SOURCE
Institutional Investor
Jeffrey Kutler
“When KKR & Co. co-founder Henry Kravis started the Partnership Fund for New York City in 1996, the effort to support local business ventures was bound to make waves. But it wasn’t until 2010 that a picture of how big its impact would be began to emerge.
That was the year the Partnership Fund’s president and chief executive officer, Maria Gotsch, co-founded the FinTech Innovation Lab with Robert Gach, a senior capital markets consultant with Accenture. The lab connected venture capitalists and start-ups, creating an ecosystem for mentoring and financing that has been replicated internationally.