The Downtown Windsor Business Accelerator. (BlackburnNews.com file photo) The Downtown Windsor Business Accelerator. (BlackburnNews.com file photo)
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Accelerator Launches Crowd Funding Campaign

The Downtown Windsor Business Accelerator is looking to the community after Windsor City Council denied a funding request of $90,000.

The Accelerator launched a crowd funding campaign with Indie GoGo to raise the funds needed for marketing and expansion.

"Hopefully if big City C doesn't support us, small city C, the community of Windsor will support us and we'll raise the money that way," says Managing Director of the Downtown Windsor Business Accelerator Arthur Barbut.

Barbut says there are currently more then 30 members of the accelerator and 12 graduates of the program who together have created over 500 jobs for the region.

"It's really, really depressing and unfortunate that our city doesn't believe in something that's created jobs for the lowest cost out of any other economic development entity in the city but as true entrepreneurs we're going to figure out," says Barbut.

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