StarSpace46 Chats: Evan Fay

The Great Oklahoma City Chamber is dedicated to helping businesses, large and small, succeed. The work every day to create a business climate in OKC that attracts new investment and enhances growth and expansion opportunities for existing companies. Chamber members represent a strong collection of businesses across a ten county region uniting behind a single pursuit: a better Oklahoma City.

In this week's interview, StarSpace46 partner Jeff Yenzer chats with Evan Fay, Manager of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the OKC Chamber. The two discuss Oklahoma business challenges in 2020, the Launch OKC Metro program, the Chamber's recent partnership with Kiva, and the upcoming Cultivate Coders initiative.

Launch OKC Metro is a community of people spanning up from Norman to Stillwater and from El Reno to Midwest City. Those who want to support new businesses or are looking to start their own can get more information by creating an account on Startup Space.

Evan also talks about how the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber helped facilitate new support for small businesses through a new partnership with Kiva U.S., an online crowdlending platform that strengthens financial access for small businesses. The City of OKC committed up to $168,500 for the program through the Trust’s Economic Development Fund. Progress OKC will market the program, screen applicants, help with applications, provide technical assistance and handle the loans.

Those interested in the Chamber’s new Cultivating Coders partnership can visit the programs website and click “Enroll”, then fill out the form to get more information prior to the January 18th launch in OKC.