Northern Lakes Financial Alliance launches Innovation Alliance | Enterprise
3 min readBOYNE Town — The Northern Lakes Economic Alliance has proven the Innovation Alliance, a new move to improve and develop business enterprise tips in northern Michigan.
The NLEA and Traverse Town-based mostly Arrowhead Incubator, Inc. are partnering on the new program’s 1st occasion to provide “Indigenous entrepreneurs with the area to improve their business concepts and obtain cash,” according to a launch.
Labeled as ‘Indigepreneurs,’ NLEA and Arrowhead Incubator, Inc. will keep an invitation-only occasion Sept. 8 from 3-6 p.m. The celebration will be held at the NLEA workplaces, in the Charlevoix-Emmet (Char-Em) Intermediate University District at 1313 Boyne Ave.
Those interested in the event must finish an online interest variety by Sept. 1. The online type is available at https://tinyurl.com/NLRendezvous.
The Northern Lakes Rendezvous Alliance is an occasion for Indigenous business owners “to pitch their products, products and services, and business enterprise strategies without the need of the phase and the lights,” according to a launch. The target is to “bolster Indigenous company owners’ specialist connections, offer obtain to early-stage funding, and foster relationships involving other progressive inventors and buyers,” according to the release.
The Rendezvous Alliance celebration is seeking for organizations included in:
- Value-added agriculture
- Out of doors recreation
- Technological know-how
- Recycle/upcycle
- Exploration and improvement
- Manufacturing
Indigenous-owned businesses who live or operate in the NLEA support location (Antrim, Charlevoix and Cheboygan) are welcome to use. NLEA and Arrowhead are also encouraging purposes from Emmet County.
Much more info on the public/personal nonprofit NLEA is available at northernlakes.web. Much more details on the 501©(3) Arrowhead Incubator is accessible at ahin.org.
The Sept. 8 function is the 1st for the new Northern Lakes Innovation Alliance.
“That’s what we’re contacting our new software,” claimed Angie Ross, NLEA Business enterprise Attraction and Advancement Professional. “Because of COVID and just lifestyle issues, we’re putting a new spin on our Pitch Evenings.”
Ross explained just about every county has held once-a-year Pitch Night time gatherings in the past, but many have been postponed the final two years. The Innovation Alliance will conclude up assisting additional get started-ups in the extensive run, Ross explained.
“We’re heading to check out to enable far more corporations,” Ross claimed. “There will be smaller sized venues and scaled-down awards, but additional organizations will obtain awards.”
The NLEA will host quite a few extra invitation-only functions following the Sept. 8 celebration. Innovation Alliance gatherings will be far more than pitch presentations.
“It also gives connections within just the NLEA business enterprise, useful resource and financing networks as properly as obtain to early-phase funding and the opportunity to satisfy other inventors and buyers,” the release stated. “The Innovation Alliance software is built to cultivate a tradition of innovation and issue-fixing all through northern Michigan.”
NLEA will host invitation-only situations to listen to additional about just about every business’ strategies. Sign up for the method to meet with like-minded people who are centered on innovation and entrepreneurship.
Enterprises or people in Antrim, Charlevoix and Cheboygan counties can sign-up on line at northernlakes.internet/innovation-alliance. Registrants will be invited to be part of the new application and agenda a date to meet up with and talk about their business enterprise suggestions.
Fiscal aid for Northern Lakes Innovation Alliance comes from the DTE Basis and Buyers Strength.
The NLEA was proven in 1984.
