Community Builders of Kansas City strives to empower and engage with the community, which includes spurring entrepreneurial advancement. Opportunity Hub of Kansas City (OHUB.KC)’s mission is to drive shared prosperity and new multi-generational wealth creation by building authentic inclusive innovation, entrepreneurship & investment ecosystems in communities of color. This alignment of strategic goals has made CBKC and OHUB.KC natural partners. OHUB.KC convenes its entrepreneurship support programming at 5008 Prospect and holds many of its 3rd Fridays Entrepreneurship Series in donated space at The Shops on Blue Parkway.
Last May, OHUB began a journey in Kansas City to strengthen the inclusive innovation, entrepreneurship and investment ecosystem that was being built by and for communities of color. OHUB introduced its proven playbook for inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem building. Since that time, OHUB.KC has made an enormous impact in our community including:
- 1600+ attendees at 3rd Friday’s
- $750M in VC funding has visited KCMO
- 400+ pitches at the 18th & Vine ABC Sharktank official casting call
- 188 applicants to our entrepreneurship support programming
- 102 participants in the CEO of My Life Ideation and Design Thinking Masterclass
- 62 startups in the six month startup bootcamp
- 12 participants in the NewMe pre-accelerator and recipient of $5,000 non-dilutive grants
- 5 participants in the KC.UP Accelerator
- $250K in founder friendly capital invested in five accelerator startups
- Attraction of 2 high growth startups to open a KCMO office
Hundreds participated in OHUB.KC Demo Day virtually on March 27. A new virtual coding school in collaboration between OHUB, Morehouse College, Momentum Learning and KC Global Design Group was announced. Virtual classes start in May. Persons interested in gaining the skills to work as a software developer are encouraged to apply here.
Know someone interested in tech and high growth entrepreneurship? Encourage them to check out OHUB.KC at https://linktr.ee/ohubkc.