Jesse Johnson has spent his entire career focused on the intersection of business and environmental impact, from founding sustainable design firm Q Collection to running cleantech-focused funds and investing in over 200 early-stage companies with two successful exits to Fortune 50 buyers. Rather than working from a traditional tech hub, he has deliberately built an innovation and capital ecosystem in Telluride, Colorado—a mountain town of just over 2,000 people—co-founding the Telluride Venture Accelerator and helping catalyze the Telluride Venture Fund.
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Telluride Venture Fund
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Health, Energy, Consumer, CPG / D2C, Education
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$100K - $250K
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Telluride Venture Fund is one of the only early-stage investment funds in southwest Colorado, specifically designed to accelerate seed and early-stage technology companies in the Colorado Plateau region with a focus on outdoor recreation and tourism rather than generic tech hubs. The fund operates as part of a broader rural capital infrastructure built by the Telluride Foundation, including Telluride Angels and specialized loan funds, and emerged from the nationally recognized Telluride Venture Network that has produced 80+ graduating companies.
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