
Main Street Ventures provided nearly $225,000 in equity-free funding to a collection of more than a dozen regional startups over the past three months.

Movers and makers are anywhere new ideas and creativity are flowing. And nowhere, these days, is there more flow than in the Greater Cincinnati start-up community. Nonprofits play a huge role in inspiring, funding and guiding start-up efforts – Cintrifuse, MORTAR, Main Street Ventures, among others – and area universities are also key players in this ecosystem. Below, we introduce a few, select faces working actively to make Cincinnati a powerful center for innovation and technology.