Startup Impact

The Ohio State University

Ohio State is one of the largest universities in the nation. It’s also home to a diverse group of the best and brightest people in the world: dedicated faculty, passionate students, and innovative researchers who make Ohio State one of the world’s truly great universities.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital

At Nationwide Children’s, we are creating the future of pediatric health care. We consider every detail.  Every decision. Every aspect of the care we provide for every child. From the child who comes to us with pediatric cancer, congenital heart disease, or cystic fibrosis. To the child who comes to us with a sprain, a broken bone, or a simple fever. Here, the future health and potential of all children, is being shaped at The Children’s Hospital. Here, our doctors are revolutionizing your child’s health and the health of future generations.

Grange Insurance

Grange partners with local, independent insurance agents near you who can provide a quote on Grange auto, home, or business insurance.

Worthington Enterprises

Worthington Enterprises (NYSE: WOR) is a designer and manufacturer of market-leading brands that help enable people to live safer, healthier and more expressive lives. The Company operates with three segments: Building Products, Consumer Products and Sustainable Energy Solutions. Worthington’s emphasis on innovation and transformation extends to building products including water systems, heating and cooling solutions, architectural and acoustical grid ceilings and metal framing and accessories, and consumer products in tools, outdoor living and celebrations categories sold under brand names Coleman®, Bernzomatic®, Balloon Time®, Level5 Tools®, Mag Torch®, Well-X-Trol®, General®, Garden-Weasel®, Pactool International® and Hawkeye™. The Company serves the growing global hydrogen ecosystem through on-board fueling systems and gas containment solutions.

Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Worthington Enterprises employs approximately 5,000 people throughout North America and Europe.

Founded in 1955 as Worthington Industries, Worthington Enterprises follows a people-first Philosophy with earning money for its shareholders as its first corporate goal. Worthington Enterprises achieves this outcome by empowering its employees to innovate, thrive and grow with leading brands in attractive markets that improve everyday life. The Company engages deeply with local communities where it has operations through volunteer efforts and The Worthington Companies Foundation, participates actively in workforce development programsand reports annually on its corporate citizenship and sustainability efforts. For more information, visit worthingtonenterprises.com.

The J.M. Smucker Company

Supporting startups that are transforming the food industry.

COTA

Moving forward, prioritizing data and analytics will be COTA’s driving force as we tap into emerging technologies that will transform transit as we know it in central Ohio. The entrepreneurs and innovators we collaborate with will access and leverage COTA’s transit expertise, market reach and regional infrastructure.

State Auto Labs

State Auto Labs brings together investment and insurance expertise to grow innovations that are reinventing the insurance industry.

In collaboration with Rev1 Ventures, State Auto Labs connects startups with capital, technologists and insurance industry experts. Our objective is to identify, become early adopters of and invest in transformative technologies and solutions.

OhioHealth

WE are OhioHealth. A family of not-for-profit, faith-based hospitals and healthcare organizations. WE have been serving patients in central Ohio since 1891. As WE grow, so does our belief that people come first. That every patient, no matter who they are and no matter which of our many hospitals or healthcare services they choose, deserves the very best care.

Dickinson Wright

Dickinson Wright is a growing, full-service firm of experienced, creative, diverse and dedicated legal professionals. Our attorneys are respected by their peers, honored by industry endorsements and recognized through significant appointments to bar associations and the judiciary system.

But, the most important thing to us is the respect we’ve earned from our clients. For more than 130 years, we’ve put our clients first.

Across our 40 practice areas, our team of over 380 lawyers has an unwavering focus on providing unmatched client service and the highest quality legal advice. We are proactive and accessible. We offer clear and concise solutions. And always, we are mindful that we must deliver the absolute best value on every client engagement, whether it’s large or small.

Bridge CFO Services

With over 20 years of experience helping companies regarding operations, finances and fundraising, Bridge CFO Services can help translate your vision. Our mission is to turn entrepreneur visions into financial stories promoting innovation and growth in Ohio.  Innovation will lead to additional funding in the Midwest to allow entrepreneurs the opportunity to chase their dreams.

GBQ

Like many of the companies we serve, we were founded in Central Ohio. After more than half a century, we are the area’s largest independent accounting and consulting firm. While our size permits us to serve even the most complex organizations, our independence allows us to keep all decision-making authority in one place. GBQ’s entrepreneurial spirit is most evident in the close personal attention provided by our associates. They deliver a no-nonsense approach with local expertise and a broad range of consulting skills—a combination that saves you both time and money. Discover why forging a relationship with GBQ could be one of your very best business decisions.

Thompson Hine LLP

With the experience and resources to handle the most challenging legal issues, Thompson Hine strives to deliver consistently exceptional guidance, value and service, and to fulfill our Client Service Pledge from the inception of each matter to its close, and beyond. In fact, our goal is to be the best law firm our clients have ever dealt with.

Brixey & Meyer

Brixey & Meyer are an unconventional team of business experts who love to help companies grow. Their services extend beyond transactions as you typically find in a Public Accounting firm. They focus to transform businesses and take the time to learn all the intricacies of their business and find ways to be the trusted business expert to help meet their goals.

They have extensive experience in Tax Compliance & Consulting, State & Local Tax Incentives, Audit & Assurance, Business Valuations & Due Diligence, Pension & Benefits Services, CFO Services: Outsourced & Augmented Accounting, Leadership Advisory, and Business Advisory: Strategic Planning, System Selection, & Advisory services.

Big Kitty Labs

With roots in software development, our team of innovation enthusiasts, developers, designers, and strategists are experienced partners to the startup and investment communities. Experts in ideation, innovation, product definition, rapid prototyping, and investor communications, Big Kitty Labs has been a part of the origin story for nearly 100 product concepts and proud to be a part of those creation and evolutionary journeys. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients to breathe life into concepts that can be shared, tested, revised, evolved and launched.

We work with first-time entrepreneurs who have exciting new and unique ideas; with established companies that are looking for new solutions and that seek the perspective of an outside partner to help evolve and grow the business; and, finally, we work with enterprise brands, both for- and not-for-profit, looking to embrace what’s next with the nimbleness required by a world that is transforming at an alarming pace.

Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLC

At Porter Wright, we regularly work with emerging technology companies to help optimize business structure, operations and finances, minimize risk and successfully manage the legal issues encountered as they grow their businesses. Our team of attorneys can help select an organizational and operational framework that makes sense for the venture’s business objectives; structure business alliances in research, development, manufacturing and distribution; acquire, protect and exploit intellectual property rights; navigate the capital raising process, and meet regulatory obligations. The firm’s 220 attorneys also serve clients in commercial transactions, intellectual property, tax, litigation, and labor and employment.

Addison-McHenry Group LLC

At times, mid-market companies encounter obstacles to growth rooted in subpar market strategy and sales execution. Those companies have the same need for sound strategy and sales performance as larger enterprises, but lack resources. And, to be competitive, sales and marketing must be smart, agile, and integrated. Often, the natural reaction to sagging revenue achievement is a series of tactics to shore up performance without consideration for the root causes. Addison-McHenry Group LLC is adept at and singularly focused on aligning sales and marketing with sound strategy and smart execution. Addison-McHenry Group LLC clients desire accelerated growth, have a solid value proposition, but need to fine tune elements of their strategy and sales to drive revenue at a steeper trajectory. We are a company with sleeves rolled up, having tackled growth issues in various roles, with insight that comes with over sixty years of success.