GCU Canyon Ventures

GCU Canyon Ventures

Accelerating Entrepreneurship in the Grand Canyon State

Canyon Ventures at GCU is an innovative networking venue and workspace for entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses based in the Opportunity Zone of West Phoenix, AZ. They provide an accelerator for startup businesses, coupled with job and growth opportunities for students from Grand Canyon University.

Canyon Ventures is a startup accelerator based at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix. The facility hosts a coworking space and business accelerator program for startups with the goal of creating job and growth opportunities for GCU students.

Students, Startups, and Sustainable Growth

Little Taller worked with the GCU team to conceptualize and execute powerful branding and design and develop a robust website with a custom user portal. Public-facing features include membership application, a job board, and business resources.

The website was designed to be a digital complement to the Canyon Ventures’ physical space, with content to meet the demands of a multifaceted and multigenerational audience base of entrepreneurs, students, small businesses, and investors.
The venture portal is a custom solution developed to aid with administrative tasks. Ventures can easily apply for membership to Canyon Ventures through the portal and the system will automatically vet the applicant based on member requirements.
Ventures can use the portal to post job openings and recruit students from relevant areas of study to apply for internships or open positions. Data aggregation and reporting capabilities make it easy to track company growth and critical markers.

The sleek and functional Canyon Ventures website maintains a helpful, friendly, and professional tone to match the developed brand identity of the program and accommodate a wide range of use cases.