As Director of Advisory Services, Anne Balduzzi manages TEDCO’s Rural Business Innovation Initiative, Rural Pre-Seed Investments, and Network Advisor program.

Before TEDCO, Anne held product development and management positions at both Apple and AOL. After working in Silicon Valley, she founded Accelerate Partners where she advised and assisted a wide range of start-ups and established technology companies. More recently, Anne founded SameGrain, an award-winning AI enabled data insight platform where she secured a patent in data match analysis and received a phase one SBIR grant.

Anne is also a speaker/author on artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship and a member of Mindshare.