Our Mission
Place Matters.
We believe that place matters. People who have chosen to prioritize where they call home are optimizing their life with intentionality. This intentionality translates into how they build their companies and communities around them, and those are the founders that we want to partner with. We’ve been supporting the best founders in the best places since 2018.
The right place, at the right time.
The face of entrepreneurship has changed - for the first time in generations people are choosing to live in rural communities. Innovation, opportunity is everywhere, but capital is not.
We believe that entrepreneurship is what drives our communities, our state, and our country forward. Innovation and the pursuit of opportunity created America while access to it has become incredibly concentrated. We’re on a mission to bring the American Dream back into reach for people not living in urban centers.
Access to capital and opportunities for founders in rural America is hard.
Colorado as a whole:
As of the 2022 census 5.8 million people call Colorado home.
Over 1.1 million of these people live in a county of 170K people or less.
20% of Colorado’s population lives in a rural county.
There are 64 counties in Colorado. 54 of these are rural.
Access to capital and opportunity is not evenly distributed:
There were 137,000 new business filings in Colorado in 2022.
Nearly 6% of these new businesses were in rural Colorado.
$6.8B of VC money was invested into Colorado companies in 2022.
Roughly $70M, or 1%, was invested into rural Colorado companies.
Collaborating to see the big picture.
Our team, investors, advisors, and partners are working to meet the needs of the growing population who calls rural Colorado home. We bring world class expertise and resources to founders in every corner of our state who are creating opportunity and innovation in their community.
Let’s work together.
We strive to maintain a fast, efficient, and professional process with founders based in rural Colorado.
Ready to dive in?
To work with us, send proforma and investment deck to partners@greatercolorado.vc, or complete our interest form.