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"Can you Unlock It” is a digital platform that allows anyone to create a fun, shareable, personalized game for their loved one for their special occasion. How it works is the gift giver would log in to create a game, choose or create a secret word to unlock a digital puzzle, and generate clues leading to that secret word. The gift receiver is then sent personalized clues through text, social media, and emails where they would attempt to solve the puzzle via an interactive 3D model right from their device.

The Jean Boutique is a boutique that Caters to Women who wear the size 8-14. These women appear to have rounder bottoms and heavier bottom halves.

I'm Rebecca Spann, a Licensed Professional Counselor, Private Practice Owner, Founder of Mental Health Clinicians of Color in Grand Rapids and the Owner of Your Therapeutic Journey Apparel. I have a passion for making sure historically underrepresented communities have access to mental health care and de-stigmatizing mental health. I created Your Therapeutic Journey Apparel to further the message of normalizing mental health care and issues. My audience is both mental health providers and those wanting to advocate for mental health. My teeshirt designs are intentionally unique to start conversations that can inspire people to seek help or to normalize.

Platform allows service industry staff to share and monetize their local expertise with customers they encounter daily

We want to transform our Ghost Kitchen into a Food Truck in order to operate more days of the week & serve a wider variety of areas.

Flavorful, satisfying, grab-and-go meals that excite the tastebuds and happens to be healthy and 100% plant-based.

The Designed Insight App was created with minority college students in mind but empowers all students with real time solutions and access to college resources at their fingertips.

Hello! I am BeAnka and the name of my business is Caring for Children of Color. I created a product called the “Culture Box” that assist transracial foster and adoptive families in the daily hair and skin care of their children of Color.

Our vision is to make well-being accessible to underserved communities. Mindset will create brands, develop technologies and design products to provide affordable access to mental, physical and financial health. While our product roadmap encompasses a holistic view of a well-balanced life, we believe access to affordable, healthy food is the foundation.

I want to create a cruelty-free, vegan, natural and sustainable skin care line made in Norton Shores, MI.

I'd like to bring a nutrition club to the Kellogg-Kentwood area to promote healthier lifestyle/eating habits by offering nutritional meal replacements, metabolism booting teas, and many more.

The pandemic has caused much isolation and anxiety. Art is a great therapeutic way to release internal, creative ideas onto paper or canvas. I wish to provide novice artists of all ages an opportunity to virtually get creative and express their dreams and ideas.

Thigdu is mission of seeing denim waste as raw material and representing a new opportunity to design a circular system and give a new life to pre-and post-consumer denim waste. Along with being a sustainable company, Thigdu is going to launch with offering a range of lifestyle products as well as home décor products, all handmade by underprivileged women artisans from across India.

Create landscape designs for homeowners to install themselves.

Noble Strong Training would like to purchase three portable basketball shooting machines as another way to build revenue for the company! Basketball shooting guns are machines that automatically pass the basketball back to the person who is shooting the basketball. With a portable shooting gun you can pack them for travel. We would be able to charge by the hour as well as take them to camps with us. Also we will be able to help hour local athletes become dynamic shooters!

Eye catching multi functional hand sanitizer dispensers with a mobile app.

Most men are in PAIN...But I know the secret to a PAIN-FREE lifestyle. I will share those secrets with my Bricks & Sticks: mobility program.

Tamales made from 100% from scratch. So delicious and authentic, they deserve to be in your local freezer section.

My Carbon Counter helps people build planet-friendly habits to curb climate change. Users can measure, track, and build habits from a library of simple lifestyle shifts.

Delicious, healthy and fresh meals made in Grand Rapids, delivered right to your home or office.

JustAir provides local air pollution monitoring solutions to cities to bring greater transparency into the disparities of air quality among our communities.

I HAVE A SEASONED SALSA IT IS A BLENED RECIPE WITH ALOT OF FLAVOR IT CAN BE USE TO COOK WITH AND TO EAT WITH CHIPS , CAN ALSO MAKE A FAT FREE DRESSING AND SANDWICH SPEARDS I HAVE THE MILD MEDIUM AND HOT , ALSO HAVE THREE GREEN SALSA ,JALAPENO , TOMATILLO , GREEN CHILI .