Business Development

Purpose First Advisors works with entrepreneurs and the organizations that serve them to build profitable ventures that create generational wealth for founders and their families. Purpose First Advisors is particularly focused on helping women and entrepreneurs of color—those visionaries who are typically underrepresented and underestimated—build wildly successful businesses. Founder & CEO Christy Maxfield’s portfolio includes […]

Founded in 2008 as the IT Entrepreneurs Network, ITEN’s mission is to be a catalyst for tech innovation by supporting the development of fast-growing and successful technology businesses. Designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, we require neither payment nor equity from early-stage startups. We accelerate scalable technology startups by providing unique entrepreneurial training and education, mentoring

Covo is a beautiful, welcoming place to grow your business, complete with a diverse and inclusive community of incredible entrepreneurs who are propelling St. Louis forward. Our space is wrapped around Trust, a craft cocktail bar in our gorgeous, historic gem of a building. Enjoy Covo from $2/ hr for drop-in to $400/month for a

Though 95% of their employee base is in Utah, they’re now expanding into Brazil and Australia and having tremendous success in these countries. Podium was founded in Lehi, Utah, in 2014. Today it helps over 40,000 businesses improve their customer interactions. But before it was named one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies, its

The future of the St. Louis entrepreneurial ecosystem will be deeper levels of corporate and startup engagement through structured programs. Corporates struggle to innovate and they must look to startups to assist them with this process. Startups have the ability to be nimble and adapt to new technological trends that can become massive disruptors, whereas

A dedicated group of seasoned financial advisory professionals who coordinate the various skills and background of each team member to meet the needs of their client base. The Forbes Gilham Group of Wells Fargo Advisors takes a different approach to the needs of business owners and families. They have ability to take a long term

TaskEasy delivers automated yard care to homeowners, renters, and businesses through intuitive software and innovative technology. Since its inception in 2013, the company has grown from a 10-member crew working out of a basement to a 300-person team with headquarters in Salt Lake City and three international support offices. These teams specialize in connecting thousands

ELEVATOR PITCH Skaffolder is the SaaS platform that allows software development teams to save up to 40% of time and costs. We do this thanks to our code generator that creates web and mobile applications in many programming languages, you can craft the generation template that fits best the standards of your company. Unlike other

Craig Mandeville Founder and CEO That’s it. And if everything we do in between that leads to that, then we’re providing true value. My wife used to work for a home health agency, facilitating patients discharged from the Mayo Clinic who were going into post-acute care. She was faxing things back and forth; there was

Arizona is home to one of the fastest growing life science sectors in the country. The Greater Phoenix Area is at the center of the action and holds the greatest concentration of life science and healthcare innovators in the state. Health innovations are born as discoveries, are shaped, tested, and proven during the development process,

Serious Simulations designs and manufactures professional-grade virtual-reality training equipment that prepares professional military, law enforcement, sports, emergency, commercial, and industrial personnel for successfully executing the complex—and sometimes dangerous—tasks they are likely to face in their fields. The phrase “serious gaming” may sound like an oxymoron—or perhaps like hours spent in a video game—but in reality,

India’s first ethical sourcing platform has been devised by a Canadian company, Plastics for Change. It uses mobile technology to reduce plastic pollution, create resilient livelihoods and enable global brands and manufacturers to source high-quality plastic from responsible supply chains. The company is developing partnerships with plastic aggregation centers across India that would benefit from

Kris Gopalakrishnan (Co-founder – Infosys & Chairman, Axilor Ventures) is devoting all his efforts and a considerable sum of money into putting India in the lead of changes driven by technology by focusing on the entire value chain – tertiary education, research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He wears multiple hats – he’s the industry’s innovation evangelist,