Innovation Portal

🌟 Exciting Event Announcement: Meet our speakers!🌟 We are thrilled to introduce the incredible speakers for our upcoming event next Thursday. 🎤 Mary Hladio, PMP ✈ 🤖 🎤 Maxime Dempah 🎤 Gil Makleff 📅 Date: October 24th, 2024 🕒 Time: 5:30-7:30 Central Time 📍 Location: Innovation Portal, 358 St. Louis Street, Mobile, AL, 36602, USA We would love to meet you there in person, or you can join us online if you aren't in the area! REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/eRShnpCY Join us for an engaging and insightful event where these thought leaders will share their expertise and experiences around AI!

This Wednesday is Coffee Chat! Come hear from Delilah Null, founder of Black Girl's Healing House at 830 AM on October 16! RSVP https://lnkd.in/etK-eRsQ or join us live on Facebook if you can't make it! Delilah Null is a founder, wellness innovator, and passionate advocate for accessible mental health. She began her entrepreneurial journey by creating Black Girl’s Healing House, transforming a Facebook community into a thriving venture dedicated to making mental health and wellness more accessible for Black women. Driven by a commitment to bridge the gap between Black women and wellness, Delilah has become a thought leader and changemaker at the forefront of the Black wellness movement. Her tireless efforts to create innovative and meaningful solutions have been recognized in publications such as Essence, Black Enterprise, AfroTech, Blavity, and more. She continues to lead with a focus on empowering others, fostering growth, and making a lasting impact in wellness spaces. As a founder, Delilah has mastered the art of navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurship with creativity, resilience, and an unwavering belief in the power of community. #CoffeeChats #Entrepreneurship #GetStarted #MobileAL #entrepreneurship

Slyngshot AI is LIVE!!! Three years of research, 100s of orgs, and thousands of entrepreneurs have helped us create a one-of-a-kind business building engine. Slyngshot AI puts MBA level business superpowers at your fingertips (iOS & android). Anyone with an idea can now create, build, and validate entire companies in a matter of minutes with real time data. Slyngshot AI is inspired by and dedicated to the countless friends who have great ideas, but never knew where to start. This is that first step! We can't wait to help you launch your ideas. 😊 https://lnkd.in/g8WKPrdN

Check out this morning's conversation about Alabama's State Small Business Credit Initiative Program with Innovate Alabama's Charlie Pond! https://lnkd.in/eHfwdSwu

Tomorrow's a big day at Innovation Portal! We're hosting EDPA's Coffee & Collisions and our first ever Intro to 3D Modeling Seminar as we add 3D printing and prototyping solutions to our offerings! --Coffee & Collisions with Charlie Pond, Innovate Alabama Although we’ve already had a Coffee Chat for September, we’re bringing you another conversation around coffee this Thursday, September 26th at 8:30. Charlie Pond, the new Executive Director of SSBCI at Innovation Alabama will join us to discuss how the State Small Business Credit Initiative Program is getting money into the hands on entrepreneurs across the state. Whether you’re a business owner or someone who supports local businesses, come hear how Innovate Alabama and SSBCI is supporting business growth by getting money into the hands of entrepreneurs across the state. --Free 3D Modeling Seminar with Braxton Daw, Innovation Portal Come join us for a free 3D modeling seminar! Open to everyone who is interested at no charge. It will be hosted at Innovation Portal in the Large Flex space on Thursday, September 26th from 5pm-6:30pm. SIGN UP: tinyurl.com/Portal3D Please bring a laptop and mouse and be sure to have an email you can use to make a free TinkerCAD account!If you have any questions, please reach out to Braxton Daw. Email: [email protected] We hope to see you there!

Don't forget to RSVP for tomorrow's Coffee Chat with David Morris, Founder of QB Country! RSVP at https://lnkd.in/etK-eRsQ and join us at 8:30 tomorrow morning! #GetStarted #entrepreneurship #MobileAL #CoffeeChats #Entrepreneurship

Coffee Chats Founder Stories with David Morris, QB Country At Innovation Portal, we meet business founders every day whose stories need to be heard. Every founder story is unique because every founder is unique and everyone deserves to tell their story.   Our 2024 coffee chats are highly focused on telling the stories of our founders here in our region. Entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of our organization and we are only as successful as they are. Join us every third Wednesday at Innovation Portal and be a part of the entrepreneurial journey that impacts the stories of the incredible founders we have right here in our region. Meet this month's Founders: David Morris David Morris is the founder of QB Country, the nation’s leading quarterback training and development company. QB Country currently trains NFL, college, high school and middle school quarterbacks in twelve cities across America, with headquarters in Mobile, AL. David founded QB Country in 2010 after seven years of part-time private quarterback training. A four-year letterman and graduate of the University of Mississippi, David became the first true freshman walk-on quarterback to start in the SEC. David’s NFL trainees include his Ole Miss teammate and two-time Super Bowl champion Eli Manning, Giants QB Daniel Jones, Raiders QB Gardner Minshew, Patriots QB Bailey Zappe, Bengals QB and former Alabama Crimson Tide star AJ McCarron, Texans QB Davis Mills, and numerous others. Nearly 20 QB Country trainees are or have been NFL starters. Since 2011, QB Country-trained college quarterbacks have won six National Championships. Currently, 156 QBC trainees are playing college football. Under David’s guidance, more than 240 QB Country high school trainees have signed college scholarships over the last seven graduating classes including 36 QBs signing scholarships in the 2022 signing class. David is widely respected as one of the most influential voices in quarterback development and an expert on preparation for the NFL Draft. His 2024 NFL Draft Prep class includes Heisman finalist Bo Nix and UNC star Drake Maye. He has appeared regularly on a variety of regional and national media outlets for his insights and expertise on the quarterback position, including the Wall Street Journal, ESPN, CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Bleacher Report, The New York Times and New York Daily News. He is a featured speaker at The Manning Passing Academy, and the Andrews Institute Injuries in Football course. David currently resides in Mobile with his wife Blakely and their two daughters, Amelia and Meryl.

We are so excited for the launch of Florian ROBERT's new website for #SensorEasy If you are a #restaurant, take the guesswork out of your refrigeration monitoring by stepping in to this incredible, simple solution. Congratulations on the exciting launch from one of our recent gener8tor #gBetaGulfCoast grads!

This work isn't easy. It takes not just a team. Not just a community. It takes an ecosystem with lots of important organizations and people stepping up to play a role in moving this work forward! That's why we are proud to share that we are a recipient of the Innovate Alabama Tax Credit, a program that will allow us to better serve innovators in our community by providing essential tools, resources and opportunities that enable founders to elevate their companies. Learn more about the program here: https://lnkd.in/ePsqcDj8. 

Cohort programs like PortalFund:RISE and TechAcademy mean you don't have to pursue entrepreneurship by yourself! Check out this story from recent PortalFund:RISE cohort graduate, Stephany Garcia (Stephany G Garcia Henao), founder of Kafedi Coffee. If you're interested in learning how you can join our next cohort of entrepreneurs, visit https://lnkd.in/eZjY3DnK. TechAcademy at Innovation Portal begins September 3rd and applications for the ~20 cohort positions are open now! Thanks to a generous partnership with the Regions Foundation, this year we're doubling the space in our TechAcademy by adding a cohort built for contractors alongside our general business cohort. Additionally, this partnership allows us to provide up to $4000 participating company. Apply for our upcoming FREE 8-week program at https://lnkd.in/eZjY3DnK before Aug 5 to make sure you have the opportunity to grow your business with TechAcademy at Innovation Portal! Look out for more programs like these by following us and our new partnership MobileCan #GetStarted #TechAcademy #MobileAL #entrepreneurship #MobileCAN #MBDA #Entrepreneurship **This program was prepared by Innovation Portal using Federal funds under award MB23OBD0340330 from the Minority Development Business Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Minority Development Business Agency or the U.S. Department of Commerce.