Our history.
In 2013, Sampson cofounded Opportunity Hub as a follow up to the highly successful Kingonomics’ book release and large-scale conferences in Atlanta, GA and Washington, DC. OHUB scaled quickly to become the leading multi-campus coworking space, entrepreneurship center and tech hub featuring over 300 events a year, a startup pre-accelerator, coding boot-camp and scholarship initiative and angel investing platform for founders from underestimated and under-tapped communities. Over 15,000 people engaged with OHUB each year.
Programs like CodeStart, Techhire, #YesWeCodeFund and 100 Black Angels were pioneered and implemented.
Today, OHUB is the definitive future of work, opportunity and wealth creating platform to ensure that everyone, everywhere has early exposure to the tech, startup and venture ecosystem; in demand technology education, training and careers; vetted entrepreneurial support programs; and investment opportunities . This is driven by our growing community of thousands of college students, young professionals, founders and new investors in cities, colleges and universities across America and beyond.
For enterprises, OHUB is a supplier and partner to over 50 tech companies, major corporations, high growth startups and venture funds and growing. Current national initiatives and programs include OHUB@Experiences, OHUB@Campus, HBCU@SXSW and DEIS, a new strategy, service and future software platform to operationalize diversity, equity and inclusion across the major divisions of growing enterprises.
For municipalities, OHUB launched OHUB@Cities to create and sustain inclusive in-demand workforces and entrepreneurial ecosystems in the form of public private partnerships to disrupt income inequality, poverty and the racial wealth gap while increasing a region's economic mobility and growth for all its constituents.
Collaboratively, we persevere to ensure equity in the future of work and 4th industrial revolution for everyone, everywhere.
In 2013, Sampson cofounded Opportunity Hub as a follow up to the highly successful Kingonomics’ book release and large-scale conferences in Atlanta, GA and Washington, DC. OHUB scaled quickly to become the leading multi-campus coworking space, entrepreneurship center and tech hub featuring over 300 events a year, a startup pre-accelerator, coding boot-camp and scholarship initiative and angel investing platform for founders from underestimated and under-tapped communities. Over 15,000 people engaged with OHUB each year.
Programs like CodeStart, Techhire, #YesWeCodeFund and 100 Black Angels were pioneered and implemented.
Today, OHUB is the definitive future of work, opportunity and wealth creating platform to ensure that everyone, everywhere has early exposure to the tech, startup and venture ecosystem; in demand technology education, training and careers; vetted entrepreneurial support programs; and investment opportunities . This is driven by our growing community of thousands of college students, young professionals, founders and new investors in cities, colleges and universities across America and beyond.
For enterprises, OHUB is a supplier and partner to over 50 tech companies, major corporations, high growth startups and venture funds and growing. Current national initiatives and programs include OHUB@Experiences, OHUB@Campus, HBCU@SXSW and DEIS, a new strategy, service and future software platform to operationalize diversity, equity and inclusion across the major divisions of growing enterprises.
For municipalities, OHUB launched OHUB@Cities to create and sustain inclusive in-demand workforces and entrepreneurial ecosystems in the form of public private partnerships to disrupt income inequality, poverty and the racial wealth gap while increasing a region's economic mobility and growth for all its constituents.
Collaboratively, we persevere to ensure equity in the future of work and 4th industrial revolution for everyone, everywhere.
Location: United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2013
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.02.2024 | Opportunity Hub Opens Applications for New Energy Technology Incubator (NETI) Climate Tech Bootcamp 2.0 | Fireside Chat with Tracy Gray, Founder & Managing Partner, The 22 Fund & Rodney Sampson, Chairman & CEO, OHUB Climate Tech Bootcamp Application Submission Overview Header The 10-week virtual pre-accelerator and $50,000 pitch com... |
| 06.04.2021 | Stanford and Duke join certification program to boost diversity education with investors and the C-suite | A partnership between the University of North Carolina’s Kenan Flagler Entrepreneurship Center, the Opportunity Hub and 100 Black Angels and Allies Fund, set up to improve representation and support of diverse founders in the tech industry,... |
| 12.02.2021 | 10 business leaders fighting to make the Black experience a permanent part of corporate America | From left: Naj Austin, Jeff Cherry, DeShuna Spencer, and Obi Omile. Mark Jones; Matter.vc; Naj Austin; Skye Gould/Insider This Black History Month, there’s a heightened call to dismantle systemic racism. Insider and the National Black Chamb... |
| 12.01.2021 | Blackbaud : Welcoming the January 2021 Cohort of the Blackbaud Social Good Startup Program | Blackbaud is delighted to announce the newest members of the Social Good Startup Program in its January 2021 cohort. As part of our commitment to expanding the Ecosystem of Good®, Blackbaud launched the Social Good Startup Challenge in Octo... |
| 22.08.2020 | Tech leaders must make post-COVID upskilling a priority | From death tolls to unforgiving unemployment rates, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has felt like a proverbial gut punch — one that has brought many livelihoods to the brink of an abyss. And no group seems to have borne the brunt of its... |
| 04.04.2019 | What’s the blueprint? Preparing the heartland for AI, automation, and the future of work | VentureBeat held a two-day event in York, Pennsylvania last week, as part of our quest to find a “blueprint” for the way forward for the U.S. heartland. The event provided a fascinating insight into the challenges, and promise, of a heartla... |
| 04.04.2019 | What’s the blueprint? Preparing the heartland for AI, automation, and the future of work | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! VentureBeat held a two-day event in York, Pennsyl... |
| 21.02.2019 | Austin Needs More Black People in Every Area of the Technology Industry | By LAURA LOREK, Publisher of Silicon Hills News |
| 08.03.2016 | Come meet our writers at TechCrunch’s SXSW party and panels | Don’t just drunkenly wander around SXSW. Meet amazing people and catch an unforgettable concert at TechCrunch’s SXSW party. Between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday March 12, join us at Deloitte Digital’s Interplay Lab at The Palm Door a... |