Who's Funding AI Startups in the Midwest? Featuring Exit Quotient Ventures

Join us for a live session with Broc W. Edwards, Managing Partner at Exit Quotient Ventures, a Midwest-focused fund investing at pre-seed and seed in capital-efficient startups. Broc is also Founder and CEO of Pronoia Capital, with a background in investment banking at Merrill Lynch, Keefe Bruyette & Woods, and Raymond James. We’ll map the local funding landscape: which funds and angel groups are deploying, what public programs and grants are available, realistic check sizes, and what investors screen for, including the AI-native traction local investors are increasingly asking about. Register now and leave knowing who to approach.

❯ Guest Speakers include:

• Broc W. Edwards (Exit Quotient Ventures)
• Jason Jacobsohn (Founder & Managing Director, Propellant Ventures)

❯ What You'll Learn:

• Which funds, angel groups and public programs are actively deploying in the Midwest;
• What check sizes are realistic locally, and at what stage;
• What each type of funder screens for before taking a meeting;
• What AI-native traction means to a local investor;
• How a founder at idea stage gets on the radar of any of them.

Featured Speaker:

• Broc W. Edwards - Managing Partner at Exit Quotient Ventures - Broc leads a Midwest-focused venture fund writing pre-seed and seed checks into capital-efficient startups across the region. He is also Founder and CEO of Pronoia Capital, and spent his career in investment banking at Merrill Lynch, Keefe Bruyette & Woods and Raymond James before becoming an investor and operator himself.

❯ Who Should Attend:

• Founders in the Midwest who do not know where local capital comes from;
• Idea-stage founders planning a first raise in their own market;
• Founders considering whether to raise locally or elsewhere;
• Anyone who assumed there was no money in this city.

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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/405277/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!