Arch Grants

Our Executive Director Gabe Angieri moderated a panel at INTERSECTION on “Why I Chose St. Louis to Start my Business.” Our esteemed panel of Arch Grants Founders included: - Candera T., Founder of Bask & Bloom Essentials - Shani Bennett, Co-Founder of Figozo - Angelica Harris, Founder of Top Tutors for Us - Timothy Luchini, Co-Founder of Intramotev Arch Grants champions the St. Louis area for startups. Why locate your business here? The takeaways from the discussion: Affordability - operating in the Midwest is a competitive advantage, almost a cheat code. Access to talent - students from Washington University in St. Louis and Saint Louis University and people with relevant corporate experience abound in #STL (example: Intramotev draws from WashU and Boeing) Capital can be trickier - at this point, high interest rates and a lack of liquidity is an issue across the board. Arch Grants can help make connections to capital. From the Midwest, companies can draw capital from St. Louis but also New York, Boston, San Francisco and elsewhere, and all those investors will talk about your business in their meetings and communities. So attracting capital can be hard work, but the process can generate positive word of mouth. The importance of preparation - be ready when your opportunity arises. If you’re referred to an investor, your preparation will reflect positively or negatively on you and the person who referred you to that investor. Tell a good story. Founders need to tell more authentic stories of both triumph and struggle. Tell the whole story and you’ll attract attention and fans. Be positive - St. Louis has so much going for it, and we need to present that fact often and create walking, talking ambassadors to further improve the narrative. Founders will go through adversity, even dark times. Take care of yourself and realize you’re not alone in facing challenges. Thanks to our panelists for the valuable discussion and INTERSECTION for the opportunity. #STL #ChampionTheBold #STLMade #MATI WashU In St. Louis For St. Louis

Shout out to the incredible St. Louis innovation ecosystem and thank you to thestl.com and Greater St. Louis, Inc. for this wonderful feature on what we're all about at HabiTerre! Community is critical to fostering innovations, whether that community is a global group of folks like us working to address the grand challenge of a changing climate through #climatesmartagriculture, or an incredible local community like St. Louis. Thanks also to Arch Grants for helping bring us to this community and to our friends at places like the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 39 North, GlobalSTL, BioSTL, Taylor Geospatial Institute, and T-REX for all your support. #AgTech #Sustainability #Scope3Emissions #Geospatial

I brag on our #STLmade #ecosystem a lot. I am proud of what we are building here. I drank the Bill Danforth koolaid many, many years ago and consider myself lucky to make a living carrying out the third vision point of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center - to build St. Louis as a #global center for #plantscience. In this work I meet and help connect and help steward innovators and ecosystem players in their journey to commercialization or expansion and 100 other things startups and other partners need. I get to connect and #collaborate with a lot of truly special people and super cool #tech. Often these folks become ambassadors of what we are doing here because it’s contagious. It’s inspiring. It’s a movement. Nick Reinke of HabiTerre is one of those leaders and visionaries. He helps us be better and think bigger as much as this ecosystem has ever helped his company. I am so thankful Arch Grants brought this amazing company into our orbit two years ago and am so incredibly excited about the possibility of their growth. 🌎🌱🚀 T-REX Taylor Geospatial Institute Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) #agtech #geospatial #CPG #carbon #data #innovation #farming #agriculture #STL #research #investment #Cultivar #leadership #ecosystembuilding #doers #dreamers #food #sustainability

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Thank you Robert F. Smith for amplifying the mission of GreaterHealth Pharmacy & Wellness. As you stated, Marcus and team are providing a lifeline for a community that has long been underserved. We are proud to have GreaterHealth in our 2023 Cohort. #STLMade

Check out this #STLMade article on deep science and technology company HabiTerre, a member of our 2022 Cohort. “The planet is on fire, and agriculture has a huge role to play,” says Nick Reinke, CEO. “In many ways, it’s viewed as either the potential savior or a major cause of climate change. If we do our job right, we can help to build a scalable marketplace for positive environmental outcomes in agriculture as a solution to a changing climate.” https://lnkd.in/gMt2xpKw

Tomorrow, be sure to check out Danielle's panel at the INTERSECTION Conference.

Congratulations Andrew! Well deserved. (AG 2018 Cohort)

Immunophotonics, Inc. is thrilled to have won the Startup World Cup St. Louis Regional finals. A big thank you to Emily Hemingway and her team at TechSTL for their hard work in organizing this remarkable event. You did an exceptional job! We also want to extend our gratitude to the judges—Vikram Lakhwara, Atul Kamra, Rick Holton, Jr., and Julia Campbell—for their valuable feedback and for taking the time from their busy schedules to support such a fantastic event. It was inspiring to witness so many talented startup companies and to enjoy their presentations. Silicon Valley here we come! Immunophotonics’ CEO, Lu Alleruzzo, is honored to represent the St. Louis region this October. Check out our website: www.immunophotonics.com #StartupWorldCup #SiliconValley #research #interventionaloncology #immunooncology #cancer #immunotherapy #Immunophotonics #clinicaltrials #innovation #abscopalize_it #oncology #oncologyresearch #interventionalradiology #medicaloncology #trials #healthcareexcellence #biotechnology #drugdevelopment #antibody #cancerimmunity #immunophotonics 

We could drone on and on about WingXpand… Congrats Michelle Madaras, James Barbieri, and team! (AG 2022 Cohort)