The Florida Institute of Technology opened its first Women’s Business Center in downtown Orlando Thursday.
The school already had success with women’s business centers in Melbourne and Rockledge.
FIT says the centers are designed to be incubators of ideas, places for entrepreneurial women to make contacts, receive mentoring, training and education.
The school wanted to tap into Orlando’s growing technology hub and provide resources that will help women innovate.
"We want all women who are starting or growing their company to be able to leverage digital technology for their company, these technologies that will help them grow or scale… but we also want to help women who have patents. We want to help them commercialize their patents and launch companies around those as well," said Leslie Hielema, Vice President of rlando Center Florida Institute of Technology.
The center is being funded by a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Through their events and consulting, they plan to serve hundreds of entrepreneurs each year.