Welcome to Vicinity Ventures — the joint venture between VentureSouth and Vicinity

Vicinity Partnership

VentureSouth is partnered with Vicinity Capital, a “Regulation CF” portal based in Greenville, to provide your technology platform and expand the investment opportunities available to VentureSouth members.

You can review the slides we discussed at the 2025 Summit announcing the partnership here, and enjoy this announcement video.

Technology Platform

Step one of the partnership is the reporting platform. Please click here to start the process for accessing the platform.

Once logged in, you should see available your portfolio, including the amounts you invested, proceeds and distributions, current operating status, and the “book value” of each investment.

You can also explore the marketplace to find current VentureSouth open rounds (cards with blue borders) and other available opportunities.

Please explore these initial functions, and let us know if you see any issues with your data. As the platform evolves, we invite your feedback on improving the contents and user experience.

Investment Opportunities

We offer VentureSouth members curated southeastern, early-stage, technology-based investments. These are marked in blue with the VentureSouth logo in the marketplace.

With the Vicinity partnership, we also offer a wider set of investment opportunities. You should already be able to access the “community-focused” investments available in the “marketplace.” If those look interesting, you can participate (typically on preferential terms for VentureSouth members) directly inside the platform.

Second, we are adding a wider set of curated and diligenced “alternative investments”, including in operational businesses, micro private equity and credit, and real estate developments. The goal is to make “Vicinity Ventures” the platform for local “alternative investing.”

The expanded team is working to add “local” investment opportunities in our hometown markets. We would love for you to help with that, to further increase the volume of “home-town” investment options, and would appreciate your referrals or ideas.

Member Experience

Alongside the tech platform and broader deal flow, we hope the platform improves your member experience. Improvements over time include:

  • Easier filtering for deals that meet your preferences;

  • Smoother workflow for indicating interest, completing investment paperwork, funding investments, and receiving distributions all within the platform;

  • Receiving portfolio update reports, tax documentation, and other reports more frequently inside the platform.

What is NOT changing

The partnership with Vicinity brings an expanded team to implement these deals and improvements. We do not intend to change how VentureSouth “works”. We will continue to do the best diligence work we can, on the most attractive early stage companies we can find in the southeast, under our continuing mission to Make Money. Have Fun. Do Good.

We are doing all this without changing VentureSouth fees in any way. Our investment structure (using a Delaware Series LLC) remains unchanged in “VentureSouth” deals. The core team of Matt, Paul, Charlie, Alex, Caroline, and our interns and supporters remain engaged - reinforced by the Vicinity team (Josh, Wilson, John, and Shane).

To Wrap Up

If you made it this far, thank you! We hope this partnership and our strategic improvements continue to improve your experience as a VentureSouth member, and we look forward to continuing working with you. If you have any questions or concerns, please call or email us any time.