Our Sponsors
Meridian Bank strives to strengthen and grow the communities they serve. Meridian partners with businesses, organizations and municipalities to enhance local economies to build thriving communities, support charities and make a difference.
Partners
The Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce, a membership based not-for-profit, is the leading business organization focused on helping you make effective community and business contacts. Centrally located in the heart of Chester County, our networking, marketing and advertising opportunities will be the foundation for new business for your company. Let us show you how.
Ideas x Innovation Network (i2n), supports emerging growth businesses in life sciences, energy, and information technology by leveraging the assets of business partners and academic institutions and creating a network of physical and virtual resources. Specific resources for entrepreneurial companies include mentoring, legal, human resources, accounting, financing, training, real estate, links to university technology transfer and product commercialization opportunities, networking and industry-targeted programs
SCORE, Business advice you can trust. Experience you can use.
Free Mentoring: With over 100 members representing hundreds of years of business experience, SCORE business professionals offer free mentoring that will help your business succeed. Each SCORE member is dedicated to delivering,valuable, timely and practical business advice. There is no charge for mentoring,no matter how many sessions are needed. Each session lasts about an hour, but the results last a lifetime.
Workshops + Events: SCORE provides an extensive variety of regularly scheduled free or low cost business workshops and seminars. From basic sessions on how to start and grow a business to hands on financial exercises, all workshops and seminars are designed to help you establish and grow a successful business.
Keiretsu Forum is a conglomeration of serious investors, business leaders, venture capitalists, corporate/institutional investors and serial entrepreneurs bound by the goals of working together for each other’s mutual benefit, forming strategic partnerships, enhancing each other’s knowledge, building an angel network of diverse skills, and to access promising angel investment opportunities around the world.
With nearly 2,500 accredited investor members dispersed throughout 46 chapters on three continents, Keiretsu Forum is the world’s largest and most successful accredited investor - private equity community. Since Keiretsu Forum's founding in 2000, its members have invested more than $530 million in 450+ different companies from a myriad of industries, including software, telecommunications, health/life sciences, biotech, real estate, mobile applications, Internet, consumer products and other high growth areas.
The Dr. Edwin Cottrell Entrepreneurial Leadership Center, a center of the College of Business and Public Management at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, serves as a catalyst for regional economic development by promoting entrepreneurship at West Chester University, in Chester County, and throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania
The Dr. Edwin Cottrell Entrepreneurial Leadership Center inspires students to engage in entrepreneurial ventures by exposing them first hand to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial environments, promotes entrepreneurship literacy, and fosters economic development in Chester County and throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania.