Venture Funding Hubs, which have already blazed a trail across the UK and beyond, will this month take flight to California landing in one of the country’s most deprived communities in South Central LA via London and the world’s tech hub: Silicon Valley and San Francisco.
Entrepreneurs across the UK and the world have already come together creating 74 hubs in places as far afield as Australia and Vietnam, Auckland & Oxford so far this year. Working with crowdfunding and community development organisation ‘Crowdfund Better’, architect and cofounder Barry James, who’s CEO of The Crowdfunding Centre, is taking this to the next level in LA.
“LA communities like Compton and Watts have been left behind by the traditional economy and so are among the most financially deprived in America” commented crowdfunding expert Kathleen Minogue of LA’s Crowdfund Better “and we know that Crowdfunding holds the keys to empower people and communities to help themselves and recreate the local economy. Which …