Last year, Build In SE focused on community growth as we continue to support builders in the Southeast. Some of these highlights include:

Research

• Relaunched buildinse.com including city guides, an interactive map, navigation for our growing founder and investor resources, and more
• Released additional Southeast exit data, now at 187 companies
• Released the Southeast Accelerator Database
• Updated the Southeast Capital Landscape, now at 337 firms

Events

• Connected our Southeast community IRL during the 3686 Festival in Nashville, TN:

  • Hosted 30 women investors (VCs and LPs) for our Third Annual Comfort Food and Conversation, co-hosted with LaunchTN and sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

    

  • Hosted a Nightcap Happy hour at 3686 with Network N’ Chill from Louisville, KY

  • Launched our Southeast CEO Dinner with a [Beta] dinner sponsored by Edison Group & London Stock Exchange, bringing together 20 post-Series A CEOs and C-Suite executives

  • Hosted our first main stage panel at 3686, featuring 5 entrepreneurs turned VCs from across the Southeast representing Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama

  

• Co-hosted the 4th Annual Women In Venture Breakfast at Venture Atlanta, bringing together over 60 women investors from across the country, co-hosted with Kwontum.io and The JumpFund and sponsored by Morris, Manning, and Martin, LLP

  

• Brought back Nashville Tech Gives Back and launched the 2nd annual #615TechDrive with a kickoff happy hour in December co-hosted with NashTech and Startup Nash. View the VIP reception photo gallery here.

  

Community + Team Growth

• Collaborated and hosted 12 deal flow calls as part of WISE (Women Investors in the Southeast)
• Expanded our team into Kentucky with the addition of Chris Redd and Ellie Puckett to our Ecosystem Curator network
• Grew to 418 followers on LinkedIn and 707 followers on Twitter

All of our work is made possible thanks to our all-volunteer team of ecosystem builders and thought leaders from across the Southeast. We encourage you to give each of these incredible #BuildInSE team members a follow online to stay current on their respective Southeast markets.

Listed in alphabetical order:

• Chris Redd, Network N’ Chill (Louisville)
• Colleen Flynn, FINTOP Capital (Nashville)
• Dan Holahan, Embarc Collective (Tampa)