Entrepreneur Profile: Pamela Derr

Chips & Doodles Pamela Derr started small-batch bakery Chips & Doodles after years building a reputation – the cookies she made for her husband’s customers always won rave reviews. As her children grew, it evolved into bringing a piece of read more...

Entrepreneur Profile: Alex Sejdinaj

South Bend Code School, South Bend Code Works & Give Grove From a young age, Alex Sejdinaj wanted to help make the world a better place. For a long time, she thought that meant becoming a doctor. It wasn’t until read more...

Entrepreneur Profile: Chris Merrill

Entrepreneur Profile: Chris Merrill Adapta Education Chris Merrill wasn’t necessarily setting out to become an entrepreneur. What started with his background as a high school educator, an idea while on vacation and a serendipitous graduate school connection grew into Adapta read more...

Entrepreneur Profile: Adell Badgett

Entrepreneur Profile: Adell Badgett Dellstar VR Entrepreneur Adell Badgett sees plenty of opportunities for the technology behind VR – or virtual reality – gaming. His company, Dellstar VR, looks to not only provide fun and entertainment, but also address the read more...

Entrepreneur Profile: Ray Fraser

Entrepreneur Profile: Ray Fraser VitalView Technologies Ray Fraser is a serial entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO at his sixth start-up, VitalView Technologies. The company brings patient monitoring into the home with a contactless sensor platform keeping eye on heart read more...

Entrepreneur Profile: Ray Fraser

Ray Fraser is a serial entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO at his sixth start-up, VitalView Technologies. The company brings patient monitoring into the home with a contactless sensor platform keeping eye on heart failure patients. This potentially life-changing technology read more...

Entrepreneur Profile: Maricela Navarro

Maricela Navarro Oxfox Carriers Logistics and trucking have been a traditionally male-dominated industries. Maricela Navarro is an exception – a female founder of a trucking company. Oxfox Carriers is based in South Bend. The small transportation company runs freight across read more...

South Bend – Elkhart Regional Partnership Celebrates HustleSBE Cohort Six Graduation

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (Jun. 7, 2023) — The South Bend – Elkhart Regional Partnership celebrated the graduation of its sixth HustleSBE cohort. The business bootcamp provides support and assistance to minority and women entrepreneurs across the five-county region. This eight-session program is read more...

Entrepreneur Profile: Riley Ellingsen

Entrepreneur Profile: Riley Ellingsen heARsight  From Medicine to Entrepreneurship Riley Ellingsen comes from a family of doctors and lawyers, inspiring him to take a pre-med track during his undergraduate studies at Whitman College in Washington state. After graduating Whitman in read more...

Entrepreneur Profile: Rachel Mospan

Entrepreneur Profile: Rachel Mospan Rachel Mospan Design When Rachel Mospan decided to take the plunge and start her own interior design firm in 2021, she knew the driving ethos behind her new business. After years of hobbyist design, she wanted read more...