Funds will help venture capital company set up local office

SPRINGFIELD – Some of the state's latest venture capital investment will be making its way to Champaign.

Ceres Venture Fund, a woman-owned venture capital firm that got $700,000 in state funds on Thursday, will use some of that to help Colorado-based Solidware Technologies Inc. establish a new Champaign office.

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