Bounce Innovation Hub

08/28/2026

🚨EXTENSION ALERT🚨

The NEOSVF Application deadline has been EXTENDED to next Friday, September 4 at noon for tech startups interested in joining the fall 2026 program.

Apply today: https://bouncehub.org/neosvf-application

NEOSVF is a Bounce-led program that brings together college students from across Northeast Ohio to gain real-world venture capital experience. Student teams evaluate regional technology startups, conduct due diligence and make investment recommendations, gaining hands-on exposure to early-stage companies, startup financing and the investment process.

08/27/2026

Meet your facilitator for next week's Beyond Startup Workshop: Julie Maurer!

Julie is the founder and President of SilverLine Consulting and has more than 15 years of experience in human resources, talent acquisition and organizational development. With her team, Julie provides straight-forward, efficient and measurable solutions, with a down to earth approach to start-ups and high growth companies.

Limited spots still available. Register now: https://BeyondStartupHardConversations.eventbrite.com

08/25/2026

You’re more than just your business at Bounce

Any Means Necessary is an apparel company with an unmistakable style that echoes their mission to create a space where people can wear their truth, embrace their struggles, and find strength in their darkest moments.

The team is housed inside Bounce and uses our unique, customizable Incubator spaces to their advantage to serve as both their design studio and shipping hub. Hints of our building’s industrial scenes are used as complementary backdrops to the gritty and authentic pieces found across their website’s product pages.

When your business has a space to thrive in, you can focus on growing your brand like Any Means. They’ve become into a major player in the apparel industry with collaborations like their Invincible line from the hit Amazon show, to appearing in national retailers like Zumiez.

Any Means is a great example for what your business is capable of at Bounce. We’d love to show you around our available office and manufacturing spaces: https://bouncehub.org/our-space

08/24/2026

The wait is almost over! Join us at Bounce this Wednesday, August 26 from 11-1 for food trucks!

Trucks will out front, rain or shine, so leave the leftovers at home and we'll see you on Wednesday!

Leave the leftovers at home!

Food Trucks are back once again next Wednesday, August 26! Here is the lineup that will be outside Bounce from 11-1:

Uncle Bacon's BBQ
Johnny Lóte’s Latin Street Corn
Birdies Food Truck

See you there!

08/21/2026

There’s a quiet milestone that doesn’t get much attention: the first time a startup hires someone whose entire job is to sell.

That’s where CoMarket is right now. They’re bringing on their first sales associate, ushering in a new era where their founder Jeffrey McCandless can stop selling everything himself and start building something that can grow without him in every conversation.

Getting to a first sales hire is hard, and most founders make that leap on instinct. CoMarket didn’t have to. Bounce funded half of a consulting engagement with Viking Sales Consultants, one of our preferred providers, to help CoMarket build a sales playbook and figure out whether they were ready to add a sales role. When CoMarket wrote the job description, it came from a real plan - not a guess.

Bounce is proud to support startups like CoMarket that leverage resources and make meaningful progress.

08/20/2026

Hard conversations are unavoidable as a business grows, but avoiding them often makes performance issues more costly.

In this interactive Beyond Startup workshop, founders and managers will learn how to prepare for difficult employee conversations, separate facts from assumptions, communicate expectations clearly, deliver candid feedback with less damage, navigate emotional reactions, and create accountability.

Register now: https://BeyondStartupHardConversations.eventbrite.com

08/19/2026

Thank you to our panelists from today's Beyond Startup on Funding and Why Money Matters! Attendees contributed to a productive conversation on funding avenues for startups & small businesses to grow and scale their business.

Please join us for our next Beyond Startup workshop happening on Wednesday, September 2! Registration: https://BeyondStartupHardConversations.eventbrite.com

08/19/2026

Bounce Innovation Hub will host the inaugural Synthe6 Materials Accelerator Demo Day on Thursday, September 24, 2026.

This is an exciting step for our founders in the first Synthe6 cohort as they will connect with investors, industry partners, prospective customers, and others who can accelerate commercialization through pilots, strategic partnerships, and commercialization.

Read more: https://bouncehub.org/blog/bounce-innovation-hub-host-inaugural-synthe6-materials-accelerator-demo-day-thursday-september

08/18/2026

Calling all Northeast Ohio tech startups! 📣

The Northeast Ohio Student Venture Fund (NEOSVF) is currently accepting applications through 5 pm on Friday, August 28nd for tech startups interested in joining the fall 2026 program.

NEOSVF is a student-led, non-profit venture capital organization that gives Northeast Ohio college students real-world investment experience for regional tech startups. This is done by teaching partners about the startups, early-stage financing, and the due diligence process.

Apply now: https://bouncehub.org/neosvf-application

08/17/2026

Leave the leftovers at home!

Food Trucks are back once again next Wednesday, August 26! Here is the lineup that will be outside Bounce from 11-1:

Uncle Bacon's BBQ
Johnny Lóte’s Latin Street Corn
Birdies Food Truck

See you there!