Bounce Innovation Hub was founded in January 2018 and is the region’s first open innovation hub serving northeast Ohio’s entrepreneurial and innovation community. Located in downtown Akron in a former B.F. Goodrich tire plant, the building comprises more than 300,000 square feet of coworking, creative, event and professional office space. With more than 50 organizations in the building, Bounce accounts for more than 250 people working and creating.

Bounce currently offers entrepreneurial programs for tech and non-tech companies.

Tech: technology incubator, software accelerator and the Iterator program in partnership with MAGNET. 

Non-tech: GROW (Generating Real Opportunity and Wealth), The Workshop: A Creative Co-op and the Iterator program. 

Bounce’s first floor, the Generator, is open to the public. It comprises 27,000 square feet, and includes coworking space and private offices; event and meeting space; The Workshop: A Creative Co-op; Remarkable Coffee and Cafe; and the state-of-the-art Esports Center.

Through in-house programs and community partnerships, Bounce serves more than 75 entrepreneurs and startups in northeast Ohio.