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President and CEO, Activation Capital, Richmond
President and CEO, Activation Capital, Richmond
Virginia Business// January 30, 2023//
The leader since 2020 of a Richmond-based innovation incubator that includes a biotech park, startup development and a newly invigorated cluster accelerator for pharmaceutical research and manufacturing, Briggman is off to a fast start. Growing up in a town of 2,000 in rural South Carolina, she was inspired by her parents to pursue innovation.
“Neither one of my parents had the opportunity to go to college,” Briggman says. “I consider them two of the smartest people I know. They were doers and experimenters, and that foundation was important.”
After college, Briggman worked for the U.S. Postal Service, where she learned about the intersection of service and technology, then for a Boston nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship. At Activation Capital, her role is “to manufacture entrepreneurs at scale,” she says — including recently landing a $53 million federal grant to expand manufacturing and development of pharmaceuticals in the Richmond region.
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