Empowering Entrepreneurship for All.
It Is All About: Community. Programming. Connections.
The Avante Program is not rocket science; it’s about making world-class content, taught nationwide, accessible to everyone. It focuses on doing the hard work so that anyone can facilitate the program for others. At its core, the program builds a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem from the ground up that naturally supports new entrepreneurs.
A long time ago, to start the next great company, entrepreneurs needed to be in a major metropolitan city. Today, millions of rural and historically underserved entrepreneurs are starting companies across the country. The team behind Avante believes that everyone should have access to the same quality of entrepreneurship training no matter where you live, where you come from, or your economic background.
Avante is Built From Decades of Successful Programs
The Avante team never set out to build a National Accelerator Program. Instead, we focused on helping rural and underserved entrepreneurs in the heart of Appalachia. Leveraging our team’s experience from many startup accelerators, we put together our own program to help grow the innovation and startup ecosystem in and around Johnson City, Tennessee. The results were incredible. In fact, it was so successful other organizations began to reach out to see if they could license our program. Today, we are teaching communities, just like yours, how to implement and copy the success we have achieved.
By leveraging the Avante Accelerator Program, your organization will launch over 100 new businesses in the next few years. Best of all, your new startup ecosystem will continue to help these new businesses grow and thrive.
New Businesses
Tech Startups
Years
Run By Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs
We love local businesses. Our entire mission is to help your organizatio build hyper local and scalable businesses that utilize local resources. Our program is grounded in these values and will continue to thrive without the need to fear it will all change because of an acquisition.
About FoundersForge
The organization behind Avante is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that believes in underdog entrepreneurs and in helping them on their startup journeys. As a nonprofit our mission is to be the catalyst behind successful entrepreneurs. Our focus is to build startups in rural and underserved communities.
Empowering Communities, Not Exploiting Them
Our focus is not to sell an online financial platform, banking services, or get your local startups to use a 3rd party service. We are focused on helping you build local companies, that utilize local resources, and stay connected to your community. We won’t sell our platform to an online bank and we’re here to stay.
Mission Focused
Avante is extremely accessible for all regions because we are focused on our mission, not just revenue. As a nonprofit, we use any revenue we make to build new programs, improve our offering, and continue to accomplish our mission. We are here to stay and you do not have to worry about Avante being acquired, selling out, or changing to benefit a for profit company.