An ice cream shop needs venture money to grow rapidly, same as any other company.

So says Brian Smith, the cofounder of Brooklyn’s Ample Hills Creamery, which raised more than $7 million big ones last quarter.

“It seemed like what we created might have legs beyond our Brooklyn roots and there was no way to do that on the slow boil of the profits of one shop to the next shop to the next shop,” he explained by phone last week. “We’d be here 10 years.”

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