Ten Entrepreneurs. Four Months. New Momentum for Community-Led Solutions.

Jun 24

Across four months of Rally’s Winter 2026 Social Enterprise Accelerator, ten entrepreneurs developed ventures addressing challenges in healthcare, education, accessibility, economic mobility, sustainability, workforce development, and community revitalization.

Communities face no shortage of complex challenges. What they often lack are clear pathways to test promising solutions alongside the people, organizations, and systems closest to the work. That is where Rally’s accelerator experience is designed to create value.

Over four months, Fellows worked alongside Rally staff, mentors, alumni, community leaders, subject matter experts, and ecosystem partners to test assumptions, refine business models, strengthen impact strategies, and identify pathways for growth.

The ventures in this cohort span several of Rally’s focus areas, including Health & Wellness, Economic Stability & Mobility, Education, Placemaking, Land, and Materials. Together, they reflect the kinds of challenges that shape quality of life across communities.

The Winter 2026 cohort brought together ten entrepreneurs building solutions across:

Alyssa Wilbanks, Unbound Disability Claims — helping individuals navigate the Social Security Disability process more effectively
Darren Liddell, Vesta Prosperity — expanding access to financial tools and economic mobility
Elvina Beck, GroundUp — turning organic waste into sustainable building materials
Evan Snow, Zero Empty Spaces — transforming vacant commercial spaces into affordable artist studios
Jamie Swann, Einra — improving communication and coordination in home-based care
Jeremy Chow, Tactus — making live music more accessible for Deaf communities
Kehlin Swain, Greens Health — supporting chronic disease management through AI-powered health tools
Philip Montgomery, Geni — personalizing math education for students
Zach Dyce, Penguin Health — reducing administrative burden for behavioral health providers
Zack Farr, Biotech Applied Research — creating environmental and economic opportunities through biochar production

A key part of the Rally experience is creating opportunities for entrepreneurs to engage directly with the people and systems connected to the challenges they are working to address. Through coaching, Fellow support sessions, and Rally’s Co-Creation Lab, entrepreneurs received feedback, challenged assumptions, uncovered opportunities, and built relationships that can help move their work forward.

The cohort concluded with entrepreneurs sharing the progress, lessons, and next steps that emerged over four months of testing and refinement. The experience highlighted ventures strengthened through feedback, partnership, and real-world learning while creating new opportunities for community members, funders, organizations, and potential collaborators to engage with the work moving forward.

For partners, this is an opportunity to see where these ventures are headed next and where collaboration, testing, or pilot opportunities could help move solutions from concept toward implementation.

We are grateful to every mentor, alumni Fellow, volunteer, partner, co-creator, and community member who contributed their time, expertise, and encouragement throughout the cohort.

The program may be ending, but the work and the opportunities to support it continue.

Meet the Winter 2026 Fellows, learn more about their ventures, and watch their venture presentations at rallysea.com/winter-26.

At Rally, we believe stronger communities are built when entrepreneurs, institutions, and residents work together to test and strengthen solutions that improve quality of life, expand opportunity, and address the challenges facing our region. Our role is to create the conditions for those connections to happen, helping promising ideas move closer to implementation, partnership, and lasting impact.