Anne Balduzzi is TEDCO’s Director of Advisory Services where she manages the Rural Business Innovation Initiative (RBI2), Rural Pre-Seed Fund, and Network Advisor program. As an early Internet pioneer, Anne’s background includes product and marketing development roles at Viewtron, AOL (as a start-up), and Apple. After working in Silicon Valley, she returned to the East Coast and founded Accelerate Partners. She later founded SameGrain, a vertical AI platform.

Anne has been recognized as one of the region’s Top Women in Tech and holds a patent on data match analysis. She is a frequent speaker and author on entrepreneurship and AI.