{"id":374,"date":"2007-03-08T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/03\/08\/illinois-innovation-accelerator-fund-i%c2%b2a-launched\/"},"modified":"2013-07-19T21:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T02:51:48","slug":"illinois-innovation-accelerator-fund-i%c2%b2a-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/03\/08\/illinois-innovation-accelerator-fund-i%c2%b2a-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Innovation Accelerator Fund (i\u00b2A) Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has arrived! The Illinois Innovation Accelerator (i2A) Fund, a $10 million seed-stage investment fund with an initial closing of $6.4 million in capital commitments.\u00a0The i2A Fund is a member managed fund that will be administered by the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center.\u00a0 The fund will make investments in well managed seed-stage companies in Illinois or willing to relocate to Illinois that have a demonstrated value proposition in a given market for their products or services.\u00a0\u00a0The fund will make investments ranging from $250,000 to $1 million in each company.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s the first of many! There are many fine upstart companies here in Chicago starving for capital. I know David Weinstein and his crew worked hard on this and I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s a great success. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has arrived! The Illinois Innovation Accelerator (i2A) Fund, a $10 million seed-stage investment fund with an initial closing of $6.4 million in capital commitments.\u00a0The i2A Fund is a member managed fund that will be administered by the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center.\u00a0 The fund will make investments in well managed seed-stage companies in Illinois or willing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}