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CINCINNATI–More than 100 entrepreneurs, angel investors, mentors, and business experts from across the region will assemble in Cincinnati to support founders at the 25^th Annual QCA Ventures’ Entrepreneur Boot Camp, June 10-11, 2025.

Our subject matter experts will teach you just about everything you need to know to get your business concept from napkin stage to MVP and beyond. Session titles include:

• Do You REALLY Have a Product?
• Business Model Innovation
• Leveraging Intellectual Property
• Systematic Inventive Thinking
• Growth Hacking: Marketing Your Startup
• Social Media for startups
• Your Legal Infrastructure
• Financing Your Venture: How start-up financing works
• Financial Statements for Managers & Investors
• Building the Internal and External Teams
• View from the Heavens: What Investors Look For

In addition to a full agenda of educational sessions and panel discussions, entrepreneurs and start-up founders will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one (in most cases one-on-three) with local angel investors and business experts for advice and mentoring about your business concept.

LOCATION
Alloy Growth Labs
1776 Mentor Avenue Room 129
Norwood, OH 45212

Meet and ask questions of headliner entrepreneurs: Serial entrepreneur and QCA member Ravi Manchala of Smart Data Systems, Chris Bergman Founder of FamilyTech (Choremonster)/Gylee Games at QCA’s 25^th Annual Entrepreneur Boot Camp.

Register for the QCA 25^th Annual Entrepreneur Boot Camp

About QCA Education Foundation

QCA Education Foundation (dba Startup College®) was founded by QCA Ventures’ (QCA) as a resource to improve entrepreneurial success and angel investment decision making, promote angel investment as an alternative asset class, and leverage its more than 210 members from 22 states to drive current portfolio companies to faster and more successful exits. The QCA Education Foundation supports the QCA mission: to generate superior stakeholder returns by providing capital and active counsel to high-potential entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are offered educational programs and support, through its 2-day Entrepreneur Boot Camp (800 founders participating in 24 years) and an entrepreneurial support program (QCA Morning Mentoring^TM has mentored 1500 founders over 19 years). QCA promotes angel investing smart practices through its support of the ACA’s (Angel Capital Association) Angel Investor Foundation and the ACA’s Angel University, as well as providing ongoing training for its members. QCA members provide an average of 50,000 hours per year pro-bono supporting founders. Since 2000, QCA members have directly invested over $120 million in more than 115 portfolio companies. The total capital invested in these companies, including QCA members’ capital, syndication partners’ capital, follow-on venture capital funds and venture debt is nearly $1 billion.

Via the Cincinnati Business Courier

A mutual fund managed in Cincinnati that’s one of only about a dozen of its type in the country has been posting results that rank among the top in the nation.

The 1919 Socially Responsive Balanced Fund has been cranking out results in the top 20% of its peers around the country.

Ron Bates, managing director and portfolio manager at 1919 Investment Counsel’s downtown office and QCA Member, is lead portfolio manager of the fund and has locally based analysts tracking how responsible companies are. That’s in addition to how well they perform based on more traditional measures.

Bates is a veteran of the responsible investing world. He has managed the 1919 Socially Responsive Balanced Fund for nearly two decades, dating back to January 2007. And he has focused on responsible investing for 30 years.

>>Learn more about the Bates’s work with the 1919 Socially Responsive Balanced Fund via the Cincinnati Business Courier article here. 

The Angel Capital Association proudly announced Marcia Dawood as the recipient of the 2025 Hans Severiens Award, the organization’s highest honor recognizing individuals whose leadership advances the field of angel investing.

Dawood’s journey began in 2012 when she was invited to an angel investing meeting — without even knowing what the term meant. It was a moment that sparked a mission. Realizing how few people understood they could invest in early-stage companies—and be the change they want to see in the world—she dove in. Since then, she’s become a very visible advocate for democratizing angel investing.

Over the past decade, Dawood has opened doors for hundreds of new investors—especially women and underrepresented communities—to participate in backing companies solving meaningful problems. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the SEC’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee, ensuring early-stage investors have a seat at the federal policy table. She is also Chair Emeritus of the ACA.

“We are thrilled to see Marcia receive the highest honor given to Angel Investors for her tireless dedication to demystifying, elevating, and expanding Angel investing. She’s a purpose-driven visionary leader, multi-award winning author, and Podcaster who has created tremendous positive impact in our entrepreneurial ecosystem,” said Sue Bevan Baggott, Founder & President, Power Within Consulting.

When Marcia Dawood attended her first Angel Capital Association (ACA) summit as a board member, she noticed something unusual: a line at the men’s restroom, while the women’s was empty. It was a small but telling sign of a bigger problem—women were significantly underrepresented in angel investing, both as funders and founders which led her to the creation of Growing Women’s Capital Syndication Group, showcasing founders and funders for more than six years.

“Marcia is the most deserving awardee of a prestigious angel investing award. She has demystified, democratized and expanded the angel investing asset class especially for under estimated communities and aspiring investors. As a leader, she champions others with her actions, her podcast platform and her genuine heart for servant leadership,” said Dr. Silvia Mah, Founder, Stella Foundation, Board Member ACA.

A venture partner with Mindshift Capital and a long-time member of Golden Seeds, Dawood has invested in over 50 startups and funds, with a particular focus on women-led, mission-driven ventures. One example she often points to is Joylux, a company tackling women’s sexual health with grit, innovation and purpose. “The founder is scrappy, resilient and fearless about tackling a real, underserved issue,” Dawood said.

Through her podcast The Angel Next Door—which launched in 2021 and has now surpassed 120 episodes—Dawood has worked to make angel investing more accessible and less intimidating. Her TEDxCharlotte talk, Do Good While Doing Well, delivered in 2022, laid the foundation for her book of the same name, released in September 2024. The book has since won six awards including Best Audiobook. She is also an associate producer of the documentary Show Her The Money. Across all platforms, her message is clear: you don’t need to be ultra-wealthy or a finance expert to become an angel investor.

Across all platforms, her message is clear: you don’t need to be ultra-wealthy or a finance expert to become an angel investor.

“People don’t know they can participate and that lack of awareness creates gaps in who gets funded,” Dawood said. “I’m working to change that.”

Despite headwinds in the current exit market, Dawood remains optimistic. “Now is actually one of the best times to invest,” she noted. “Only the strongest companies are raising, and those are the ones that will thrive.”

The Hans Severiens Award, named in honor of one of the ACA’s founding members, celebrates individuals who advance angel investing through innovation, collaboration, mentorship and impact. Marcia Dawood now joins a distinguished group of recipients who have helped shape the future of early-stage investing.

Acquisition solidifies Groupize offering as a true all-in-one for the $1T business meetings and events industry, adding solutions for venues and vendors to their platform for planners and enterprises to manage meetings, event logistics, group and guest travel, and HCP Engagements.

Addition of venues and vendors to existing solutions for group hotel, air, and spend management, will drive efficiency, visibility, savings, and controls for organizations of all sizes.

Boston, MA – July 17, 2024   Groupize, a leading provider of meetings and events technology, today announced the acquisition of The Vendry, one of the biggest event marketplaces in America.  This acquisition enhances Groupize’s extensive offerings, adding more than 70,000 venues and vendors to its existing booking engine of 190,000 hotels globally. 

The Vendry is utilized by over 150,000 event planners each month, making it one of the most popular venue-sourcing platforms for corporate event planners and a source of highly qualified traffic to supplier partners.  The marketplace will be known as The Vendry by Groupize.

The integration of The Vendry into Groupize will happen by the end of the year.  Groupize customers will benefit from the ability to shop for unique venues for off-sites, day meetings, dining events, cocktail parties, and more from within the same solution that they manage group hotel bookings, attendee management, and travel logistics.

The entire meeting and event ecosystem, including third parties, will benefit from:

Global Venue and Hotel Supplier Content: The Vendry will enhance Groupize’s offerings with a diverse inventory of venues and vendors, and these suppliers will benefit from the combined volume of Groupize enterprise customers.

AI-Powered Response: The Vendry’s intelligent use of AI for venue information acquisition and venue response with Concierge services delivers fast responses and efficiencies, delivering the most updated platform with “What is New, What is Hot and What is trending” with daily content updates.

Streamlined Meeting Management: Groupize empowers the entire vendor sourcing process, from searching suppliers and generating bids to quote management. It also supports managing the entire lifecycle of a meeting by including features like room block management, instant hotel booking, registration, group and guest travel, ticketing, event app, and expense management, all within a centralized workspace.

 “Over the past several months as we’ve gotten to know the Groupize team, I’ve consistently walked away from our conversations believing that I finally found a company that felt just as passionate as our team about supporting corporate meeting & event planners with better technology to help them bring people together. We’re thrilled to be taking this important step forward with them in an effort to bring our shared platforms and visions together to create the best event and travel technology platform in the world,” said Daphne Hoppenot, Founder of The Vendry. Hoppenot will join the Groupize Executive Team as a Strategic Advisor.

Groupize CEO Alisa de Gaspe Beaubien added, “Daphne and her team have been on a mission to build the world’s best venue and vendor sourcing solution and we believe they succeeded.  We’re excited to bring this innovative technology into the Groupize platform, accelerating our mission to transform the way meetings and events are managed. This acquisition accelerates our timelines on delivering a global solution to plan and manage exceptional meeting and event experiences.”   

de Gaspe Beaubien further added, “All of our enterprise customers, particularly those in industries like Life Sciences has a very high volume of gatherings in non-hotel venues and will benefit from staying within the Groupize platform to manage all of their venue needs”.

About Groupize

Groupize is the leading platform for managing in-person enterprise events.  With solutions for venues, vendors, event organizers, and enterprises, Groupize transforms the complex and challenging processes of organizing and managing meetings into a seamless and accessible experience for everyone.  The Groupize platform has 9 modules and over 275 configurable features to manage meetings, events and group travel, leveraging exclusive integrations with industry leading solutions like SAP Concur.   Our mission is empower everyone to create seamless and impactful meetings and events through innovative and intuitive solutions that build trust and foster connection.

About The Vendry

The Vendry is one of the biggest event marketplaces in America, connecting over 150,000 planners each month with over 73,000 event venues and vendors that are listed on its platform. Beyond providing planners with an incredible event sourcing experience, The Vendry also runs one of the largest professional communities for corporate event professionals. Thousands of planners and hundreds of event attendees engage in the Company’s online discussion forums every day.

Las Vegas, NV (July 10, 2023) – QCA Ventures’ Chairman and Co-Founder Tony Shipley’s pride for the more than 190 women and men who make up their membership as well as the coaching and mentoring they provide to entrepreneurs, is evident. In fact, winning the Hans Severiens Award at the 2023 ACA Summit of Angel Investing is a validation of his profound efforts to grow and support angel investing nationally through the Angel Capital Association as well as the community in which he works.

The Hans Severiens Award recognizes personal impact on the advancement of angel investing globally and highlights the special relationship that angels and entrepreneurs build to innovate, create jobs, and drive the economy. The ACA honored Shipley for his many contributions to this community at the 2023 ACA Summit of Angel Investing.

Since 2000, Shipley has led the QCA Ventures group (based in Cincinnati, OH), served as a board member for the ACA including a term as Chairman of the Board and worked tirelessly for the founding of the Angel Investor Foundation and chaired its capital campaign.

Given all his experience, there are still investments and stories that stand out in a storied career. As an example, early in QCA’s history, the group discovered a technology developed at a children’s hospital that could potentially be used to quickly prescribe the correct medication for people suffering from mental illness. Prior to this technology, the process had been an “educated guess” on which drug to initially prescribe. Failing improvement, doctors would have to pivot to another drug – a tedious and time-consuming process. This new technology relied on matching a person’s DNA makeup with psychiatrist drugs best suited for that DNA.

“It required many years and millions of dollars to prove the concept, but the test, known as Genesight, has been in the market for several years and the most recent report shows that more than 2,000,000 people have undergone the test. The results are used by doctors to recommend the most appropriate drug to treat the medical condition. This technology has been especially useful in treating children who are experiencing some form of mental illness,” said Shipley.

As research has shown including that of the Angel Funders Report and the data efforts of the ACA, entrepreneurs are largely the innovation and job-creation engines for our country. Looking to the future, Shipley has his eye on how angel investing can continue to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

“My hope is that ALL entrepreneurs seeking funding for their unique idea(s) can find enough angel and early-stage investors who will not only invest in their companies but will also provide the appropriate support and mentoring typically provided by investors in our asset class. Additionally, I support the vision that ACA and AIF can work with angel and early-stage investors to better prepare them for investing in this phase of a company’s life cycle, and to help them produce better outcomes for both them and the entrepreneurs they support. Doing these things will ultimately help the USA be more competitive on the world stage,” said Shipley.

About QCA Ventures

QCA Ventures (QCA) is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based professional angel investor group with over 190 angel investor members residing in 20 states. QCA members include successful entrepreneurs, former C-suite corporate executives, R&D/technical experts in life sciences, IT, and advanced materials, and others with related backgrounds. QCA leverages its proprietary Standards + Practices Guide to educate, train, and mentor both entrepreneurs and angel investors. QCA members typically donate approximately 40,000 hours per year in pro-bono mentoring, coaching, and guidance for entrepreneurs to improve their success and the success of angel investors. Since 2000, QCA members have directly invested over $100 million in more than 110 portfolio companies. The total capital invested in these companies, including QCA members’ capital, syndication partners’ capital, follow-on venture capital funds, and venture debt is more than $875 million. CB Insights ranked QCA second out of 370 national angel organizations. For more information, visit https://www.qca.com.

About the Angel Capital Association (ACA)

The Angel Capital Association (ACA) is the professional association of global angel investors to offer education, best practices, data, public policy advocacy, and significant benefits and resources to its membership of more than 16,000 accredited investors, who invest individually or through its 250+ angel groups, accredited platforms, and family offices. Visit angelcapitalassociation.org.

Contact: Dannielle Stewart, Director of Marketing, P: 720-496-3646, dstewart@angelcapitalassociation.org.
Photos available here: https://bit.ly/TonyShipley2023.

QCA Ventures (QCA) and Griesing Mazzeo Law, LLC have partnered toexpand resources to Cincinnati’s and the region’s start-up founders and their businesses. Griesing Mazzeo Law is QCA’s first women-owned law firm partner and brings to the region experience promoting diversity and inclusivity and empowering women and minorities in business and the legal profession. Griesing Mazzeo Law is part of the National Association of Minority and Women-Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF).

“There has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur in the Greater Cincinnati Region with the depth and breadth of resources and service providers now available,” said Sue Bevan Baggott, member of QCA, and chair of QCA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. “We are extremely impressed with Griesing Mazzeo Law, and our community is better off because the firm chose to establish an office in Cincinnati. This is an important partnership for us and our portfolio companies for several reasons including the opportunity to connect our angels and our portfolio companies with the legal professionals at Griesing Mazzeo Law to capitalize on their leadership in inclusivity and diversity.”

“We are thrilled to become QCA Ventures’ first women-owned law firm partner,” said Jessica L. Mazzeo, Member and Chief Operating Officer of Griesing Mazzeo Law. “Aside from providing high-caliber legal advice and serving as advocates for our clients, many of us here at Griesing Mazzeo Law are entrepreneurs ourselves. It is with that mindset that we can fully embrace the dedication, drive and unique nuances of the start-up industry. We are looking forward to what our partnership with QCA Ventures brings, including fostering new relationships that further bolster Cincinnati’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

Scott Jacobs, Executive Director of QCA added, “QCA is becoming a regional and national player in start-up funding, so it’s important that we partner with the right service providers to help advance the efforts of our portfolio companies and their entrepreneurs. Minority and women-owned businesses receive an extremely small share of investment capital, and likewise have limited access to great legal services. Together, QCA and Griesing Mazzeo Law are working to change that.” About Griesing Mazzeo Law Griesing Mazzeo Law, LLC is a full-service women-owned and operated law firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with satellite offices in Arizona, Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Ohio. We are proudly certified as a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) by WBENC, enabling us to tackle opportunities specifically intended to promote diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. Since its inception, the Firm has been committed to the promotion and advancement of women and diverse lawyers as we believe that a more inclusive legal profession is a more successful one. Griesing Mazzeo Law aims to combat the forces that keep women and minorities out of leadership roles and from staying in the profession at all, which we embody through our Firm’s culture, the long-standing relationships we’ve built and maintained with women and diverse attorneys, and our continued commitment to institutions and organizations that foster inclusivity in the legal field.

About QCA Ventures QCA Ventures (QCA) is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based professional angel investor group with 191 angel investors members residing in 20 states. QCA members include successful entrepreneurs, former C-suite corporate executives, R&D/technical experts in life sciences, IT, and advanced materials, and others with related backgrounds. QCA leverages its proprietary Standards + Practices Guide to educate, train, and mentor both entrepreneurs and angel investors. QCA members typically donate approximately 40,000 hours per year in pro-bono mentoring, coaching, and guidance for entrepreneurs to improve their success and the success of angel investors. Since 2000, QCA members have directly invested over $100 million in more than 100 portfolio companies. The total capital invested in these companies, including QCA members’ capital, syndication partners’ capital, follow-on venture capital funds and venture debt is more than $875 million. CB Insights ranked QCA second out of 370 national angel organizations. For more information, visit https://www.qca.com.

Connecting the dots is a metaphor to describe the understanding gained by a series of seemingly disconnected events that connect and lead to a specific conclusion. 

This conversation is about a unique type of dots, specifically Braille dots. Braille was invented over 200 years ago to provide a method for visually impaired people to read using combinations of six dots to represent letters and words. Books translated into Braille are available for the visually impaired.  

According to the National Federation of the Blind, fewer than 10 percent of the 1.3 million people who are legally blind in the United States are Braille readers. Further, a mere 10 percent of blind children are learning to read Braille. In addition, over 70 percent of blind adults are unemployed, and as many as 50 percent of blind high school students drop out of high school.

The information tsunami brought on by the Internet left the visually impaired with a significant problem. How can these individuals, including K-12 students, access education, be gainfully employed, and participate in the digital world?

Join us as Dave Schleppenbach discusses the journey to develop a digital Braille technology to provide the visually impaired access to the digital world, including digital content, games, graphics, and animation.

The topics addressed in this interview are:

• 00:00 Intro to Dave Schleppenbach, CEO of Tactile Engineering
• 01:40 Overview of the Tactile Engineering device for the visually impaired
• 03:06 How the Cadence device works
• 04:31 The statistics on the visually impaired population
• 05:03 The relationship between Braille and raised print
• 07:02 The market size for visual impairment
• 08:49 Mobility of the Braille device
• 09:40 Starting with deployment in local markets
• 11:55 Deciding to address blindness with technology
• 13:26 From tinkering to a robotic factory
• 14:30 The factory tour
• 18:00 Financial support product development
• 20:30 How well do adults learn to use the Cadence device?
• 22:00 Sources of funding for Tactile Engineering
• 23:00 What are the plans for the future?
• 24:07 Contact information

CINCINNATI and PITTSBURGH – October 11, 2022 – QCA Ventures (QCA) is pleased to announce the closing of an investment in C360, a Pittsburgh-based computer vision SaaS company that provides solutions to leading broadcasters and sports leagues around the world. C360’s award-winning image processing and ultra-high-quality video output is used by the leaders in sports broadcasting, including the leading sports networks, as well as the most popular sports leagues in the United States. The QCA investment will help C360 continue to expand its reach and technology to deliver direct-to-consumer OTT (over-the-top) immersive experiences for viewers everywhere. “Oftentimes when we watch sports broadcasts, it’s the small things that make the biggest difference, such as the yard-to-gain markers or the pylon cameras in football that are critical to the game and the viewer experience,” said Thomas Browning, a member of QCA. “Rarely do people know the people and companies behind these technologies that improve the viewing experience, but we are fortunate for the opportunity to play a small part in what the future holds for C360 and sports fans around the world. C360 is truly changing how we experience live sports, and while their impact is already seen and felt by millions of viewers every week, there is so much more that they will do in the months and years to come.” Among C360’s products are technologies used in game action every week in collegiate and major sports leagues, including pylon cameras in professional and college football games; CornerCam for baseball games; NetCam for professional hockey; overhead cameras in college basketball; and onboard cameras in auto racing. The company’s technology helps capture immersive media for producers; up-close, in-game experiences for viewers; and exclusive content for broadcasters and channels. Fans can also use C360-developed apps to select their own viewpoint while C360’s content streams work in augmented, virtual, and mixed reality formats. C360’s technologies are also being used by the armed forces and other aerospace defense and security organizations. “We appreciate the confidence that QCA has in C360 and our leadership to execute on our vision for the future of sports media,” said Carlos Silva, CEO of C360. “We are literally looking at every angle of sport, bringing fans and viewers closer to the action, and helping our partners deliver the type and variety of high-quality content that keeps people tuning in. QCA’s investment will help us to continue to change how people watch and engage in sports.”

About QCA Ventures

QCA Ventures (QCA) is a group of more than 180 experienced angel investors in the Cincinnati region. QCA members reside in 18 states and include successful entrepreneurs and former corporate executives. QCA investor members evaluate early-stage angel investment opportunities and provide on-going mentoring to young businesses with exceptional growth potential. QCA members typically donate the equivalent of over $5,000,000 per year in pro-bono mentoring, coaching, and guidance for entrepreneurs to improve their success and the success of angel investors. Since 2000, QCA members have directly invested over $80 million in more than 100 portfolio companies. The total capital invested in these companies, including QCA members’ capital, syndication partners’ capital, follow-on venture capital funds and venture debt, is approximately $800 million. CB Insight ranked QCA second out of 370 national angel organizations. For more information, visit www.qca.com or contact Scott Jacobs sjacobs@qca.com.

About C360

C360 has pioneered original 360 technologies that deliver the highest quality non-stitched immersive video products, live output for broadcast and OTT platforms. C360’s proprietary process and ultra-high-quality output has earned relationships with Fox Sports, CBS Sports, ESPN, NBC Sports, TNT, NASCAR, NFL, NHL, AWS Sports among many others including sports betting operators and data providers. Key investors in C360 include sports venture capital company SeventySix Capital, Cosm, QCA Ventures and BlueTree Venture Fund. Former ESPN executive Jed Drake is also a board member of C360. To learn more about C360, go to www.c360live.com.

Combined solution integrates supply chain risk event monitoring and automated due diligence with advanced item-level visibility and multi-tier supply chain mapping to reduce cost, mitigate risk, and enhance compliance for sourcing, acquisition, and procurement professionals across public and private sectors.   CINCINNATI, OHIO – August 30, 2022 – Exiger, the leading SaaS supply chain risk management, third-party risk management and compliance company, announced today that it has acquired Supply Dynamics, one of QCA Ventures’ portfolio companies and the industry’s most sophisticated supply chain collaboration platform for tracking, tracing and choreographing the purchase and supply of subcontracted products, parts, raw materials and ingredients. “The combination of Exiger and Supply Dynamics is a force multiplier, not only because we believe they are the preeminent player in this market, but because we are equally committed to investing in the capabilities necessary to set a new industry standard that allows for informed, high-level decision-making within a matter of minutes.” said Supply Dynamics Founder and CEO, Trevor Stansbury.  The integration of Supply Dynamics’ products will enable end-to-end supply chain visibility and holistic risk management via a single, secure, cloud-based enterprise platform. “We are delighted to see another of our portfolio companies experience a successful exit,” said QCA Ventures founder and chair Tony Shipley.  “We are proud to have supported Supply Dynamics as they built the company to this exciting point,” added Shipley. QCA Ventures invested in Supply Dynamics in 2017, serving as the lead investor for that round.  “In addition to an investment from QCA’s First Fund V, we had nearly 20 members make personal ‘sidecar’ investments in that round, given our positive assessment of the company’s proposition and management team during due diligence,” said John Habbert, co-manager of QCA’s family of First Funds.  Other angel groups who invested include Ohio TechAngel Funds of Columbus, Ohio, managed by Rev1 Ventures. “It’s been a privilege to work with Trevor, his team and my colleagues on the Supply Dynamics Board,” said Ted Capossela, QCA member and representative on the Board.  “The acquisition by Exiger is an important validation of Supply Dynamics’ unique approach to ‘illuminating’ all elements of a customer’s supply chain,” added Capossela. “Since we started QCA more than 20 years ago, we have invested over $85 million in more than 100 companies, said Shipley.  “Our investments have been leveraged with over $700 million of additional capital invested by others in our portfolio companies.  Some of our earlier investments include Assurex Health (where we led the initial investment in the company), T-Pro Solutions, ConnXus, among a group of other successful companies.” “While we have a very strong current portfolio, we continue our work to identify additional investment opportunities,” said Scott Jacobs, QCA Executive Director.  “We continue to see strong ‘deal flow,’ both in the Cincinnati region and beyond.” ##### Additional information on the Supply Dynamics acquisition can be found here:   https://www.exiger.com/perspectives/exiger-acquires-supply-dynamics/ About QCA Ventures: QCA Ventures (QCA) is a group of more than 175 accredited investors in the Cincinnati region and beyond.  QCA members reside in 16 states and include former corporate executives, successful entrepreneurs, and many mid-career individuals passionate about working with start-ups.  QCA investor members evaluate early-stage angel investment opportunities and provide on-going mentoring to young businesses with exceptional growth potential.  QCA members typically contribute more than 20,000 hours per year in pro-bono mentoring, coaching, and guidance for entrepreneurs to improve their success and the success of angel investors.  Since 2000, QCA members have directly invested more than $85 million in over 100 portfolio companies.  The total capital invested in these companies, including QCA members’ capital, syndication partners’ capital, follow-on venture capital funds and venture debt is more than $700 million.  QCA’s First Fund VI, which was launched in 2019, currently has 30 active portfolio companies: Active Energy Systems, Alphyn Biologics, AKRU, Bert Thin Films, Cloverleaf, Content Status, Convey^MD, DART Displays, DAtAnchor, Divine Services Corp, Groupize, Guardian Medical, Healthy Roster, Include Health, Ischemia Care, Joot, Kurome Therapeutics, Medalink Systems, Peerro, Plankk, Qualifi, Ready Set Surgical, Resonado, Sense Neuro, ShareThis, Standard Bariatrics, SureImpact, 3 Bar Biologics and TPA Stream.  For more information, visit www.qca.com. About Supply Dynamics: Supply Dynamics provides Fortune 500 manufacturers with real-time visibility and control over the material requirements of their extended supply chain. Its innovative supply chain analytics solutions enable customers to reduce the cost of raw materials and component parts that go into their products, characterize and quantify risks, anticipate disruptions before they happen, enhance collaboration with supply chain stakeholders, and ensure that the timely purchase and supply of material-inputs is NEVER the reason parts are late to an end-use customer or in-field requirement. Supply Dynamics currently serves heavily regulated, global manufacturing companies in the oil and gas, automotive, aerospace and defense, power generation, chemical, plastics, and electronics industries. It also works with DOD Program Offices and a variety of US Government agencies, including the Navy and Defense Logistics Agency. Supply Dynamics’ product, SDX, is a highly secure, multi-tier supply chain collaboration platform, designed for complex, distributed manufacturing supply chains. It’s award winning (web-based) multi-enterprise platform, SDX, provides commercial and DOD customers with real-time visibility and control over the “material-input” requirements (metals, fasteners, plastics, electronics, etc.) that go into their products, equipment, or weapons systems – facilitating real-time monitoring and control of Tier 1-Tier N suppliers and item level bills of material. To learn more, visit supplydynamics.com. About Exiger: Exiger is revolutionizing the way corporations, government agencies and banks manage risk and compliance through its combination of technology-enabled and SaaS solutions. In recognition of the growing volume and complexity of data and regulation, Exiger is committed to creating a more sustainable risk and compliance environment through its holistic and innovative approach to problem solving. Exiger’s mission to make the world a safer place to do business drives its award-winning AI technology platform built to anticipate the market’s most pressing needs related to evolving ESG, cyber, financial crime, third-party and supply chain risk. Exiger has won 30+ AI, RegTech and Supply Chain partner awards. Learn more at Exiger.com and follow Exiger on LinkedIn