Steven Welch

Steven Welch is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at DreamIt Ventures. He is also a Co-Founder of Restore Hyper Wellness + Cryotherapy. He started his first big entrepreneurial success, Mitos, in 2001 with hardly a cent to his name. Without ever raising outside money Steve built Mitos into a global company in the biotech manufacturing field prior to selling it in 2007 at the age of 29 to a Fortune 500 company. Under his guidance, Mitos developed several critical innovations and patents which transformed the manufacturing process of biological drugs and vaccines and allowed Mitos to develop a global sales and distribution network. Following the sale of Mitos, He co-founded DreamIt Ventures, a new business accelerator model. As a 2009 Eisenhower Fellow, he spent time around the world studying all aspects of economic development. Throughout Asia, Europe, and North America he has examined how economic development is impacted through 1) government policy 2) technology transfer institutions 3) funding sources, and 4) culture. In 2010 Steve published "We are all Born Entrepreneurs" in which he uses his story and those of over a dozen other entrepreneurs to explain what drives entrepreneurs, while at the same time sharing lessons learned from the success -- and failures -- of entrepreneurs. In 2011 he started KinderTown as an educational app store for parents with children ages 3-8. KinderTown helps parents become their child's best teacher by utilizing game based learning on the tablet with learning in the physical world. In 2013 with almost 400,000 users he sold KinderTown to Demme Learning.