Tag: venture capital
Kamala Harris is winning the popularity contest, by a hair.

Jim RosicaJanuary 19, 2016
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Weatherford Partners, the venture capital group created by former Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford and his two brothers, on Tuesday announced their first public deal, contributing to a $4.5 million funding round for a Missouri company. Weatherford’s firm invested in the Kansas City-based PayIt, which produces mobile apps for governments so people can pay for […]

Melissa RossJanuary 15, 2016
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In Jacksonville, Peter Rummell giveth, and Peter Rummell taketh away. That was a lesson very publicly learned by former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown. Now, ousted One Spark founder Elton Rivas is the latest to get his walking papers after the powerful money man behind the popular (but financially struggling) crowdfunding festival decided the spark was […]


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