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Grow your business in a resource-laden community: Tulsa’s robust network of startups, investors, mentors, and incubator spaces help you find the focus and attention to make your ideas thrive.

Tools to Drive Your Growth and Success

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    Access to capital

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    Skilled talent pipeline

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    Partnership development

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    Focused expertise

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    Low operational costs

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Raise funds and grow investments to scale up

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Tap in to a ready workforce

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Synergize with other innovators and accelerate R&D

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Learn from our legacy strengths for a stronger future

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Find efficiencies across talent, infrastructure, and overhead

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Tools to Drive Your Growth and Success

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01

Access to capital

Raise funds and grow investments to scale up

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Skilled talent pipeline

Ensure workforce readiness

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Partnership development

Drive innovation to incubate tech or accelerate R&D

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Focused expertise

Tap into our strengths and past to grow a stronger future

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Low operational costs

Find efficiencies across talent, infrastructure, overhead

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Tulsa’s Industry Expertise

With long-standing industry and entrepreneurial excellence that’s informed by data-driven research, Tulsa has a right to win across five focal areas.

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Innovation is pivotal for retaining Tulsa's oil and gas workforce and creating accessible jobs. Tulsa is a center of excellence for analytics, automation, and Operational Technology (OT) across the energy sector, leading the way for energy efficiency and sustainability.

With a history of excellence in aerospace, industry-aligned R&D, unique testing assets, and an advanced mobility workforce, the next generation of mobility innovations are coming out of Tulsa.

Virtual and remote care solutions are critical to underserved and rural communities. Tulsa is poised to be a virtual health hub for the South, with best-in-class solutions driven by local research centers and a vibrant business community.

Tulsa's base of energy companies, as well as the growing ecosystems in virtual health and advanced aerial mobility, benefit from new cyber talent and applied research — where Tulsa is on track to be a leader.

By investing in data analytics and data sciences education and training, Tulsa is upskilling talent to prepare the workforce for the data and technology economy.

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    Energy

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    Aerospace & Aerial Mobility

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    Virtual Health

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    Cyber

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    Analytics

Explore the 5 Focus Areas Defined by Tulsa Innovation Labs

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Energy

Innovation is pivotal for retaining Tulsa's oil and gas workforce and creating accessible jobs. Tulsa is a center of excellence for analytics, automation, and OT across the energy sector, leading the way for energy efficiency and sustainability.

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Aerospace & Aerial Mobility

With a history of excellence in aerospace,  industry-aligned R&D, unique testing assets, and an advanced mobility workforce, the next generation of mobility innovations are coming out of Tulsa.

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Virtual Health

Virtual and remote care solutions are critical to underserved and rural communities. Tulsa is poised to be a virtual health hub for the South, with best-in-class solutions driven by local research centers and a vibrant business community.

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Cyber

Tulsa's base of energy companies, as well as the growing ecosystems in virtual health and advanced aerial mobility, benefit from new cyber talent and applied research — where Tulsa is on track to be a leader.

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Analytics

By investing in data analytics and data sciences education and training, Tulsa is helping upskill talent and prep the workforce for the new data and technology economy.

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Tulsa’s Tech, Innovation, and Talent by the Numbers

8

Fortune 1,000

company headquarters
30

Entrepreneurs Accelerated

through ACT Tulsa, Lightship bootcamps, Entrepreneurs-in-residence
15%

Cost Savings

for tech talent
25.6M

Funding as of 2021

for 36DN members

Programs and Resources For Entrepreneurs, Start-Ups & Businesses

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Fund your business

Atento Capital

This Tulsa-based, for-profit investment firm is focused on returns, quality job creation, and being helpful — primarily working closely with Tulsa-area founders up until they can reach institutional funding at the seed stage.

Access start-up resources

Build in Tulsa

Rooted in the legacy of Black Wall Street, Build in Tulsa provides access and opportunity for minority entrepreneurs who have historically been denied resources and funding.

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Incubate your ideas

36 Degrees North

Known as Tulsa’s basecamp for entrepreneurs, innovators, and startups, 36DN provides workspace, helpful resources, and a diverse community of entrepreneurs to empower growing companies and drive economic impact in Tulsa.

Invest in innovation

Tulsa Innovation Labs

To position Tulsa as a tech hub and leader in the future of work, Tulsa Innovation Lab is creating economic development programs that seek to make Tulsa the nation’s most inclusive tech community.

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Grow your workforce

inTulsa

inTulsa is an on-the-ground resource that makes it easy for businesses to connect with key hires and launch operations in Tulsa with talent, relocation, and growth solutions.

Strengthened by Our Business and Education Community

In conjunction with our programs, Tulsa’s ecosystem provides a network of resources across entrepreneurs, education, and enterprises.

Collaborators in Entrepreneurship

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Workforce-Ready Graduates

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Corporate Leaders

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My husband and I quickly fell in love with the sense of community in Tulsa. We feel like wherever we go, people are welcoming us to Tulsa. Tulsa Remote has made it so easy for us to plug into the community, and we never run out of things to do. We’ve also experienced the powerful history and enduring legacy of Black Wall Street and are excited to witness its continued growth and success!

Monique

Business Growth Advisor
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The ongoing coaching and resources that Build in Tulsa has provided has undoubtedly helped accelerate the growth of my business and my comfort level in pitching my services to prospective clients, partners and funders.

Krystal

Founder

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Making Headlines

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October 27, 2023

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How an unusually diverse team of VCs is putting $100M to work in Oklahoma

Atento Capital, which just closed its first $100 million fund this spring, is unusual by any measure—not just because of its home base...

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