Meet the 2018 Graduates of the Ascend 2020 Program
Project 500 DC is proud to engage and assist so many inspiring New Majority entrepreneurs.
Here is a list of the latest members to successfully complete the 8-week program, complete with Certificate from Georgetown University.
Aalia Network LLC, is a diversified media consulting form and video production company which began operation in 2008. The company produces an array of genres ranging from short form documentaries,, television talk shows, corporate promotional work, and public service announcements.
Arena Material Solutions LLC mission is to provide office and cleaning supply products and equipment to our customers with exceptional customer service tailored to their needs.
Emotive Architecture, PLLC is an architectural firm located in Northwest Washington, DC. It’s mission is to provide a dynamic range of high quality architectural services to small and medium sized clients, beyond their expectations, while simultaneously affecting the built environment, through direct engagement with the user and indirectly through the positive integration of our buildings within the environment. Emotive Architecture takes pride in building communities and fostering relationships through creating spatial environments for all people in the social spectrum.
Insight Engineering, established in 1991, provides design and management services for the creation of cost effective, practical, aesthetic and environmentally sound projects to public and private sector customers.
Liivvee — is a digital streaming platform as a service that brings viewer interactivity and e-commerce to digital content. Our augmented intelligence provides shoppable digital content to viewers while allowing creators to interact with their audiences in real time. We deliver more meaningful content to viewers by offering purchases at the point of influence.
LOTUS Fitness’s fundamental philosophy is based on the concept that wellness, as it relates to complete health and well-being, is a combination of conscious and self-directed behaviors, focused upon living at one’ fullest potential. Regular exercise, healthy nutrition and the absence of disease or illness help to form the foundation of a complete state of wellness. LOTUS Fitness provides comprehensive solutions for focused, active engagement in physical activity, customized nutritional counseling and a supportive environment where all participants meet their fitness and wellness goals.
Royelles is a fully immersive, digital-first play experience for girls. Our multi-channel platform intersects emerging tech + innovation + visual storytelling to bring play to the 21st century. Our mission is to ignite and empower one million girls and young women to value authenticity and boldly pursue all that is possible for them, particularly around leadership, entrepreneurship and STEM-focused life paths.
Smith & Sons, LLC is a 34-year old licensed and bonded infrastructure company, headquartered in Washington, DC. SSLLC has three divisions: Site Utilities, Facility Maintenance, and Security Solutions. Each division provides vital infrastructure products and services that enable our customers to serve their constituents. Our innovations include active shooter detection, cost reduction in facilities with lock & key management and a solar powered storage for device that charges any electronic device. Our target market is State & Local Government, Commercial & Prime Contractors.
Southeastern Roastery, the wholesale coffee brand of Southeastern Roast and Brewery, started in 2016 with roots in Isle of Wight, Virginia and Washington D.C. Beautifully southern, it is committed to promoting the cultural exchange, open dialogue, and collective creativity that coffee communion has historically and internationally nurtured. Southeastern Roastery unabashedly continues in this warm and tradition by offering fresh, high quality, specialty coffee and sharing inspiring roasts in love.
TomahWares is a Washington, DC-based, woman and minority-owned, creative storytelling agency that specializes in visual storytelling, branding, marketing, and design. Our clients include DC’s Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB), Office of Unified Communications (OUC), DC Commission on Arts and Humanities (CAH), Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), The Washington Post, Tigerlily Foundation, St. Elizabeth’s East, East River Family Strenghtening Collaborative (ERFSC), to name a few.
Urban Playology LLC is a boutique private practice in DuPont Circle. We provide transformative psychotherapy and expressive arts therapies to outliers, unique families, & LGBTIQA folk. We are a safe haven from the storm of not fitting in. Out magical tribe is a thriving community growing one outlier at a time.
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Project 500™ is a business development program whose mission is to accelerate new majority entrepreneurs from high potential to high growth. Our goal is to recruit and retain at least 500 diverse businesses to receive skills training, capacity building, mentoring and networking to advance the economic success of their businesses and their communities.
