Components of a Startup Ecosystem

Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

A startup ecosystem is a network of startups, investors, and others who come together to foster startup formation and growth.

It is fueled by talent, funding, and customers.

In building your startup community, tap successful serial entrepreneurs to lead.

Use their star power to capture attention and draw investors and startups to your area.

Focus your efforts on the strengths of the local community and build startups in those domains.

Develop clusters of startup activity to create density as it’s the interactions between the startups, investors and providers that count.

Foster collaboration with other startup ecosystems to share resources.

Generate publicity for your ecosystem through events and articles.

Metric your results by capturing the number of startups formed, funded, and exited.

Building a robust startup ecosystem takes a decade, but the results will last many more years.   


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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Joe Tonnos, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Ketch Ventures.

Headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, Ketch Ventures partners with early-stage entrepreneurs and management teams to add value and grow businesses to the next level. Ketch focuses on emerging consumer-facing businesses that have established a foundation, are differentiated, and/or solve a problem and engage with customers and followers. 

While they will consider all kinds of investments, Ketch Ventures primarily invests in post-revenue seed and pre-series capital raises, with a quality over quantity approach. They focus on ambitious and authentic companies that are already proving out a thesis.

Joe has over ten years of experience investing in and advising companies across a number of different sectors. He previously worked at Mistral Equity Partners, a consumer and retail-focused investment platform including growth equity and middle-market buyouts. While at Mistral, Joe was also a Senior Vice President of three consumer-focused SPACs under the Haymaker Acquisition Corp. banner. He also worked in consumer and retail investment banking at Lazard and Bank of America Merrill Lynch and started his career as a foreign exchange trader at CIBC Capital Markets. In addition to Ketch Ventures, Joe also serves as a Principal and Associate Portfolio Manager at Meteora Capital and a Venture Partner at Natureza Growth Partners.

Joe details his background before investing in early-stage companies, and shares what excites him now in the consumer industry. He explains some of the challenges startups and investors face and discusses his investment thesis.

You can visit Ketch Ventures at www.ketchventures.com, and via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/ketch-ventures. 

Joe can be contacted via email at jt@ketchventures.com, and via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/joetonnos/.

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