2021 Year in Review

This past year was monumental for our team at Render Capital for many reasons. 2021 marked our second full year as a fund and my first year leading our team as Managing Director. Our team moved into our new offices in Louisville’s NuLu neighborhood, and our regional ecosystem experienced incredible growth despite the persistent and unique challenges we all continue to face.

If you are unfamiliar with Render Capital, we are an investment fund committed to increasing access to capital for businesses within Louisville and Southern Indiana. We provide access to capital across a range of products, from traditional venture capital, to grants for Black and brown founders through our First Dollar Program, with traditional debt and venture debt in between.

One of our cornerstone events, the Render Competition, was thankfully able to happen in person this year. We had over 300 applicants from 27 countries, 22 states, and 6 continents, all of those companies committed to building in our great region and tapping into the opportunities and resources of the Render network and the startup ecosystem here.

Our region is on the rise, and access to capital, while growth is still needed, is flourishing now more than ever. Because of our amazing community of founders, startups, program partners, and co-investors, it truly was a year to remember. We started Render Capital because we wanted to play an active role in unlocking more capital for our region’s entrepreneurs. Increasing access to capital has been the mission of Render Capital from the beginning, and that will not change.

Finally, a big thanks to our whole Render team for making this our best year yet, with amazing growth and an even more exciting year ahead in 2022.