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The 2024 SMARTstart entrepreneurial training program officially launched on February 28.

SMARTstart is interested in piloting a new event in Fall 2024 that will be offered to our audience. We are seeking up to three sponsored sessions.

Eleven up-and-coming local entrepreneurs representing 10 businesses were celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 25, as they became the tenth cohort of SMARTstart Airdrie graduates.

After her former place of work as a personal trainer closed during the height of the COVID pandemic, Urban embarked on the journey of opening Warehouse Spin & Barre.

The first summer Brent Park started his business in 2014, Liquid Amber Landscape Management, he lost 35 pounds while pushing a mower over his commercial client’s properties.
Since then, he’s transformed his one-man operation into a thriving business with up to 12 employees seasonally.

AEC has been awarded funding from Alberta Innovates to support entrepreneurs in building viable business solutions people love and are willing to pay for.

Over the past nine years, 133 entrepreneurs have completed the SMARTstart program. The 2023 cohort is made up of 13 entrepreneurs – two with an idea for a business and 11 who have already started their journey.

Forte Fluid Systems is the first company to begin AdvanceSMART, Airdrie’s newest entrepreneurial training program designed to support companies experiencing high growth.

The 2023 SMARTstart entrepreneurial training program officially launched on March 1.

Eight-up-and-coming local entrepreneurs representing seven businesses were celebrated on Thursday, October 27.