JobsOhio Announced Partnership with SixThirty
Collaboration to Scale-up Innovative Technology Startups
JobsOhio has announced a multi-year partnership with SixThirty, a venture fund that specializes in investing in and scaling up enterprise technology startups. The partnership, SixThirty’s first with a statewide economic development organization, is designed to drive collaboration between startups and corporations, giving startups the resources they need to grow and scale, and incumbents access to leading startups to fuel their competitiveness.
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“With a blend of highly-respected brands in insurance, asset management, banking and financial services, Ohio is strongly positioned to be a national leader in growing FinTech and InsurTech startups,” said JobsOhio president and CEO J.P. Nauseef. “This partnership with SixThirty will provide access, coaching and connections for innovative startups from around the world that can position them for future success and give them the opportunity to discover Ohio as an excellent place to do business.”
Together, JobsOhio and SixThirty will execute and expand upon SixThirty’s world-class Go-To-Market Program for startups in FinTech, InsurTech, Information Security and Healthcare.
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SixThirty is built on a guiding principle that ‘revenue is the best form of capital for start-ups.’ Atul Kamra, Managing Partner of SixThirty noted Ohio’s leading market share in the finance, insurance and health sectors. The partnership with JobsOhio spotlights this buying power to drive mutual value.
Kamra added, “We look forward to collaborating with JobsOhio and Ohio’s leading incumbents to attract and scale the most promising FinTech, InsurTech and digital health ideas and, in turn, sustain and strengthen Ohio’s competitiveness in industry sectors in which they have inherent strength.”
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