Founded in 2013, Opportunity Hub (OHUB) is an entrepreneurial center that offers multi-campus coworking spaces, intense entrepreneurship, investment and code school curriculum and programming, pre-accelerator and incubator. OHUB is also the vetted seal of authentic diversity and inclusion in the startup ecosystem, capital markets and beyond. Five thousand (5,000) people enter Opportunity Hub’s campuses every year to explore, work, learn & build. Currently headquartered in Atlanta, GA, OHUB's definitive mission is to create and develop a diverse and inclusive highly skilled, competitive and innovative talent pool that will ideate, launch, start and scale high growth companies as entrepreneurs or “intrepreneurs”. Creating and managing an end-to end pipeline via targeted market exposure, intense engagement, immersive education and ongoing mentorship are definitive to accomplishing our mission. Our innovators and entrepreneurs also gain access to authentic advisors, innovative practices, essential resources, meaningful connections and smart capital - in sectors such as tech (consumer facing, SaaS), consumer products goods (CPG), supply chain innovation (and supplier diversity) and social impact. Created with the startup and early stage company in mind, OHUB is for anyone that is serious about working in an environment of like-minded entrepreneurs and committed to learning, implementing and sharing the knowledge, best practices and relationships formed while in our ecosystem. Via curated mentors and experts in residence, we teach our coworkers and stakeholders how to effectively navigate the innovation, entrepreneurship & investment ecosystem with confidence and definitive purpose. We also mentor new angels and “nano angels” on how to invest in startups and early stage companies. Our Impact (to date)Since its inception in 2013, Opportunity Hub has had the following impact:• Exposed and educated 10,000+ aspiring and existing entrepreneurs (and 1,500 youth) to the innovation, entrepreneurship & investment ecosystem via our large-scale annual conferences in Atlanta and Washington, DC; and 200 + events we host annually at OHUB;• Mentored and advised 1000+ entrepreneurs via our mentor office hours;• Instructed 250+ entrepreneurs via our 1-day accelerators;• Pre-Accelerated 25 startups and early stage companies through our 6-month curriculum which includes entrepreneurial mindsets, professional acumen, team building ideation, customer discovery, business model generation, entrepreneurial fundamentals (legal, accounting, marketing, sales), access to capital and pitching; • Awarded $60,000 in code and cofounders school scholarships; • Our ecosystem startups have raised over $5,000,000 in pre-seed and seed capital; • Raised $100,000 via crowdfunding • Created over 50 high growth jobs. Represents over 100 indirect jobs created; • Piloted #OHUBStartupSummer internship program with 30 high school and college students in partnership with Fulton County Government.
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Welcome to the ecosystem. ohub is coworking dedicated offices.
shared hot-desks. meeting space. classrooms. flexible hotdesks
private meeting rooms ohub is curriculum startup summer.
hackathons. 200+ events. influencer conversations. startup summer
Youth are exposed early to ideation, design/theory, coding &
startup culture + careers. hackathons tech. industry. diversity.
social justice. unemployment.poverty. opportunity influencer
conversations Congressman Hank Johnson and Chairman Fred Hochberg
(United States Export Import Bank) ohub is a pipeline code school.
pre-accelerator. accelerator. Incubator. capital pre-accelerator
Three to six months of intense learning, productizing, launching
and repositioning to go to market and beyond ohub pipelines to 70+
investment accelerators, including Troy Carters SMASHD labs
incubator Twelve months of intense mentorship, engagement and
interaction ohub creates angels Creating new women and minority
investors to fund women and minority startups and early stage
companies and beyond. Launching angel investing certificate program
with Morehouse College. ohub fosters serendipity Steve Case spends
time with OHUB entrepreneurs. Later that day, #OHUBPioneer,
Partpic, founded by Howard Alum & Googler Jewel Burks win
$100,000 in the #RiseofRest Pitch Competition. #dreambigger Spelman
professor and Atlanta University Center students
