About
COED is a business generator serving the greater Columbus area, created to support Black entrepreneurs in overcoming the unique barriers they face in building thriving businesses. Our model meets every business owner where they are on their journey, fortifying them with a community of support, increasing access and exposure, focused on transformational change. COED honors the legacy and visionary leadership of some of the greatest entrepreneurs the city of Columbus has produced.
COED is boldly pursuing pathways to expand the possibilities for entrepreneurs in Columbus and beyond at a time when ensuring equitable opportunities for Black-owned businesses matters more than ever. Black entrepreneurs require more than symbols of hope at this critical time. They need institutions to manufacture it. COED will do our part to help create and accelerate opportunities for Black business owners. When they feel cut off from opportunities and support, we bring them into a family of dynamic people like them, with the curriculum, coaching, co-working, connections and capital to help ensure they prosper, not just survive. Too many Black-owned businesses are systematically cut off from the capital they need.
Not here.
Through our relationships with banks, venture capital funds, angel investors, and community development financial institutions we can help you break through the single biggest barrier to Black entrepreneurship.
Key Initiatives
Meeting Spaces: COED offers meeting spaces for all your business needs. The maximum capacity for each meeting space is adjusted to satisfy the safety guidelines of 6 feet apart for social distancing as required by Franklin County , the CDC, and the City of Columbus.
Resources: Through our Business Resource Suite, COED offers informational webinars, strategy huddle sessions, virtual classrooms and individualized coaching sessions. There are hundreds of minority-owned businesses and entrepreneurs in the COED network; we are providing them with critical information, access to resources and world-class expertise needed to keep businesses afloat and give entrepeneurs the tools for true economic mobility.sses at every stage of their development journey.
Urban Marketplace: COED offers opportunities for minority-owned businesses and entrepreneurs to rent office and retail space at a reasonable rate. COED will continue to assist these businesses with advertising and marketing strategies to enhance their probability of success.
Meeting Places & Studio
Conference Center
Max Capacity: 200
Time: 2-Hour Min
Standard Rate: $300
Member Rate: $240
CoED Think Tank
Max Capacity: 12
Time: 1-Hour Min
Standard Rate: $60
Member Rate: $30
Computer Lab
Max Capacity: 20
Time: 1-Hour Min
Standard Rate: $80
Member Rate: $40
CoED Classroom
Max Capacity: 20
Time: 1-Hour Min
Standard Rate: $80
Member Rate: $40
Executive Board Room
Max Capacity: 12
Time: 1-Hour Min
Standard Rate: $60
Member Rate: $30
Private Office
Max Capacity: 3
Time: 1-Hour Min
Standard Rate: $30
Member Rate: $15
CoED Resource Partners
Urban Marketing Place
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide impactful support to minority and underserved entrepreneurs that wish to create and grow scalable, profitable and sustainable business ventures by facilitating greater access to education, capital and viable resources.
