TVF views itself as a ``management development company`` rather than a traditional ``Venture Fund.`` When investing in seed and early stage companies, TVF encourages and supports rigorous management skills, superior market analysis and product development, while maintaining a focus on leadership and execution. TVF also helps create the necessary connections and collaboration between potential strategic partners an/or investors.
There are a few things that set the Telluride Venture Fund apart, such as striving to be a catalyst for high growth businesses; serving as an essential component of the developing entrepreneurial ecosystem within Telluride and the Colorado Plateau; supporting “Impact Investing” (investments where the intention is to generate measurable social impact alongside a financial return); and providing attractive returns for its investors.
``Impact Investing`` is making investments in companies to generate job creation, along with a financial return. TVF is dedicated to assisting organizations and companies within Colorado and the Colorado Plateau in developing a sustainable economic future by growing and nurturing new local enterprises, as well as attracting business to relocate or establish branch operations or joint ventures with existing companies.