Comeback Capital: Heartland Investing

​Join us for an exciting webinar with Scott Shane on January 13th, Saturday at 7:00 PM BST / 8:00 AM EST / 5:00 AM PT.

​Scott Shane is Managing Director of Comeback Capital, a pre-seed stage venture capital fund that invests across the Midwest, now on its second and third funds. He is also a Deal Flow Tracker for Right Side Capital Management, a San Francisco-based pre-seed stage micro VC fund, and an advisor to Ivy Cap Ventures, a $150M Indian venture capital fund. He is an active angel and limited partner and mentor at the Iconyc, Acceleprise and gener8tor accelerator funds, and an LP in Refinery Ventures and Illuminate Ventures.

​He is the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University. The author of 95 scholarly articles and 15 books, Dr. Shane was the 2009 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the most prestigious award in this academic field. According to a study by John Ioannidis at Stanford University, published in PLoS Biology, Dr. Shane is the 1,137th most impactful scientist out of 7 million living scientists.

We will hear him on:

• ​Scott's personal background and how he came to be in this space

• ​Going through his career, journey to Comeback

• ​The vision behind the organization, Scott's thesis, operating structure & investment process, approach to portfolio value creation, and exits

• ​Opportunities Scott is excited about 

• ​Role of diaspora communities in the Midwest when it comes to supplying talent for the entrepreneurship community