Success Stories

DEVELOPING A DREAM INTO ONE OF OHIO’S FASTEST GROWING WINE COMPANIES Marisa Sergi is a third-generation winemaker and one of the forces behind Red’s and L’uva Bella Winery. Her family, of course, lent their support and wine-making expertise, but Sergi wanted to make it her mission to understand the business behind making a good bottle…

A COLLEGE INTERNSHIP THAT FUELED A GLOBAL ASSET ACQUISITION Rich Wetzel, CEO and co-founder of Freshmade 3D, started out at the YBI in 2014 as an entrepreneurship intern, before becoming a business coordinator in the additive manufacturing (AM) department, and that AM exposure blossomed into his first startup Freshmade 3D. “We’re so proud to be…

AI FOR THE WIN: ELEVATING THERAPY SERVICES FOR KIDS Clinician-driven technology can truly support care delivery AND care experience. – Lindsay Watson PT, MPT Augment Therapy was founded in 2017 by CEO Lindsay Watson, a pediatric physical therapist who was searching for a way to solve common problems in her own physical therapy practice –…