Venture Cafe St. Louis

Innovation is fueled by conversation, collaboration, and storytelling. Venture Café enhances and accelerates the innovation process through spaces, programs, and conversations for individuals and organizations to gather and build relationships.

For entrepreneurs, raising capital and detailed planning are important steps in the entrepreneurial process, but these are not the first steps. What is missing is Steps 0 and 1-That is, honing ideas, mentorship, connection to deep knowledge, and general collaboration opportunities. All these steps and elements present as the foundation in a thriving innovation ecosystem. Most importantly, these elements are fluid enough to be deployed and redeployed over and over again to provide the right level of support at the right moment, to the right ideas, to the right people.