In order to create and sustain a vibrant start-up community in Region 2 and across Virginia, access to risk capital to support research, development, and commercialization of innovative technologies is necessary.  With funding from the GO Virginia Region 2 Council and match partners from within the region, Valleys Innovation Council began a regional capital ecosystem development project in 2018.

As part of this project, VIC created a regional capital landscape study and accompanying interactive data dashboards to examine the availability of, ease of access to, and recent historic activity levels of funding within GO Virginia Region 2. The original report and dashboards are available below.

Capital Ecosystem Landscape Report

Please click for VIC’s landscape report on Region 2’s capital ecosystem.

Capital Ecosystem Dashboard

Please click to explore our interactive data dashboards on risk capital in Region 2.

Survey Instrument
and Data

Please click to view our survey instrument with aggregated data.

Capital Ecosystem Development work has continued through the Access to Capital Committee, which launched in 2019.   Click here to learn more about the work of this committee and its composition.

Southeastern Angel Investing Groups

Coming soon: resource listing of Federal Grants available!