1) JumpStart
JumpStart Inc. is a well-known non-profit that helps ambitious and diverse entrepreneurs reach their full economic potential and change whole communities.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2003
- Founders: Ray Leach
- Industries: Technology
- Number of investments: 147
- Number of exits: 13
You can find their website here.
2) The Brandery
The Brandery connects startups with top creative agencies and gives them access to some of the world's biggest companies.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2010
- Founders: Bryan Radtke, Dave Knox, J.B. Kropp, Rob McDonald
- Industries: Tech, RetailTech
- Number of investments: 76
- Number of exits: 8
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 12
You can find their website here.
3) LaunchHouse
LaunchHouse is a membership community that helps ambitious builders level up and live better in the new Silicon Valley.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2010
- Industries: Technology
- Number of investments: 41
You can find their website here.
4) Flashstarts
Flashstarts is a tactical innovation firm that helps organisations think, work, and innovate like startups.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Charles Stack, Jennifer Keiser Neundorfer
- Industries: Healthcare Information Technology, Gigabit Fiber Applications, Mobile, Digital Publishing, Media
- Number of investments: 26
- Number of exits: 1
You can find their website here.
5) OCEAN Accelerator
The goal of OCEAN Accelerator is to teach people how to be entrepreneurs through training programs and an online community.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2014
- Founders: Chad Reynolds, Tim Brunk, Tim Metzner
- Industries: Information Technology
- Number of investments: 19
- Number of exits: 1
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 16
You can find their website here.
6) Lumos Accelerator
Lumos is a place where technology, entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and involvement in the community all meet.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Alex Picazo, Alex Purtell, Lacey Picazo, Matt Armstead, Maxwell Lipnick, Nick Davis, Todd Whittington
- Industries: Business Productivity Software, FoodTech, Healthcare, Media, Information
- Number of investments: 13
You can find their website here.
7) BioMotiv
BioMotiv is a part of the UK initiative to improve medicine, which is based at University Hospitals in Cleveland.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2012
- Industries: Life Sciences, Medicine
- Number of investments: 06
You can find their website here.
8) TechGROWTH Ohio
TechGROWTH Ohio was started in 2008, and it connects early-stage, technologically innovative companies with sources of capital and useful tools for growth.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2008
- Industries: Technology, Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Media, Bio-Science
- Number of investments: 06
- Number of exits: 1
You can find their website here.
9) Hillman Accelerator
Hillman Accelerator is a group that helps entrepreneurs and ecosystems that aren't as well established.
Details of the startup:
- Founders: Candice Matthews, Dhani Jones, Ebow Vroom
- Industries: Healthcare, Technology
- Number of investments: 04
You can find their website here.
10) Cintrifuse
Cintrifuse is dedicated to supporting startups, igniting innovation and attracting Iinvestment.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2012
- Industries: Technology, Life Sciences, Mobile Marketing
- Number of investments: 03
You can find their website here.
11) Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise
The Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise (GLIDE) helps business owners in Northeast Ohio combine great business ideas with good business practises.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2001
- Industries: Advanced Materials, Electronics, Energy, Bioscience, Information Technology
- Number of investments: 02
- Number of exits: 1
You can find their website here.
12) Lorain County Community College Innovation Fund
The Lorain County Community College Foundation started the Innovation Fund in 2007. It is a regional fund that helps assist entrepreneurs.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2007
- Industries: Technology
- Number of investments: 02
You can find their website here.
13) Bounce Innovation Hub
Bounce Innovation Hub opened in January 2018 to help entrepreneurs, new businesses, and small businesses in north-east Ohio.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2018
- Industries: Software, Technology
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
14) SEA Change
Sea Change gave training to help social entrepreneurs make their businesses more sustainable, figure out how they can make a positive social impact, and get the tools they need to start their businesses successfully.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2019
- Industries: Social Impact
- Number of investments: 01
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 13
You can find their website here.
15) Youngstown Business Incubator
YBI's main goals are to build successful digital businesses, encourage women and minorities to start their own businesses, and improve advanced manufacturing technologies.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 1995
- Industries: Technology, Advanced Manufacturing, B2B, Women
You can find their website here.
16) Aviatra Accelerator
Aviatra Accelerators helps women who want to start or grow their own businesses by giving them information, tools, and connections.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2010
- Founders: Candace Klein
- Industries: Women, Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
17) The Entrepreneurs Center
The Entrepreneurs Center is a modern organisation for economic development that helps and supports the growth of small businesses in the Dayton area.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 1998
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
18) Flywheel: Social Enterprise Hub
Flywheel helps social entrepreneurs start and grow businesses that make money and help people.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2011
- Industries: Environmental Sustainability
You can find their website here.
19) Braintree Business Development Center
The Braintree Business Development Center helps small businesses in Northeast Ohio. It is a regional organisation that helps entrepreneurs.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 1987
- Industries: Technology
You can find their website here.
20) HCDC's Business Center
Alloy Development Co. (formerly HCDC) is a place where organisations, businesses, and communities can find what they need to grow.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 1989
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
21) GiveBackHack
GiveBackHack works with entrepreneurs and innovators to bring long-term answers to social problems to communities all over the world.
Details of the startup:
- Started in: 2014
- Industries: Social Impact
You can find their website here.
22) Start:ME Evanston
Start:ME is a 14-week program that helps the most potential micro-entrepreneurs in the Evanston area learn about business and get help from a mentor.
Details of the startup:
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 14
You can find their website here.
23) SQUARE1 Minority Velocity
Square1's goal with our startup training is to find, teach, help, and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs and leaders.
Details of the startup:
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.