Seeking Seeds, Not Forests
Why Our Next Investment Isn’t in Pueblo, Colorado, And What We’re Looking For Instead
First, a sincere thank you to the people of Pueblo, Colorado. Your interest, vision, and growing innovation ecosystem are deeply inspiring. It’s clear that Pueblo has cultivated a strong foundation for entrepreneurship, with active incubators, co-working spaces, and a community of builders who are breathing new life into the city’s legacy of resilience and reinvention.
However, as we consider where to plant our next investment roots, our strategy takes us on a different trajectory, one that seeks to spark fire in places where the embers have all but gone cold.
We are specifically looking to invest in communities that do not yet have a thriving startup ecosystem, areas that have been historically vibrant but are now economically stressed, often due to the collapse or departure of dominant industries. These are towns and cities where the infrastructure of work remains, but the future of work hasn’t yet arrived.
Why Not Pueblo?
It may seem counterintuitive, but Pueblo’s strength is also the reason we’re not selecting it for this particular initiative. Pueblo is already on the map. Its ecosystem may still be emerging, but it’s undeniably present: tech events, mentorship networks, innovation hubs, and capital sources are beginning to coalesce. This momentum means Pueblo has the internal machinery to build forward from here, and likely will.
By contrast, our goal is to intervene where the machinery doesn’t yet exist at all.
What Are We Looking For?
We are seeking undervalued, overlooked communities, often former industrial strongholds, mining towns, or agricultural centers, where:
Major industries have left, leaving behind infrastructure, housing, and talent with nowhere to go.
There is no current tech incubator or startup hub, or if there is, it remains extremely limited and under-resourced.
Youth flight is common, and local ambition is underfed not because of lack of will, but lack of scaffolding.
The median household income is well below the national average.
There's a visible hunger for transformation, even if there's not yet a vehicle for it.
We believe the next startup success stories don’t have to come from coastal tech hubs or trendy second cities. They can, and must, emerge from the communities that built America’s industrial backbone, that understand what it means to make things, and that are ready to build again.
The Vision: Building in the Blind Spots
We’re not just dropping into these communities with capital. We’re building infrastructure: seed funding, mentorship, high-speed internet access, co-working labs, and most importantly, cultural permission to try, to fail, and to create something new.
This is not charity. It’s investment with conviction. We believe some of the most resilient founders are found in places where resilience has been necessary for decades, they just haven’t been given the tools to scale their ideas.
To Pueblo, With Respect
We see Pueblo not as a missed opportunity, but as a model of what can happen when communities commit to reinvention. Your trajectory affirms the thesis: investment in local ingenuity works. We cheer for your continued growth and welcome future collaboration, even if our path takes us elsewhere for now.
If You're a Town Waiting for a Reboot…
If your community has been forgotten by the future, we want to hear from you.
Let’s not just revive what was lost.
Let’s build what’s next, together.