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Springdale | Austin Business Journal: “Venture capital hasn’t been this high in Austin since 2000. Is that a good thing?”

by [albert](/content/author/albert/ "Posts by albert"/index.html) | Aug 26, 2020 | Read

Austin is hurtling toward achieving the second-highest one-year total of venture capital invested in startups since PwC and CB Insights began tracking those statistics in 1995. As of Nov. 26, more than $1.5 billion in VC had been invested in Central Texas startups. No...

Springdale | Austin Business Journal: “Mike’s Take: CPG challenging tech as Austin’s darling sector”

by [albert](/content/author/albert/ "Posts by albert"/index.html) | Aug 26, 2020 | Read

The tech sector is so prevalent among startups, this section has become a staple of the newspaper. If there was startup news, it was almost certainly tech news and fit nicely within the pages of the TechFlash section. But a funny thing happened on the way to 2020 —...

Springdale | Thrive Global: “Female Disruptors: Genevieve Gilbreath is shaking up how to run early stage accelerators”

by [albert](/content/author/albert/ "Posts by albert"/index.html) | Aug 26, 2020 | Read

“The first important piece of advice I’ve received is from my Grandmother who told me, “You create your own happiness, you have to wake up every day and tell yourself that this is going to be a good day and fight to make it so.” The second best piece of advice I’ve...

Springdale | Austin Business Journal: “Dan Graham, Genevieve Gilbreath start Springdale Ventures to invest in CPG “

by [albert](/content/author/albert/ "Posts by albert"/index.html) | Aug 26, 2020 | Read

“I believe early-stage [consumer packaged goods] companies are the next wave of explosive growth in Austin,” said Graham, co-founder and former CEO of BuildASign.com who now heads investment firm Notley Ventures. “Our team at Springdale Ventures is uniquely poised to...

Springdale | Austin Business Journal: “Effort launches to help Austin entrepreneurs go natural; Dan Graham & Clayton Christopher on board”

by [albert](/content/author/albert/ "Posts by albert"/index.html) | Aug 26, 2020 | Read

“We felt there was something missing in Austin for people who don’t get into SKU,” said Genevieve Gilbreath, former managing director of CPG accelerator SKU. Gilbreath left the SKU in late 2018 and is now board president of Naturally Austin. Read more

Springdale | Austin Business Journal: “Springdale Ventures raising millions more dollars for CPG investments”

by [albert](/content/author/albert/ "Posts by albert"/index.html) | Aug 26, 2020 | Read

Springdale Ventures, the consumer packaged goods venture capital firm that Dan Graham and Genevieve Gilbreath launched in February, is boosting the size of its first fund to $25 million, up from $20 million. The partners said it took only six months to reach nearly...