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Captricity Closes Financing Round with Knight Enterprise Fund Investment
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Six media innovation ventures awarded more than $1.37 million as winners of Knight News Challenge on Networks
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Knight Foundation invests in Umbel to provide new audience measurement standard to media companies
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Knight Foundation Names Philadelphia Program Director and Director of Business Consulting
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Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen Addresses Economic Outlook
Knight Blog
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Captricity: freeing data trapped on paper
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Knight welcomes Carol Coletta as new vice president
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Knight Foundation goes live with new portal for grantees
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Turning online news into 'TV'
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Exploring a sustainable business model with PublicStuff
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What's in store for News Challenge Winner Watchup
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2600+ tweets from #civicmedia
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Internet native news networks, what's working in #opengov and more for #civicmedia day 2
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Winners in Knight News Challenge: Networks
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Hockey fans like donuts: why it could make online news content more valuable
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Five lessons learned from a social entrepreneur
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Media books in a networked, digital journalism universe, Part 2
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Snag Films Beta Launched
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Turn civic health data to useful apps/visualizations: have impact on public decision-making http://t.co/t0geH1yYEQ @CivicData deadline 5/19
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.@knightarts finalists show depth of #Miami’s #cultural community, diversity of leaders & outside-the-box ideas http://t.co/QhoY4fxUNz
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50 black male leaders honored tmrw in #Detroit #Philly #Baltimore. Follow along with @bmecommunity #bmecommunity http://t.co/7CE8mGlkFu
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#FF to some of our grantees building more informed/engaged #SanJose & #SV: @ZERO1_ART @SomosMayfair @siliconvalleycf http://t.co/7soMxnDzbF
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Tomorrow morning 10:30 am @bmedetroit @bmebaltimore @bmedetroit honor #leadership winners. Follow #bmecommunity! http://t.co/7CE8mGlkFu
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Civic engagement increases with news & information projects, funders find http://t.co/bYdo7He9We #philanthropy #infoneeds
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#techjobs MT @bthewirz: Great opportunity, amazing team + disruptive tech @captricity is hiring! https://t.co/yScKB59riI cc @knightfdn
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Believing in power of tech & collaboration as impetus for community building http://t.co/ncY9tEKBH8 by @SFlaBizJournal v @matthaggman
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Digital Public Library raises questions of ownership, permanence, access http://t.co/CIslAm8YFy v @p2173 @dpla #libraries
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Where art & tech meet big government data: #HackForChange #Miami http://t.co/1dliYczYwV v @ndahlberg @thelabmiami
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Funding opportunity for community #foundations: Knight Community Information Challenge deadline 6/1 http://t.co/kOrE3ZhGbr #philanthropy
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RT @jcanales: Congrats, Alberto! RT @TimOlsonSF: PBS honors @ibarguen with Be More award #pbsam @knightfdn http://t.co/abUmkMjjf8
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Finding opportunities & addressing needs in #SanJose http://t.co/7soMxnDzbF v @knightsilicnvly #SV #philanthropy
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“BMe is based on a simple truth: there are thousands of black men who are assets to their #communities” - @TSatKF http://t.co/uCketrD2iA
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We're hiring a systems #analyst. Find out more details & apply: http://t.co/P8cv6Y5bY5 #hr #jobs
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Making it so that everywhere you go in S. Florida, you have an encounter with #arts http://t.co/QhoY4fxUNz The @knightarts finalists.
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How civic #entrepreneurship is re-energizing #Detroit - lessons from the field http://t.co/WiAyr9Ul8V v @leagueofcities #socent #socinn
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Community #foundations are discovering good info promotes social change, opening up data & experimenting with mobile http://t.co/a1vtIexBRk
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.@GirlsWhoCode hosts Inaugural Teacher Training Workshop in NYC to prep for summer’s programs http://t.co/JscDZuopps #changetheratio
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10 ways civic hacking is good for cities http://t.co/SRG1rtt5ax v @codeforamerica #hackforchange #cfabrigade
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MT @ccoletta: Miami Nice (and @matthaggman nice) is good for entrepreneurship. http://t.co/uw1O8rRhNe @knightfdn #socent
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MT @cksopher: Anyone working with audio: @PopUpArchive launched beta of archive management system. They are awesome http://t.co/b7COdtTRbn
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"There are thousands of black men who are assets to their communities" - @TSatKF http://t.co/FnPftf8bkr v @BMECommunity @BMePhilly
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Insights & info on applying to the Knight Community Information Challenge http://t.co/a1vtIexBRk #infoneeds #philanthropy
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Nearly $200k awarded for community strengthening efforts in #Baltimore http://t.co/mIlvx9lwpK via @baltimoresun @BmeBaltimore
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As consumers increasingly use phones 2 access news & info, #foundations take engagement efforts #mobile http://t.co/cfI6epEYgO #philanthropy
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Less than a week to submit your idea to the @CivicData Challenge. Make civic data useful! http://t.co/t0geH1yYEQ #opendata #dataviz
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Legal Hackathon supports #Miami’s #startup culture http://t.co/6nvniMExEg v @PipelineMIA @LegalHackMiami #atthack
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Mobile experiments to inform residents about #environmental issues: a look at @GrowWNY @CFGB @cleanairwny http://t.co/cfI6epEYgO #WNY
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#Leadership award winners: 20 #Philly brothers receive $200k for their community projects, via @BMEPhilly http://t.co/bc5TaOykZR
In The News
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Building venture capital from within
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News: Miami startup Guide receives $1 million in seed funding; next stop SXSW
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Guide raises $1m to create a video news channel of websites read by avatars, now in private alpha
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Better know a reader: Umbel wants publishers to have better data on their audience
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Tech Crunch: Umbel Gets Strategic Investment From Knight Foundation To Change The Way Online Audiences Are Measured
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O'Reilly Radar: Michael Maness on why data science research matters and how the Knight News Challenge is adapting
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Ownlocal scores funds to get small firms online
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ENTERPRISE FUND ADVISERS
Chris Hughes
Knight Foundation Trustee
Joichi Ito
Knight Foundation Trustee
John Palfrey
Knight Foundation Trustee
Michael Maness
VP/Journalism & Media Innovation
Juan Martinez
VP and Chief Financial Officer
Ben Wirz
Director/Business Consulting
About our Knight Enterprise Fund strategy
The Knight Enterprise Fund provides early-stage venture funding for media innovation. We’re looking for companies with disruptive solutions at the intersection of information, community and engagement.
The Knight Enterprise Fund serves as a co-investor in its portfolio companies, investing $25,000 -500,000 and helping to fill out early investment rounds with experienced angel and venture capital funders.
An initiative of Knight Foundation, the Enterprise Fund promotes portfolio companies across Knight’s large network of media, educational and non-profit partners. Portfolio companies can also benefit from Knight’s strong community relationships in 26 U.S. cities to create partnerships with hundreds of civic and community organizations as well as Knight's significant presence at national and international media conferences. Knight seeks to benefit its network and partners by improving their access to innovative technology and solutions.