Sponsor Benefits

SPONSOR BENEFITS

If you wish to get introduced to CEOS of the area's most innovative companies with the highest growth potential, be recognized as a supporter of the area's entrepreneurial community, be known as a service provider interested in working with entrepreneurial companies and want your logo in front of thousands of business owners, then you should consider becoming a GRCTW sponsor.  Your logo appears on the GRCTW web for a full year after the event!

The Greater Richmond Companies to Watch project has received unprecedented support from the Greater Richmond business community, all of whom wish to identify themselves as supporters of the area's vibrant entrepreneurial environment.

The following organizations and businesses are partnering with the Venture Forum in this project:

The Venture Forum
The Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce
The Greater Richmond Partnership
Richmond BizSense
Rich Tech
Virginia Council of CEOs
Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Greater Richmond Grid, fka WorkMagazine

All of these organizations will be publicizing the project and event to their membership and mailing lists, both inside and outside of the Richmond area. This includes, the Venture Forum's email list of about 2600 names which consist mostly of local business owners, service providers and financing sources. In addition, the Venture Forum will be distributing the list to venture cpaital firms in Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland.

Richmond Grid will include the GRCTW brochure in 20,000 copies of the January issue and may include stories on many of the selected companies. The Richmond Grid list includes the Greater Richmond Partnership's contact lists of CEOs of Fortune 1000 companies, corporate investors, local and outside government and civic leaders and local and national relocation specialists and consultants.

The brochure will feature a full color, four page pull-out which will consist of a cover page, text page, and two page photo and descriptions of the selected companies. The Presenting Sponsor will have its logo on the cover; other sponsors will have their logos on the second page. Richmond Grid can be found in local Ukrops, Barnes & Noble bookstores, and other retail locations.

The Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce will publicize the project through its weekly Chamber Currents newsletter and pubish and maintain the list on its website which receives over 30,000 unique visitors per month.

RichTech will publicize the event to its membership through emails and its web site.

Sponsors of the project and event will receive multiple exposures to the various memberships and mailing lists of these organizations through a single sponsorship.  You will also receive recognition at the reception event. 

Sponsorship of the Greater Richmond's Companies to Watch will enable businsses to align and associate themselves as service providers that work with companies with high growth potential.

From a branding perspective, you will be seen as an active supporter of economic development in the Greater Richmond area.

Your association with the project will not end with the event, as multiple media entities will be writing articles on the selected companies and many of the organizations above will continue to list the event on their websites. Brochures are distributed throughout the year.

Lastly, there is usually an invitation-only pre-event for the CEOS, sponsors, and GRCTW volunteers.  If you would like to meet face-to-face with multiple CEOS of fast-growing businesses, this is a great opportunity to meet them.  Companies interested in sponsorship opportunities should email Tom Bowden of the Sands Anderson Marks & Miller law firm.

We hope you join our loyal sponsors in supporting the GRCTW.