2026 Colorado Signature Cohort Participants!
The 2026 SEA Change Colorado Cohort is officially underway! Meet the 14 Social Entrepreneurs who were selected to build, refine, and grow their Social Enterprises over the next 16 weeks.
Their journey will culminate in a grand finale celebration on Tuesday, December 15, 2026. After two years of virtual events, this will be the first in-person Colorado Showcase! We can’t wait to celebrate their hard work with you, live and in the room. Early bird tickets are available now—RSVP.
2026 Colorado Ventures
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The Women's Sports Living Room is Fort Collins' first dedicated women's sports venue, an all-day café, co-working space, and bar built around women's sports culture and the community that loves it. We open at 7am as a café and co-working space, and shift into a watch party destination at night with women's sports on every screen, all the time.
The space is intentionally designed to be inclusive and welcoming for everyone, especially women, queer, and trans folks who are often underserved or actively unwelcome in traditional sports bars. We generate revenue through café sales, a bar program, community memberships, ticketed events, and brand partnerships. This is the first venue of its kind between Denver and Wyoming.
City: Fort Collins, CO
Founder: Roni Lockwood -
Classopoly is a year-long digital classroom economy that teaches middle school students personal financial literacy while helping teachers manage their classrooms. Students hold jobs, earn paychecks, pay rent, build credit, borrow, save, and give — and live with the consequences across a full school year rather than a two-week unit.
We have the core app built and tested with pilot classrooms, completed a professional UI/UX audit this summer, and are using AI-assisted development to move faster on a small budget. Our free tier stays free forever for any teacher; the paid tier funds the long-term goal of financial-institution sponsorship that puts the full product into lower-income classrooms at no cost. We are moving from testing into real adoption and first paying customers this school year.
City: Littleton, CO
Founder: Joi Lin
LinkedIn: classopoly
Instagram: @classopoly
Facebook: classopoly
Website: classopolyeducation.com -
Jace’s Place empowers youth, teens, and young adults through meaningful mentorship, life skills coaching, and real-world community experiences. Our inclusive, relationship-based program helps each individual discover their strengths, build confidence, develop greater independence, and create meaningful connections.
Whether someone has a disability or simply needs extra guidance navigating life, Jace’s Place provides a supportive environment where everyone can grow, belong, and thrive.
City: Pueblo, CO
Founder: Monica Martinez
Instagram: @jaces_place_llc
Facebook: JacesPlaceLLC
Website: jacesplace.org -
Level Up Cowork & Creation Center is a community-driven space designed to help people work, create, connect, and grow. We provide flexible coworking spaces, private offices, creative spaces, and innovative wellness technology experiences that support both personal and professional growth.
Our mission is to bring together entrepreneurs, professionals, educators, creatives, and community members in an environment where productivity, collaboration, and wellbeing thrive together. Through meaningful connections, educational opportunities, and wellness-focused experiences, Level Up helps people move from where they are to where they want to be. We believe when people have the right space, resources, and community around them, they can truly level up.
City: Pueblo, CO
Founder: Meral Jones
LinkedIn: level-up-cowork-and-creation-center
Instagram: @levelupcoworkcreationcenter
Facebook: levelupcoworkcreationcenter
YouTube: @levelupcowork
Website: levelupcowork.com -
Mainn makes fundraising easier for school PTOs through local business partnerships, while giving local businesses a more effective way to reach new customers than typical digital marketing.
Local businesses already spend heavily to reach families in their community, and most of that money leaves the community for platforms like Meta and Google with little proof of ROI for the business. Mainn redirects marketing spend back to the community, providing funding for schools and clear ROI for businesses.
With Mainn, businesses commit budgets similar to how they would hire an agency, with a dedicated amount committed to schools in lieu of "ad spend", and Mainn earning a service fee quoted on top with guaranteed results (e.g. a business may commit $5K to schools with a $1K flat service fee to Mainn on top for a $6K total budget with set goals/objectives built in.).
We went live last fall with a few early adopter schools and businesses that transacted nearly $100K through our platform, and we've been gearing up for our first full push this new school year.
City: Fort Collins, CO
Founder: Eric McClure
LinkedIn: Mainn
Website: mainn.co -
MosaiCQ Consulting is a boutique, human-centered organizational effectiveness practice that helps mission-driven organizations build inclusive, accessible and equity-rooted organizational cultures.
We work with executive teams and staff to move beyond surface-level, compliance-oriented DEI work into deeper culture change — using frameworks such as the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), cultural humility, and trauma-informed engagement to address the root causes of harm, burnout, and exclusion. Our clients are nonprofits and public entities that want their internal culture to actually reflect the equity values they espouse externally.
MosaiCQ exists because too many organizations doing good work in the world are quietly reproducing the same harmful patterns internally that they're trying to disrupt externally.
City: Westminster, CO
Founder: Lyncy Yang
Website: mosaicqconsulting.com -
Perpetual Harvest is a sustainability strategy and organizational development consulting firm that helps organizations cultivate resilient communities, regenerative food systems, and thriving workplaces. We combine systems thinking, adult education, program evaluation, and partnership development to help mission-driven organizations move from ideas to measurable impact.
While our current work includes strategic planning, grant development, and educational program design, our long-term vision is to build regenerative economic ecosystems that strengthen both people and the places they call home.
City: Pueblo, CO
Founder: Kelly Gehlhoff -
Oak City Spice Blends is a North Carolina food company that creates handcrafted spice blends while preserving culinary history through education. We develop clean-label seasonings inspired by cuisines from around the world and pair them with recipes, cooking instruction, historical storytelling, and practical techniques that help people cook with confidence.
Our mission is to make home cooking healthier, less intimidating, and more meaningful by teaching people not just what to cook, but why ingredients and techniques work. Every product is designed to inspire curiosity, reduce reliance on highly processed foods, and bring families back to the table
City: Pueblo, CO
Founder: Marci Cochran
Instagram: @pueblofarmersmarket
Facebook: pueblofarmermarket
Website: pueblofarmersmarket.org -
Royse Education Studio (RES) supports anatomy & physiology (A&P) educators within CTE health science pathways at the high school and community college level, many of whom enter the classroom with little dedicated A&P training, instructional training, or ongoing support.
RES closes that gap by pairing affordable, evidence-grounded curriculum with mentorship and professional development designed to reduce teacher overwhelm and build instructional confidence. Better-supported teachers translate directly into stronger student engagement in a course that serves as a critical gateway into health science careers.
City: Greeley, CO
Founder: Emily Royse
Website: royseeducationstudio.com -
Soft Landing is a community-powered, women-led platform for sharing and discovering trusted places around the world.
It helps travelers and locals answer questions that traditional review platforms often miss, such as whether an area feels safe after dark, whether hotel staff are supportive, and whether a place is one they would confidently recommend to someone they care about.
Users can recommend places where they felt safe and welcomed, women-owned businesses, family- and pet-friendly spaces, and locations suited for remote work or business travel.City: Fort Collins, CO
Founder: Brittany Archer
Website: softlandinghq.com -
The Honorary Kitchen meets people were they are located to provide meals for those facing food insecurity.
City: Denver, CO
Founder: Tracee Patterson
Instagram: @thehonorarykitchen
Website: thehonorarykitchen.com -
The Human-Canine Alliance (TH-CA) is a patent-pending, AI-powered platform matching people with rescue dogs based on compatibility like energy, lifestyle, wellness needs, and home environment—generating percentage-based rankings and a personalized Compatibility & Training Report for every match.
We're built at the intersection of two crises: the loneliness epidemic and shelter dog euthanasia. By matching on compatibility rather than first impressions, we help adoptions actually stick—providing a pathway for people to develop a relationship that genuinely supports their health, and keeping more dogs out of the euthanasia pipeline.
We operate today as a Social Enterprise: a North Carolina LLC and a registered California nonprofit, currently working with our newly launched advisory board to refine the right long-term structure. This is not a pet adoption site; it's a digital public health solution.
City: Denver, CO
Founder: David Stevens
Website: thelanguageschool.us -
The Postvention Project helps communities build coordinated systems of support after suicide and overdose loss, using our evidence-informed Postvention Systems Stability Model™ (PSSM).We partner with public health agencies, healthcare organizations, schools, employers, and community coalitions to assess existing postvention efforts, strengthen cross-sector collaboration, and build sustainable implementation plans. Our work fills a critical gap in public health infrastructure: replacing fragmented, ad hoc responses with coordinated, equitable systems of survivor support. Our vision is to make coordinated postvention a standard part of community health infrastructure nationwide.
City: Tucson (Arizona)
Founder: Sara Shelton
Website: postventionproject.com -
WalletGyde is an AI powered financial intelligence and coaching platform designed to make trustworthy financial guidance more accessible, understandable, and affordable.
The platform combines connected financial data, deterministic financial calculations, artificial intelligence, safety guardrails, and coaching principles to help users understand their cash flow, spending, budgets, and overall financial position.
Unlike a general purpose chatbot, WalletGyde is being designed to preserve the user’s actual financial reality throughout every stage of the experience. Our long term vision is to build a Financial Intelligence Operating System that supports consumers, financial coaches, employers, and financial institutions.
City: Lakewood, CO
Founder: Caleb Kioh
LinkedIn: walletgyde
Instagram: @walletgyde
YouTube: @walletgyde5634
Website: walletgyde.com
Get early bird tickets!
Tuesday, December 15, 2026
Be in the room where it happens—watch live presentations, connect with these awesome entrepreneurs, and vote for your Crowd Favorite at this grand finale Showcase event!
Tickets are always free!