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How InnoVentures Helps Focus and Grow Businesses
Volunteer Tove Hoyer, shares her experience as a business coach for InnoVentures, Ventures’ annual pitch contest and fundraiser.
Partner Spotlight: Hopelink
Spanish by Mary. ProCleaners LLC. These are some of the Eastside-based businesses that were supported through Ventures’ first-ever business training course offered on the east side of Lake Washington. In spring 2017, 19 Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs learned the nuts...
Our Commitment to Innovation
When Ventures was founded more than twenty years ago, our goal was to take an innovative anti-poverty program from halfway around the world and use it to help underserved communities in the Puget Sound region. Since then, innovation has been an integral part of our...
A Note from Ventures’ Board Member David Goldberg
I joined the Ventures board in 2013 because I was attracted to the organization’s mission of empowering the owners of microenterprises to achieve success in their professional and personal lives. I grew up in a family supported by small business, and the...