SECs 41st Annual Small Business Forum

The Small Business Advocacy Office hosted the SEC’s annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation, where members of the public and private sectors gathered to provide feedback to improve capital-raising policy. The 2022 Forum took place over four virtual session featuring appearances by each of the Commissioners and an exciting line-up of speakers with in-depth knowledge of the issues facing small business and their investors across the country.

Recordings are available of each day’s session:

• Empowering Entrepreneurs: Tools to Navigate Capital Raising
• Hometown Entrepreneurship: How Entrepreneurs Can Thrive Outside of Traditional Capital Raising Hubs
• New Investor Voices: How Emerging Fund Managers Are Diversifying Capital
• Small Cap World: What to Know and How to Think Ahead

Policy Recommendations

On July 28, 2022, the Commission delivered the 2022 Small Business Forum Report to Congress. The report summarizes the 41st annual Forum proceedings, including the recommendations developed by participants for changes to improve the capital-raising framework and the Commission’s responses to those recommendations. 

Remarks from SEC Officials

• Chair Gary Gensler
• Commissioner Hester M. Peirce
• Martha Legg Miller, Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation

Transcripts

• Empowering Entrepreneurs: Tools to Navigate Capital Raising (April 4, 2022)
• Hometown Entrepreneurship: How Entrepreneurs Can Thrive Outside of Traditional Capital Raising Hubs (April 5, 2021)
• New Investor Voices: How Emerging Fund Managers Are Diversifying Capital (April 6, 2022)
• Small Cap World: What to Know and How to Think Ahead (April 7, 2022)

Reports and materials from prior forums are available online.