Scale Up Milwaukee Announces New SPARC Business Participants

Scale Up Milwaukee’s SPARC business accelerator announces participants for 5th cohort
23 woman- and minority-owned businesses taking part

MILWAUKEE – Scale Up Milwaukee’s fifth SPARC business accelerator program has launched and features 23 Black-, Hispanic-, and woman-owned businesses from the area that totaled $4.3 million in revenue last year, and that project 36 percent growth in 2021.

Programming is being held virtually and is focused on helping business owners recalibrate their approach to business amid the evolving economic and social landscapes impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as efforts to achieve greater levels of social justice. Weekly classes run through May, providing one-on-one access with program instructors and experts, with more than 30 hours of instruction.

Participating companies include:

• Ambrosia Events LLC
• Atach’d to Tomorrow’s
• Generation
• Back to the Basics Tutoring
• Be Green pro
• Clear Technology Solutions of Wisconsin
• Close to the Heart
• Cream City Print Lounge LLC
• Different Shades of Healing
• Directive
• EcoClean
• FIIT Perspective, LLC
• Foxxy Locs LLC
• Just Goods
• LionArt Media LLC
• MalamDoe - A Coworking Community for Women
• Minuteman Press Brookfield
• Parnell Accounting Solutions LLC
• Plethora Trading LLC
• Renew Medical Aesthetics
• Rivera & Associates, Inc.
• RMS Global Care LLC
• Rockstar Trucking
• Twisted Plants

For more information about SPARC and Scale Up Milwaukee, please visit scaleupmilwaukee.org.

About Scale Up Milwaukee: Scale Up Milwaukee, an initiative of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, is transforming the culture of growth in the greater Milwaukee area. We host impactful events and accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity.

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