Peter, managing director at MPM Capital, invited WCC to invest in Aratana alongside his firm and another VC firm, Avalon.
Also, the WCC's new head, Olav Fykse Tveit of Norway, was invited to Cape Town, despite his roots in liberal Nordic Lutheranism.
The WCC has heard company presentations and requests for equity financing from nearly 25 percent of the women-led businesses that have made inquiries for funding.
In addition, three WCC members sit on the boards of companies in which WCC has invested, overcoming another obstacle that women encounter, which is that of joining corporate boards.
The Bulldogs, who earned the WCC's top seed for the 13th time, were the first team to go 16-0 in the league in the two years of the 16-game format.
The ninth-seeded Lions, who posted one win in the first two months of the calendar year, tripled that figure in the WCC tournament with three straight wins to get to the semifinals.
Challenged in the first half by a team that went 1-15 in WCC play this season, Gonzaga turned up the defensive intensity and opened the second half on a 19-5 run to seize momentum.
In stark contrast to most angel groups comprised primarily of men, businesses declined for investment from WCC often are provided with guidance, advice, and mentoring from the women entrepreneurs, executives, attorneys, health care experts, and other highly qualified women who make up the WCC network.
Since three out of the seven companies in which Steven has successfully invested are led by women CEOs, he was drawn to the WCC, where he found like-minded investors and champions for Aratana CEO Linda Rhodes and her revolutionary plans for pain relief and weight-loss prevention in companion animals.
But if the ecumenists of the WCC and certain evangelicals are getting on better, it's probably because Christianity's centre of gravity is moving south to Africa and other poor places, where the ideological rows of the northern hemisphere often ring hollow, and churches dare not neglect either the spiritual or the material.
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