JumpStart Inc. | Entrepreneur Resources & Ecosystem Support

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We provide valuable services and crucial investment capital to help grow businesses.

Funding

JumpStart is an active venture capital investor, helping entrepreneurs access the funding they need to grow their high-potential startups.

Services

Our personalized business assistance is designed to help startups and small businesses overcome the obstacles standing in the way of growth.

Programs

Our structured programs fulfill specific needs for specific types of companies, while helping entrepreneurs focus on what really matters.

Coronavirus/COVID-19 Update

Many resources have been made available to assist entrepreneurs and small business owners in this time of need. Please check out our COVID-19 Resource and Assistance Guide to learn more.

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Upcoming Events

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Saturday

Dec. 5

Turning Your Art Into a Business

A free series of online webinars designed to empower creative artists in animation, film, journalism,…

Tuesday

Dec. 8

2020 Core City: Cleveland Pitch Competition

Join us on Tuesday, December 8, to support 10 entrepreneurs that live or own a…

Tuesday

Dec. 8

Got A Side Hustle? Let’s Formalize It!

This session will be jam-packed with all you need to know about the basic steps…

Tuesday

Dec. 8

Virtual ECDI Information Session

This session offers a brief overview of all the programs and resources the Economic Community…

Thursday

Dec. 10

2021 Is Almost Here–Start Off Strong

This timely webinar will focus on providing you with high-impact, practical, and effective methods to…

Saturday

Dec. 12

Turning Your Art Into a Business

A free series of online webinars designed to empower creative artists in animation, film, journalism,…

Tuesday

Dec. 15

Manage Your Finances Like A Boss

In this class, Rick Zwelling of Right Path Financial Coaching will cover all aspects of creating and…

Thursday

Dec. 31

Ask the Expert – Keep Calm and Keep Inventing

SBDC invites you to join Jake Ward as he discusses Intellectual Property. This one hour,…

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Our Companies

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From venture-backed tech startups to traditional small businesses, we work with hundreds of high-potential companies each year.

Original Cleveland Watch Company

After hanging up her badge, former Cleveland police officer Amparo Vega knew a relaxing retirement wasn’t for her. Instead, she decided it was time to launch a new career—as a…

Rust Belt Riders

Rust Belt Riders is a worker-owned organic waste removal service available to Northeast Ohio businesses, schools and institutions. Their mission is to create wealth from waste through the conversion of…

hand-n-hand, LLC

hand-n-hand, LLC, is the maker of the jojohuggs—homemade preterm blankets that give parents/loved ones the ability to hold babies with minimal restriction of the IVs and/or leads. hand-n-hand, LLC is…

Banyan Technology

Banyan Technology has developed a unique web-based solution that creates and maintains direct and instantaneous connections between manufacturers and distributors and their freight carriers. The company's focus is to enable…

Abyrdseyephoto Production

Abyrdseyephoto Production is an inner-city photography studio that serves the community through corporate and event photography. Abyrdseyephoto focuses on capturing candid, off guard portraits that reveal your true character (a-byrdseye-view),…

Amplifund

Founded in 2008 by StreamLink Software, our key vision is to provide the tools and resources to take on complex — and often tedious — grant management processes. AmpliFund's efficient,…

eAdhere Solutions LLC

eAdhere Solutions exists to simplify healthcare delivery to anyone, anywhere. By building physician first tools, the company enables healthcare providers nationwide to care for their patients anytime, anywhere. eAdhere Solutions…

Thermalin Diabetes, LLC

Thermalin Diabetes is developing clinically-superior, second generation insulin analogs for the rapidly growing $12 billion insulin market. Thermalin's patent pending compounds include rapid-, intermediate- and long-acting analogs. With patents expiring…

Kareem’s Landscaping

As a certified landscape designer, Kareem Hardy has a passion for creating and maintaining beautiful green residential and commercial spaces in Greater Cleveland. Kareem's Landscaping operates seven days a week…

Vaultz Inc.

The goal of Vaultz Inc. is to be the personal mobile payroll department for the independent worker, giving freelancers and the self-employed an experience where their withholdings and tax payments…

GenomOncology

Battling cancer, one genome at a time. An emerging player in the field of genomics, GenomOncology’s proprietary software and analytical tools can rapidly and interactively analyze and interpret sequenced genomic…

Vox Mobile

Vox Mobile is a Cleveland-based provider of complete enterprise mobility and IoT services for domestic and international organizations. Founded in 2006, the company addresses every aspect of mobile technology planning, management…

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