See the latest news on JumpStart, our work, and our progress below. If you have a media inquiry, please get in touch with Samantha Fryberger, JumpStart's Director of Communications, via email at sam.fryberger@jumpstartinc.org or phone at 216.363.3400. You can also follow us on Twitter: @JumpStartInc.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Venture capital is becoming a scarce commodity in Northeast Ohio. The amount of money invested in local startup companies has plummeted over the past several months, and it isn't expected to bounce back quickly. Read More ...
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Brecksville-based MOVABLE has raised $775,000 that it will use to ramp up sales and improve its products--colorful plastic wristbands designed to help people track how physically active they are, and software they use to access that data. Read More ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
I interviewed entrepreneurs, sponsors and VCs at the World's Largest VC Office Hours @ NVCA Venturescape. They included Corey Epstein, Founder/CEO 20jeans; John W Steidley, CEO Intelligent Mobile Support; Aleda Schaffer, Manager Sales American Airlines; Samantha Fryberger, VP of Marketing JumpStart; and more. Read More ...
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Rather than investing in an industrial park, city officials’ new economic development project is in an empty basement-level office suite. Read More ...
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Nine young Northeast Ohio businesses were inducted into the Charter One Launch100 Leadership Circle on April 25. Local inductees included Nicole Zmij, CEO of Amplified Wind Solutions in Cleveland, Lindsay Sims, founder and CEO of Renter’s BOOM, Lissette Rivera, founder of SafeCare, all in Cleveland, and Shaquita Graham, CEO of King J Transportation in South Euclid. Read More ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Civic and political leaders in Northeast Ohio talk at length about working together regionally. But it may be the area's private-sector business development and attraction organizations that make the best effort at getting regionalism to work. Read More ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
The numbers indicate Northeast Ohio’s economy is recovering. Numbers such as 36,383 jobs created or retained in the region during 2012. Those jobs translate into $1.65 billion of payroll. Read More ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
One of Northeast Ohio’s many unique programs is the Charter One Launch100 Leadership Circle. Created in 2012, the Circle recognizes minority entrepreneurs committed to turning their business ideas into companies that can have an impact in the region. Read More ...
Thursday, April 04, 2013
NEOSA Tech Week returns for the third year, April 15-21 at various locations. “This year we reached out to a lot of community organizations around Northeast Ohio, like Team NEO, JumpStart and the Regional IT Engagement (RITE) Board,” says NEOSA director Brad Nellis. Read More ...
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Investment in Northeast Ohio is outpacing the nation….at least in startup IT and biomedical companies. Venture capital and angel investor cash went up by 34 percent in 2012. Read More ...
Friday, March 01, 2013
Ray Leach, CEO of JumpStart, and Joe Marinucci, president and CEO of Downtown Cleveland Alliance, talk about how communities can better support local entrepreneurs. Read More ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013
IdeaCrossing, a free online resource operated by the Northeast Ohio nonprofit venture development organization JumpStart Inc., brings the components of this entrepreneurial ecosystem together in one place. Read More ...
Thursday, February 28, 2013
The Burton D. Morgan Foundation, which supports entrepreneurship education and programming in Northeast Ohio, awarded a $1 million grant to JumpStart last week for an entrepreneurial mentoring program over the next three years. Read More ...
Friday, February 22, 2013
The number of angel investors in the U.S. has jumped 60 percent since 2002, and the number of dollars they’ve invested in companies has gone up even faster. Read More ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Venture for America, a non-profit group that places new college grads in startup companies, is coming to Cleveland. The New York-based organization focuses on placing new college grads in jobs at startups in cities with a low cost of living and in the process of revitalization. Read More ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The Burton D. Morgan Foundation of Hudson said Wednesday it has awarded $1 million for a new program that will allow nonprofit JumpStart Inc. to help thousands of entrepreneurs in the region. Read More ...
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Salaries for technology professionals working in Cleveland rose by double percentage points over last year, according to the 2013-2012 Dice Salary Survey from Dice, a career site for technology and engineer professionals. Read More ...
Thursday, January 31, 2013
According to the Northeast Ohio Venture Capital Advisory Task Force, 105 tech-based companies in Greater Cleveland raised $201 million from venture capitalists and angel investors -- a 34-percent increase over the amount raised by companies in 2011. Read More ...
Friday, January 25, 2013
Bucking the national trend, Cleveland's high-tech sector enjoyed a burst of momentum last year as venture capitalists poured new levels of money into the region. Read More ...
Thursday, January 17, 2013
In a Huffington Post story titled “How Women Entrepreneurs Succeed in the Midwest,” Lynn-Ann Gries chronicles the emergence of high-profile startups and companies founded by women in the Midwest, especially Cleveland. Read More ...