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iMCI leads $750,000 investment in OKC-based PrivacyBrain

By sarah | Capital, Entrepreneurs, i2E, iMCI, Investment, News, OCAST, Oklahoma Startups, SeedStep Angels | Comments are Closed | 20 March, 2021 | 3

Back to Newsletter March 17, 2021 Contact: Sarah Seagraves, Senior VP for Marketing sseagraves@i2E.org OKLAHOMA CITY — i2E Management Co., Inc., (iMCI) recently led a $750,000 seed-round investment in Oklahoma City-based PrivacyBrain. PrivacyBrain is a cybersecurity platform that removes sensitive personal identifying information from data broker sites on the Internet. The investment included $375,000 fromRead more

i2E Primary Source of Investment Capital

By sarah | Capital, Entrepreneurs, Investment, Uncategorized | 0 comment | 21 January, 2021 | 3

Return to Newsletter With more than $90 million of investment capital currently under management, i2E has been a primary source of concept, seed stage, start-up and early growth investment capital for Oklahoma’s emerging small businesses for two decades. Our rigorous investment process has a reputation for producing companies that are well positioned for success in the marketplace. Read more

Banner Year for Oklahoma Startups with $29.3M in Funding

By sarah | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 15 July, 2020 | 2

i2E, Inc. had a record-breaking number of investments in FY2020 with $12.89M in closed investments across its 4 venture funds and concept fund. In total, 19 Oklahoma companies received financing and attracted an additional $16.34M from private investors, for a total of $29.3M invested in Oklahoma-based companies. i2E Management Company Inc. (iMCI ), i2E’s investmentRead more

State-funded program managed by i2E boosts Oklahoma innovation

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 9 February, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham My mantra of investing, as any regular reader of this column knows, is capital begets capital. That’s why Oklahoma’s unique, pre-seed capital fund, Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP), is so critical to Oklahoma’s innovation economy. TBFP deploys state funding to provide equity-free capital for startups at such an early stage that thereRead more

‘Visionary’ funding program boosts Oklahoma startups

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 15 December, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham This time of year, Christmas music is everywhere. Some people get a little tired of it, but for me it’s all part of the season, and I like it. Christmas music reminds me of family, friends, and memories of Christmas mornings and meals. The other day, I was on an errand, andRead more

Author-entrepreneur says i2E offers ‘founder-friendly’ financing through state-funded program

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 24 November, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Recently, when Elliott Adams, author of The Startup Mixtape: The Guide to Building and Launching a High-Growth Technology Startup signed up for i2E’s Venture Assessment Program (VAP), it was a great opportunity for us to gain perspective from an industry pro. Elliott’s book is based on his broad experience in entrepreneurship. HeRead more

Entrepreneurship fuels the state’s economy

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 29 August, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman This summer, I’ve been writing about lessons learned since coming to i2E nearly six years ago — specifically lessons about technology entrepreneurship in our state. It seems fitting as we head toward Labor Day, that I wind up this summer series with a recap of my heartfeltRead more

Speed is critical for many successful entrepreneurs

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 24 July, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman I have learned over the past six years that the single most important advice I can give an entrepreneur is this: Never underestimate the importance of going fast. Once you stick your head up, the world is going to respond. Some people will buy into your idea.Read more

Continued investment needed for economic growth

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 25 June, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman In today’s world, a state’s economic growth demands investment in innovation and high-tech industries — especially for a natural resource-rich state like ours that must leverage our existing resource base to diversify our economy for the future. It’s a straightforward proposition. If we believe that more andRead more

Funding available in Oklahoma for each step of development

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 19 March, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman I always tell every new company that I talk to: You have to crawl before you walk and walk before you run. The same thing applies to the capital path. The great thing for startups in this state is that The Oklahoma Innovation Model, which is uniqueRead more

No trade-off with innovation and capital

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 7 March, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman In the business of creating new high-growth companies, “trade-off” is the name of the game. From idea to IPO, from survival mode to success, entrepreneurship calls for constant prioritizing and re-prioritizing. With limited capital — financial and human — for the first few years of a startup’sRead more

Seed capital primes pump for successful projects

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 22 February, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman As Oklahomans, we live with pumps. We draw most of our water from out of the ground; we’re used to seeing pumpjacks bobbing their grasshopper-shaped heads all over the state. So, when somebody says “prime the pump” we understand the metaphor in a very real-world way. “PrimeRead more

Oklahoma’s economy is growing more diverse

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 18 January, 2017 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Company As a fourth-generation attorney, I can’t help my evidentiary mindset. I want the facts to tell the story; I look to the data to prove the case. That’s why I feel like titling my next series of columns “Just How Much Proof Does Oklahoma Need?”Read more

Si66: i2E and the Diversification of the Oklahoma Economy

By admin | News | Comments are Closed | 19 September, 2016 | 0

i2E was born from an Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) initiative and has now become a nationally-recognized private not-for-profit corporation that invests in entrepreneurs who are building high-growth companies in Oklahoma. i2E works directly with entrepreneurs, researchers and companies to help them commercialize their technologies, launch and grow new businesses and access needed capital.

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