Cultivating business and skills
to reach the top		  
Cima Technology Center is a Latino Development and Business Accelerator Center managed
by Battelle and Wright College's Humboldt Park Vocational Education Center.

 
 

Cima as a Business Accelerator

 

We’ve challenged ourselves to set new and young small technology companies on the path to sustainability. We see business acceleration and incubation as a process during which emerging commercial entities receive support when they are most vulnerable to failure. By housing and nurturing young firms, we can help them grow during start-up.

Services

Cima provides companies with hands-on management assistance, access to financing, technical support, and mentoring and partnership relationships. We will tailor the services we offer companies based on their individual needs and market sectors.

In addition, Cima also provides shared office services, access to basic laboratory equipment, flexible leases, and expandable space for tenant firms.

Contact us to learn more about our business acceleration and incubation and training programs.

Anthony Gillespie, Executive Director

(216) 513-3011

gillespiea@battelle.org

Jean Noethlich, Program Coordinator

(630) 995-6360

noethlichj@battelle.org


 
 
 
   

 

Baseline services may include:

  • Facilitating a company’s access to publicly funded technology
  • Assessing the technology base of a new company
  • Defining a company’s value proposition and business plan
  • Researching potential market sizes, trends, and conditions
  • Defining markets in which a small company could compete
  • Identifying appropriate management team personnel
  • Establishing business-to-business relationships and strategic partnerships
  • Understanding and explaining available sources of funding
  • Coaching entrepreneurs to present to investors
  • Reviewing proposals for grant funding