Access to capital and robust deal flow are the dual engines of entrepreneurial growth.

According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Report, in 2013, the state of Oklahoma ranked 44th in terms of venture capital investment dollars.

What’s really unfortunate is that we are trending in the wrong direction. In 2008, there was $17 million in venture capital invested here; last year it had fallen to $8 million, with the vast majority of that investment being deals in which i2E invested.

While most states seem to have returned to pre-financial crisis levels over that last five years, venture capital investment in Oklahoma declined more than 50 percent.

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