Join us Tuesday, November 8th at the Idea Greenhouse

6:30pm Networking and Social Time

7:00pm Podjam Begins

Idea Greenhouse is pleased to announce our second PodJam, with Michael Gurau of Clear Innovation Partners.

What is a PodJam?

A "PodJam" is a word we made up to describe a casual conversation between IGH Founder Tom Elliott and a regional entrepreneur with an interesting story.

Our guest will be interviewed casually before a live audience and also simulcast as a live webcast, and then available later as a audio-only podcast.

Tom will interview Michael about his decade of experiencing helping educate and fund startups in northern New England, and his passionate support for growing great ideas in nontraditional "rural" areaas like the Seacoast.

About Michael Gurau & Clear Innovation Partners

Clear Innovation Partners (Clear) is a Maine-based firm formed to catalyze and sustain innovation and entrepreneurship in rural and urban economies. 

Michael is Clear's Founder and President and brings twenty seven years of business experience including: fifteen years of early, development and late stage venture capital investment experience, the past eight of which in an economic and community development context that includes management of a federal equity and grant program; twelve years of early stage and new venture creation experience, eight of which—as noted--as an early stage venture capitalist and four of which as a manager of two startup ventures.

Gurau also brings two years as a product and marketing management for a successful web-based software development business, backed by venture capital and now part of a public company, and four years as an innovation cluster “catalyst.”  

Michael holds an MBA (1992) from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and a BS Finance (1984) from Babson College. Michael lives in Freeport Maine with his wife and four children.