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1809 CAPITAL NEWS


Joy Mbanugo is Making Big Moves by Helping Businesses Develop Unrivaled Financial Structures Backed by 19 years of experience in audit tax, business operations, financial services, capital markets, and treasury, Joy Mbanugo is making big moves while simultaneously helping other entrepreneurs grow their ventures. Joy equips her clients with the fundamentals in business growth and amplifies the need to invest in their people, infrastructure and digital assets to land among industry leaders. Her extensive background has been instrumental in enhancing non-profit finance and investment committees. Joy has also established meaningful relationships within the industry that gives her clients leverage when it comes to investment and growth opportunities. Formerly, Joy Harper, Joy Mbanugo is truly the ruler of her own queendom with a clear vision of what she wants to achieve and where she wants to take her many skills. Joy is currently working on Google’s Cloud Partnership Finance team, where she is responsible for evaluating partnerships and cross-functional deals. Prior to her current role, Joy has also worked on the Finance Transformation, Systems, and Integration group, which is responsible for Google’s financial data. She has also worked on the largest ERP to ERP transformation across the country and led the Treasury Tax initiative at Google, a process that streamlined cash management of $100 billion. Besides working with the greats, Joy Mbanugo has also helped many startups, understanding how such businesses contribute significantly to their respective industries as she is also an entrepreneur herself. Joy is the Chief Financial Officer of Paladin.org, a nonprofit that focuses on supporting underserved founders to structure their startups. In addition, Joy is a newly invested angel investor and consults with startups for free and fun to help them develop a sound financial model and enhance product management.





Huge congratulations to Dr. Tim R. Holcomb Ph.D. on his promotion to full Professor in the Miami University Farmer School of Business at Miami University.

Dr. Holcomb has tirelessly served the students at Miami University as the current Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and as the Director of the John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship. Under his leadership, the Department and Institute implemented a strong "learning by doing" model that has helped propel Miami's Entrepreneurship program into The Princeton Review's “Top 10 Public Schools for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Studies” for 14 consecutive years and helped Miami's entrepreneurship program earn the Nasdaq Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award in 2020.

Dr. Holcomb is also an advisor and/or board member for several high-growth companies, including Portland-based OROS, Cincinnati-based Cerkl and Homeshake, Columbus-based 4Privacy, New York-based Nunona, and Tampa-based ReliaQuest, among others. He was a finalist for the VentureOhio 2019 Catalyst of the Year Award and the Greater Cincinnati Venture Association (GVCA) 2017 Mentor of the Year Award for his work in the Greater Cincinnati and broader Ohio startup ecosystems.





1809 Capital Partner, NGP Capital, Raises New Venture Investment Fund of $400M NGP Capital has raised a new venture investment fund of USD 400 million from Nokia. The new fund will invest in promising, growing companies, with a focus on Edge Cloud, Cybersecurity, Digital Industry and Digital Transformation in the US, Europe, and China. This is the fifth fund that NGP Capital has managed for Nokia and today’s investment brings the fund’s total committed, but uninvested capital, to more than USD 550 million, and total commitments from Nokia since the fund’s inception (in 2005) to more than USD 1.6 billion.




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