Join Us for an 1809 Capital and Miami Alumni Breakfast Networking Event!

Please join us for an 1809 Capital and Miami Alumni breakfast networking event on Wednesday, February 14th at Canopy in Menlo Park. We look forward to providing an update on the Fund’s progress. Tim Holcomb, Chair of the Department Entrepreneurship will also overview the department’s growth and strategic impact on Miami’s academic mission.

Miami’s John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship recently won the 2024 Model Program Award, given annually to the top entrepreneurship program by USASBE (U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship).

Participants will also receive current market insights from Brian Wilcove (Miami ’95), Partner America's Frontier Fund and Charlie Friedland, Partner Glynn Capital. Hear their perspective on the impact Generative AI and Large Language Models are having on startup formation and growth opportunities. Many believe we are at the beginning of an exciting multi-year (possibly decade-long) technology and venture growth cycle. These developments are also strategic to future US global competitive advantage.

Agenda:

• 8:00am – Registration and breakfast

• 8:30am – Introductions: Mark Richey, Partner, 1809 Capital

• 8:45am – Market Insights: Fireside Chat

• 9:15am – Miami Entrepreneurship: Tim Holcomb, Chair Department of Entrepreneurship

• 9:30am – Networking

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Miami Entrepreneurship Department Named Winner of 2024 Model Program Award

On January 13th, Miami University's John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship and the Department of Entrepreneurship won the 2024 Model Program Award from USASBE- United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The USASBE Model Program Award is awarded annually to the top entrepreneurship program in the nation and recognizes a university entrepreneurship program that provides "comprehensive, bold, high-quality educational programs that train future generations of entrepreneurs."

The judges noted Miami's success at connecting the entrepreneurship program with Divisions across campus while implementing curricular and co-curricular programs that engage students from every undergraduate major across campus and the impact of the Program's practice-based, immersive learning approach to undergraduate entrepreneurship education in preparing tomorrow’s entrepreneurial leaders to be “job ready, day one.” Miami's Entrepreneurship Program joins a select list of university entrepreneurship programs to win the award, a list that includes Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business, Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business, Syracuse University - Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and the UMKC Henry W. Bloch School of Management, among others.

[Pictured left-to-right: Julienne Shields, President and CEO at USASBE; Dr. Tim R. Holcomb Ph.D., Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship and Director, John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship in the Miami University Farmer School of Business; and Dr. Brett Smith, University Distinguished Professor, Cintas Chair in Entrepreneurship, and Founding Director of the Center for L.I.F.E. (Leading the Integration of Faith and Entrepreneurship)]

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Griid Infrastructure, Adit EdTech Complete SPAC, has Begun Trading on Cboe Canada

Congratulations are in order to Griid Infrastructure President and CEO, Trey Kelly. Trey is a Miami University Alumnus who founded Griid in 2018. Cincinnati welcomed Griid as its newest public company just two days into the new year.

Norwood-based bitcoin mining startup Griid Infrastructure – which made headlines in recent months with its roller-coaster ride to the trading block – completed its business combination with blank-check special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) firm Adit EdTech, effective Dec. 28.

Griid said in a news release its common stock is expected to go live today on Toronto-based Cboe Canada, formally known as the NEO Exchange, under the ticker symbol “GRDI.”

Griid is also seeking to list its common stock and warrants in the United States. It did not elaborate as to which exchange it would trade on.

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