The chief executive officer of Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated may establish a program to incentivize the formation of at least one new venture capital fund in the state. Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated may invest up to ten million dollars only if private investors invest at least one and one-half times the amount Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated pledges to invest in a new fund. Any such fund shall be subject to the following requirements:
(1) The amounts invested by Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated pursuant to this section shall be invested in start-up and growth stage companies located in the state. Such requirement shall not apply to the amounts invested by private investors pursuant to this section;
(2) The investor or the managing venture capital firm managing such fund shall have an office located in the state; and
(3) Any partner in a fund established under this subdivision may buy, after five years from the date of the establishment of the fund, Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated's equity stake in the fund plus interest at an annual rate agreed upon by the partner and the executive director.
(P.A. 18-178, S. 49.)
History: P.A. 18-178 effective July 1, 2018.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 32 - Commerce and Economic and Community Development
Chapter 581 - Innovation Capital Act of 1989. Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated
Section 32-32. - Short title: Innovation Capital Act of 1989.
Section 32-33. - Legislative finding.
Section 32-35. - Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated.
Section 32-36. - Perpetual succession. Termination.
Section 32-37. - Board of directors.
Section 32-38. - Chief executive officer.
Section 32-39. - Corporate purpose; powers.
Section 32-39d. - Guarantees of corporation made investment securities.
Section 32-39f. - CTNext. Purposes. Board of directors. Executive director.
Section 32-39g. - CTNext. Powers.
Section 32-39h. - CTNext. Procedures.
Section 32-39i. - CTNext Fund established. Uses.
Section 32-39j. - Definitions.
Section 32-39k. - Innovation place program. Purposes.
Section 32-39p. - Connecticut 500 Project. Goals. Solicitation of bids.
Section 32-39w. - Assistance with state strategic economic planning.
Section 32-39x. - Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program. Proof of concept fund.
Section 32-39y. - Recapitalization of innovation place program. Bond authorization.
Section 32-40. - Applications for financial aid.
Section 32-41aa. - Connecticut Bioscience Innovation Fund. Definitions.
Section 32-41b. - Bond issue for high technology products. Loan interest rates.
Section 32-41bb. - Bioscience Innovation Advisory Committee.
Section 32-41dd. - Bond authorization for Connecticut Bioscience Innovation Fund.
Section 32-41g. - Short title: Technology Deployment Act of 1993.
Section 32-41h. - Legislative finding.
Section 32-41i. - Definitions.
Section 32-41j. - Manufacturing application center program.
Section 32-41k. - Deployment research program.
Section 32-41l. - Energy and environmental technologies deployment center program.
Section 32-41m. - Connecticut educational and job training technologies deployment center programs.
Section 32-41n. - Critical technologies grant program.
Section 32-41nn. - Bond authorization for Regenerative Medicine Research Fund.
Section 32-41o. - Bond issue for technology deployment.
Section 32-41oo. - Program to incentivize formation of new venture capital funds.
Section 32-41p. - Workplace center of excellence program.
Section 32-41q. - Critical industries development account. Purpose. Regulations.
Section 32-41qq. - Plan to collect data re crumbling concrete foundations.
Section 32-41r. - Short title: Economic Recovery Act of 1996.
Section 32-41t. - High technology research and development program: Definitions.
Section 32-41u. - High technology research and development program: Establishment and purpose.
Section 32-41v. - Connecticut New Opportunities Fund.
Section 32-41w. - Early-stage venture capital program.
Section 32-41x. - Preseed financing account and program.
Section 32-41z. - Bond issue for the Connecticut Bioscience Collaboration program.
Section 32-42. - Examination. Audits.
Section 32-43. - State pledge.
Section 32-44. - Powers to be interpreted broadly.
Section 32-45. - Inconsistent provisions of law.
Section 32-46. - Tax exemption.
Section 32-47. - Personal liability of directors or persons acting on behalf of the corporation.