Back to Newsletter By Scott Meacham ACT Tulsa is very intentional about creating an on-ramp to trust with founders who are Black and Brown. ACT Tulsa, the six-month cohort-driven accelerator program aimed at cultivating underestimated founders located in Tulsa and beyond, is up and running with its inaugural cohort of nine startup companies. The 17Read more
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By Scott Meacham In entrepreneurship and venture investing, “what if” is the cornerstone of our industry. Entrepreneurship is built on promise and possibility—the willingness to imagine the unimaginable and take the risks to make it real. We all engage in the “what if” game. Oklahoma bought into “what if” in the late 1980s with theRead more
By Scott Meacham Since its creation in the late 1990s, i2E has had an exponential impact upon the state’s startup economy. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This philosophical trope has been used from ancient times on down as a frame to debate cause and effect. In high tech entrepreneurship and venture capital,Read more
By Scott Meacham “Patient” capital is critical to success of Oklahoma startups. One of the most challenging aspects of entrepreneurship and venture investing is that it can take a long time to know for certain that something works. Getting people outside the industry to understand and endure the timeline has always been a challenge, neverRead more
Back to Newsletter By Scott Meacham Oklahoma-founded Alkami Technology proves that financial unicorns are not a myth. i2E and Oklahoma scored another first in innovation and entrepreneurship in April when Alkami Technology, our state’s and our firm’s first “unicorn” debuted on the Nasdaq (ALKT). In venture capital parlance, “unicorn” describes a privately held startup companyRead more
