Stadia Ventures is a Sports Innovation Hub for entrepreneurs, industry partners and investors. We create an ecosystem for sports innovation growth by leveraging our team’s core strengths – education, investment and industry expertise.

MVF is a non-profit organization formed in 1985.  Originally known as Missouri Venture Forum, we exist to bring together people who are genuinely interested in helping entrepreneurs grow their business.

We serve entrepreneurs – those leading the growth of earlier stage businesses – through peer networking, topical education and access to capital resources.

BLUE1647(TM) is an entrepreneurship and technology innovation center that fosters economic development in technology and 21st Century skills through people development (classes, workshops, and events around technology), workforce development (through youth and adult technology programs to prepare individuals for high-demand jobs) and Business Acceleration (through shared coworking-services).

We are a St. Louis-based not-for-profit organization that coordinates regular in-person meetings and events focused on product management and other product-related topics.

Connect! … With inventors, entrepreneurs, intellectual property professionals, manufacturers, and investors.

Educate! … Information, insights, mentorship and support shared by experts and industry leaders.

Create! … Helping our members bring new products into the marketplace.

GlobalHack is building a better tech ecosystem through software competitions. Our events bring together developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and technologists to build innovative software solutions that solve real-world problems.

From whiteboard to boardroom, the UMKC Innovation Center partners with the university and the community to spark entrepreneurial efforts within our region and across the country.  With a suite of high-impact programs, the center helps emerging and existing business owners, whether they are student, faculty or community based, hone their business basics, evaluate commercialization opportunities, and connect with the right resources at the right time.