholders in the Delaware entrepreneurial community and provided direct support for the Open Bracket Delaware Initiative
Where We Are Going ...
• Serve as a resource for entrepreneurs, startups,
and emerging technology companies in Delaware
... providing connections and support from venture formation to commercialization to funding and beyond
• Continue to map and facilitate and map the entrepreneurial ecosystem in and around Delaware
• Serve as a “Voice of Delaware” within the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem spanning Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and eastern Maryland
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