Entrepreneurship Transforms Our Entire Community.
care systems, and foundations, helping them harness their entrepreneurial spirit and advance their impact. These players are key to driving real, equitable, and measurable economic transformation.
JumpStart believes in the power of entrepreneurship and aspires to achieve an economic transformation benefiting everyone in our community. Each day, we approach our work with the goal of advancing lifesaving and industry-changing innovation among technology startups as well as small, established businesses, which are vital to the economic success of our region. We also strive to foster equity in the economic opportunities available to Black, Hispanic, Latino, and womenled companies representing diverse backgrounds and experiences. While we’ve made significant progress over the last 17 years, we realize our goal of transformation transcends today’s horizon. We’ve seen how a single entrepreneur, tech startup, or
small business owner can make a huge difference and we believe we’ll achieve far more through collaboration. Our public, private, and philanthropic institutions need to work in unison for all to thrive. At JumpStart, we’ve evolved our mission–to unlock the power of entrepreneurship– and expanded the ways we serve by offering meaningful capital, services, and connections. In addition to supporting tech startups and small businesses, we develop strategic partnerships with large corporations, universities, health
A collaborative community enabling innovation, commercialization, formation, maturation, and growth creates more wealth and opportunities for everyone. Fueled by our mission, we are proud to work alongside our partners to lift the entire community. Together, we will create the economic transformation we aspire to achieve.
ray leach
Chief Executive Officer
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