Read the full article by Hannah Ross at Sacramento Business Journal
In Roman lore, Minerva, goddess of wisdom, commerce and arts, was born out of Jupiter’s head, split with a hammer to release her full form, clad in armor. Today, the name lends itself to the freshly launched MinervaVerse — a venture capital fund and business services organization geared toward supporting women and minority entrepreneurs in the Sacramento region.
MinervaVerse will be the first venture capital fund founded by women in the Sacramento region and will offer wraparound support to entrepreneurs through their fund, accelerator and business incubators.
“MinervaVerse was born out of the challenges that my co-founder Rachel Zillner and I faced as we were getting established with our business Clutch,” said MinervaVerse co-founder Anne Descalzo. “In growing and scaling the organization, access to capital and resources we found were really limited and we wanted to be part of the solution.”