Partner With OHUB
Build the Next Generation of Innovation Ecosystems
Bring trusted talent, startup, and economic mobility programs to the communities you serve.
OHUB works with companies, cities, institutions, investors, and faith-based leaders to build the systems behind inclusive growth: future-ready training, founder support, ecosystem activation, and pathways into high-growth careers and new wealth creation.
Partnership in Action
See How OHUB Partnerships
Create Results
The case studies below show how partners have worked with OHUB to move from ambition to execution: climate innovation pathways, enterprise skilling infrastructure, and founder capacity building. Scroll the proof, then start the conversation when you see the pattern that fits your goals.
U.S. Economic Development Administration
SCALING CLIMATE
INNOVATION Investment
Challenge
South Louisiana had strong climate-tech momentum, federal investment, and regional ambition, but early-stage founders needed a clearer pathway from technical support to capital, market visibility, and commercialization.
Our Work
Across a multi-year partnership, OHUB worked with the U.S. Economic Development Administration, H2theFuture, Climate Tech Bootcamp, and Greater New Orleans, Inc. to build a founder-to-capital pathway connecting underrepresented climate-tech founders to venture education, coaching, demo day preparation, investor exposure, and early-stage funding opportunities.
Results
OHUB trained more than 100 founders, with a focus on climate-tech ventures across Louisiana and the Southeast. The initiative awarded $400,000 through bi-annual $100,000 pitch competitions and helped generate more than $500,000 in follow-on investment, supporting new company formation, product development, and early job creation.
The Links, Incorporated
Expanding Wealth Creation Networks
Challenge
The Links, Incorporated is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations, with 16,000+ professional women across 292 chapters in 41 states, D.C., the Bahamas, and the United Kingdom. That reach represented extraordinary civic and professional capital, but the network needed a clear model to convert influence into structured pathways for ownership, investing, board service, startup support, and long-term wealth creation.
Our Work
OHUB partnered with The Links, Incorporated and 100 Black Angels & Allies Fund to launch a national multi-generational wealth creation initiative connecting members to angel investing, limited partner education, equity crowdfunding, startup advisory roles, board pathways, HBCU engagement, and early-stage capital access.
Results
The initiative created a national pathway for members to engage the technology, startup, and venture ecosystem through capital, careers, board service, and founder support.
IBM SkillsBuild
MOBILIZING TRUSTED
SKILLING WITH IBM
Challenge
IBM SkillsBuild expanded access to digital learning, but reaching underrepresented communities required more than an open platform. Learners needed trusted pathways, relevant content, and clearer connections from training into high-growth technology careers.
Our Work
IBM partnered with Opportunity Hub to expand access to digital skills training, job opportunities, and future-of-work content for underrepresented communities. OHUB served as a trusted talent pipeline for IBM’s new collar workforce initiatives, helping learners build the skills, confidence, and direction needed to pursue careers in the digital economy.
Results
The partnership aligned with IBM’s commitment to skill 30 million people globally by 2030 and OHUB’s mission to expand inclusive access to the technology economy. IBM also adopted OHUBNext content on the SkillsBuild platform, extending OHUB’s programming into a global learning environment. This work helped lay the foundation for a later gender equity initiative with GET Cities, connecting women of color to cybersecurity training, employer-recognized credentials, and clearer pathways into high-growth technology careers.
Activation Capital
Turning Founder Potential Into Investable Companies
Challenge
Central Virginia had strong entrepreneurial assets, but historically underinvested founders needed more direct support to move from early-stage ideas to venture-ready companies. The region needed a coordinated model for founder sourcing, venture education, mentorship, investor readiness, and early capital access.
Our Work
OHUB partnered with Activation Capital to design and execute a founder capacity-building pilot for historically underinvested, high-growth startups. The initiative combined founder sourcing, venture education, mentorship, investor readiness, demo day preparation, and a direct pathway to early capital.
Results
OHUB engaged 100 early-stage founders, supported 50 idea-stage companies through the bootcamp, and advanced the top 10 founders to Demo Day. The initiative culminated in a $50,000 investment commitment from Activation Capital and OHUB, demonstrating how targeted founder support can help move historically underinvested entrepreneurs from early-stage potential to capital readiness, stronger business formation, and broader economic mobility.
Revolution / Rise of the Rest
Expanding Founder
Capital Access
Challenge
Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest, the national startup platform created by the AOL co-founder and Revolution Chairman, has spent years proving that high-growth companies are being built beyond Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston. But historically underinvested founders in those markets still needed more direct access to venture preparation, investor visibility, and catalytic capital.
Our Work
OHUB partnered with Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, 100 Black Angels & Allies, and Morgan Stanley’s Multicultural Innovation Lab to adapt the Rise of the Rest platform into an Equity Edition. The initiative connected founders outside the major coastal tech hubs to national programming, pitch preparation, investor access, and a virtual capital pathway designed to surface high-potential companies from overlooked markets.
Results
The partnership culminated in a $2M virtual pitch event, with capital from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Morgan Stanley’s Multicultural Innovation Lab, plus co-investment from OHUB’s affiliate 100 Black Angels & Allies Fund. At the time of the announcement, Rise of the Rest had raised $300M to invest in seed-stage startups outside Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston and had already backed 150 startups across 70+ cities. Today, Revolution reports that Rise of the Rest has invested in 200+ startups across 100+ U.S. cities, while Revolution has invested nearly $2B across companies including Sweetgreen, CAVA, DraftKings, CLEAR, Tempus, and Anduril.
