Our Vision

Thunderbolt Ventures accelerates the growth of innovative early stage businesses and ideas into venture ready companies through providing a continuum of resources to entrepreneurs and the community.

Thunderbolt Ventures Inclusion Strategy

Minority and women owned businesses must play an increasingly more integral role in regional and national economic development efforts if desired outcomes such as global competitiveness, employment growth, income equality and wealth creation are to be realized. Thunderbolt Ventures’s commitment to this emerging market will be evidenced in part by the fact that 5 of its initial 20 investments, or 25 percent, will consist of minority and women owned businesses. Moreover, Thunderbolt Ventures will also dedicate hours of technical assistance to this growing business segment. Thunderbolt Ventures will build on these successes going forward and pursue a comprehensive strategy around economic inclusion which broadly aims to achieve the following:

Facilitate opportunities to network and further connect minority and women entrepreneurs with available resources.

Enhance minority and female representation among all stakeholders of entrepreneurship including entrepreneurs, executives/managers, investors and venture funds, subject matter experts, directors/advisors, and service providers

Celebrate successes and showcase high potential and venture-backed minority and women owned businesses Partner with local, regional, and national organizations with similar missions

In addition to capturing immediate opportunities from the above referenced initiatives, Thunderbolt Ventures will pursue a concurrent strategy aimed at developing and nurturing a pipeline of stakeholders for growth and sustainability.