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T-REX Turned Spare Office Space Into St. Louis's Startup Switchboard
What began as an overlarge lease became a civic machine: cheap desks, patient capital, university labs and government mapmakers packed into one old furniture building downtown.
NextGEN Gives Greenville Founders Someone to Call
Free mentor teams, small-group workshops and carefully matched investor meetings are NextGEN’s answer to founder isolation. In Greenville, the work of building a startup community happens one useful introduction at a time.
Leandra Elberger
Leandra Elberger is the Head of Platform at Forum Ventures, New York's leading pre-seed fund and accelerator for B2B SaaS startups. With a career winding through global health, Wall Street, entrepreneurship education, and venture capital, she has built expertise in founder support and community infrastructure. A Tufts grad with an MBA with distinction from Cornell Johnson, she previously served as Studio Director at Cornell Tech and Head of Platform at Atento Capital, and has authored thought pieces on healthcare market opportunities and fintech infrastructure for founders. Her guiding philosophy: a career is a choice that indicates your values.