RE-INTRODUCING AVIATRA ACCELERATORS DAYTON
With Presence in Dayton Arcade, Aviatra is Full-Speed Ahead Working In-Person with Women Entrepreneurs
DAYTON, OH – June 16, 2021 - Aviatra Accelerators, a non-profit accelerator focused on empowering women entrepreneurs, expanded to Dayton just prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. It announced its first brick-and-mortar Dayton office in the redeveloped Dayton Arcade in early 2021, as the Cincinnati-based organization celebrated its ten-year anniversary, and has been virtually running its EXPLORE® and GROW® programming since then. Today, Aviatra officially unveiled its Dayton Arcade office space to the region’s female entrepreneurs and partners including Launch Dayton, Entrepreneurs Center, The Hub Small Business Development Center and Dayton Chamber of Commerce. Aviatra’s new office space takes advantage of all the resources of the Dayton Arcade, including meeting space at The Hub, for its education-based curriculum.
“Dayton is a hotbed of entrepreneurship and the Dayton Arcade is ground-zero for the startup business ecosystem”, said Nancy Aichholz, President and CEO of Aviatra Accelerators, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky. “The energy and collaborative opportunities that exist here position Aviatra ideally to help women entrepreneurs succeed”, she continued. True to its resiliency and that of Dayton’s women entrepreneurs, Aviatra persevered throughout the pandemic, holding virtual programming and workshops and focused efforts around additional partnerships and sponsorships in the region with Pamela Cone, Aviatra’s Market Director, at the helm.
Aviatra’s EXPLORE®, is an early stage ideation and business validation program; LAUNCH® is a traditional accelerator program for young businesses moving to the next level that need to secure funding, and GROW® is ongoing sustainability programming. Aviatra also offers a digital, online platform of curriculum called Aviatra365. Aviatra Dayton’s advisory board includes professionals from The Collaboratory, Dayton Chamber of Commerce, WiBN/Women in Christian Leadership and Aviatra’s Inaugural Sponsor and Advisory Council Chair Robin Gentry McGee, Founder of Functional Formularies, who is an Aviatra graduate.
Aviatra’s first in-person GROW workshop with Jenny Dewberry, CEO of People-Power, is scheduled for June 28, 6-8pm at the Dayton Arcade. For more information about the workshop on professional development or to register, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/june-grow-workshop-up-a-notch-tickets-158055110089?aff=erelpanelorg
About Aviatra Accelerators
Celebrating ten-years of supporting women on the rise find the power to soar, Aviatra Accelerators, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, exists to empower female entrepreneurs, providing education, coaching, mentoring, networking and access to capital. Aviatra’s programs are tailored to meet the needs of women entrepreneurs at all stages of the business cycle. With a presence in Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, Aviatra Accelerators has helped over 2,500 female entrepreneurs create 15,000 jobs, has awarded millions in funding, and its entrepreneurs have generated a cumulative total of over $1 billion in earned revenues. For more about Aviatra and its female entrepreneur success stories, visit, https://aviatraaccelerators.org.
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