JumpStart News

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Organizations in Northeast Ohio have been awarded a total of $14.1 million in grants from the Ohio Third Frontier program, which is designed to stimulate the state's economy through investments in technology. Read More ...

Starting a new technology related business usually begins with a really big idea or service that meets a market need. Most small business founders have the great idea covered; it’s the cash and the expert advice that so often become hurdles to success. Read More ...

When a patient needs a breathing tube or feeding tube, proper placement is critical. Miach Medical Innovations, a company formed in 2011 out of CWRU, is developing tubes with built-in sensors to ensure proper placement. Read More ...

John Dearborn, president of JumpStart Inc., uses a Huffington Post column to talk up the Midwest as an emerging “entrepreneurial hotspot." Read More ...

Art Geigel and Christopher Armenio illustrated the "game changing" quality of their technology by showing off the feature that first impressed them: Its ability to pour a beer. Read More ...

Doug Weintraub has long been an advocate for stimulating economic growth inNortheast Ohio. He was a key member of the entrepreneurship task force that reformulated the economic development landscape in the region. Read More ...

Amplified Wind Solutions, a Cleveland State University company behind a wind amplification system that can produce up to six times more electricity than a typical wind turbine, won second place and $600 in the student business competition at JumpStart’s Entrepreneur Expo November 13. Read More ...