Winrock International has announced the creation of a new fund dedicated to deploying early-stage capital to Arkansas startup companies. The Validation Fund, which went live Dec. 10, seeks to catalyze this crucial category of validation-stage funding. “Winrock’s been a leader…
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AcreTrader Raises More Than $5 Million Led by Walton Brothers’ RZC Investments
by Tyler Haleby Tyler HaleA rising Northwest Arkansas early-stage company has secured a seed round of funding of more than $5 million. AcreTrader, an online farmland investing platform, has raised the funding is an oversubscribed investment round, led by RZC Investments. This group also…
by Carter Malloy There are several ways farmland owners can earn income, with each model exhibiting different levels of risk and reward. The best choice will depend upon things like your level of capital reserves, your level of experience with…
by Greg Hartz The practice of working until you were no longer able began to change roughly 150 years ago. Some of the early pension programs around the world were started in order to “retire” older, less productive…
2018 was a huge year for venture capital in the U.S., which sparked concern over what 2019 would bring. Would there be a slowdown in venture capital investments? This concern was quickly abolished when venture’s first quarter of 2019 picked…
by Douglas Hutchings, PhD The largest economic development bill introduced this legislative session might end up being SB145,a bill to amend the definition of “public utility,” and to amend certain definitions under the Arkansas Renewable Energy Development Act of 2001, sponsored…