Congratulations to founder Bradley Davis and The bKYND Co. crew on their current progress! Davis is a PreFlight Alumni, a part of the final cohort of 2021. Since having launched in 2022, he has gained a number of strategic partnerships which have allowed him to deliver holistic well being applications to the Metro Nashville Public Faculty (MNPS) system.

What are your huge achievements since launching?

Since formally launching our companies in Could of 2022, lower than a 12 months in the past, bKYND has established over 20 native and strategic partnerships all through the mid-Tennessee area. A couple of of those partnerships embrace: Belmont College, Metro Nashville Public Colleges (MNPS), Massive Brothers Massive Sisters of Mid-TN, the IronMan Group, the YMCA, Youth Encouragement Companies (Y.E.S.), and Rocketown. By our partnership with Belmont College, we turned the first ever non-food-based vendor to be authorised to just accept their campus money, Bruin Bucks, for our companies.

We have now additionally developed and launched three totally different age-appropriate holistic wellness applications that strategically mix facets of bodily, psychological, social and emotional well being and wellness inside the Metro Nashville Public Faculty (MNPS) system. The three applications are: Constructing Wholesome Habits, Constructing Future Enterprise Leaders, and Constructing Balanced Athletes. 

Final Fall, we launched our Constructing Wholesome Habits pilot program at Cockrill Elementary (an MNPS faculty). This Spring, we’re internet hosting that very same program at three further MNPS colleges (2 elementary and 1 center faculty). In partnership with MNPS Promising Students, we predict to broaden programming to roughly 10 colleges this summer season. And this coming Fall, we’re anticipating serving upwards of 20 MNPS colleges. Moreover, in FY2022, we generated solely $675 in income. This 12 months, in FY2023, we’re projecting no less than $225k in generated income, which is greater than a 33,000% improve from final 12 months.

What, if any, important moments got here consequently out of your involvement with the EC?

I can truthfully say that if I didn’t take part within the EC’s Pre-Flight program, none of those milestones would have been reached. Not solely did the course assist me additional develop our launch technique, it additionally gave me entry to their unimaginable community of advisors and mentors, and set up the credibility wanted to develop our first partnerships, which is all the time extraordinarily onerous to do. So, briefly, I owe quite a lot of our preliminary wins to the EC Pre-Flight program. 

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