Celebrating the 2025 Evolve Small Winners
10 incredible businesses just won the 2025 Evolve Small grant. For the first time ever, this year's grant goes beyond a Lenovo tech package, cash, and mentorship to include cutting-edge AI technology and training too. You can find all our amazing winners here.
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The Evolve Small Initiative
The Lenovo Evolve Small initiative is dedicated to championing minority, disabled and woman-owned small businesses. This year is no different, except we're giving it an AI twist. For the past two years, Lenovo has powered AI-enabled technology, giving users the confidence to use AI for good. In 2025, Lenovo Evolve Small and our partners at Intel and Microsoft are dedicated to leveraging our expertise to give small business the tools they need to navigate this new technology.
The Journey So Far...
From artists to bakers to shoemakers, Lenovo Evolve Small has supported small businesses across North America since 2021. Alongside our partners we’ve supercharged more than 5,000 businesses, providing them with over $3.6M in technology and financial aid, mentorship and community support.
In 2022, we even recruited Hollywood Royalty, Queen Latifah. This superstar was the face of our campaign and thousands of small businesses got to use her too, thanks to some innovative AI technology. This is just another example of how we try to make big things happen for small businesses.
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Meet the 2025 Lenovo Evolve Small Cohort
Archway Pet
Archway Pet crafts allergen-friendly and unshakably sustainable pet food products leveraging novel proteins like invasive fish and insect-based proteins.
Chicago
Coble Studios
Coble Studios helps creators and brands bring their stories to life with broadcast-quality video, podcasts, and live event production powered by innovative technology.
Houston
Crossfaded Hair Studio
Crossfaded Hair Studio blends the precision of barbering with the artistry of coloring, making modern urban haircuts and styles.
San Diego
Cubtale
Cubtale is a personalized care platform giving new parents real-time, data-driven guidance to help make confident decisions across parenting challenges, from feeding to baby milestones.
Los Angeles
DungeonForward
DungeonForward is redefining headwear and fashion, creating statement pieces that blend cultural heritage, innovation and artistic excellence.
Miami
Fila Manila
Fila Manila produces award-winning pantry staples inspired by Filipino culture, one of the largest AAPI communities with almost zero representation in mass grocery.
Washington, D.C.
Helius Originals
Helius Originals brings premium craftsmanship and sustainability to eco-luxury high-end cocktail and culinary smoking products for the hospitality and corporate gifting industries.
Toronto
Just Add Honey Tea Co.
Just Add Honey Tea Co. blends organic loose-leaf teas that are fresh and flavorful, bringing the joy of “fancy without the fuss” to tea lovers everywhere.
Atlanta
Simply Smile Studio
Simply Smile Studio offers personalized dental hygiene therapies in a safe, supportive space, prioritizing patients facing medical, mental, or financial barriers.
Vancouver
Urban Hydration
Hydrating skin and communities alike, Urban Hydration offers plant-based skincare and haircare solutions, while partnering with nonprofits to deliver clean water to communities in need.
Dallas
Frequently Asked Questions
Not for profit partner Goodie Nation is the trusted, multicultural community for post-accelerator diverse founders and social entrepreneurs. Goodie Nation leads our Evolve Small Mentorship Program, which is a yearlong program where our grant recipients receive personalized mentorship to assist with personal, professional, and business development.
Goodie Nation pairs each grant recipient with a Performance Partner who serves as a dedicated business coach. Through a series of weekly huddles and monthly 1:1’s, the Goodie Nation team coaches small business founders in key functions such as sales, marketing, hiring, technology and encourages knowledge sharing across the cohort. This community provides the space for each founder to dive into the details on progress and challenges to pave the way for the company’s success and growth.
How To Get Involved
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Whether you’re looking for tech advice and experts, meaningful partnership, or networking and resources from like-minded business owners, our Lenovo experts can help.
AI solutions
Rather than building technology for people to adapt to, Lenovo is providing purposeful AI solutions that deliver what people and businesses need to be successful and thrive.
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AI PCs built for small business
Intel continues to lead the way with AI embedded in a new generation of Lenovo PCs, bringing computing into a new era of supercharged speed, efficiency, privacy, and security. Small businesses get the performance they need to manage tasks more efficiently, productively and securely, saving time that can be invested back into new ideas to move your business forward, or simply spent doing the things you love most. With a new architecture that supports AI workloads and new tools to empower IT like never before, Intel® Core™ Ultra and Intel vPro® processors bring AI PCs to small business.
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Have any questions about Lenovo Evolve Small? Send us an e-mail at evolvesmall@lenovo.com
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void outside the Eligibility Area and where prohibited. Open to legal residents of the US or Canada (excl Quebec),who are at least 18+/age of majority entering on behalf of a Small Business (as defined in the Rules) located in (a) the greater metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; San Diego, California; Houston, Texas; and Washington D.C. in the US; & (b) the greater metropolitan areas of Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada (“Eligibility Area”) and either are the owners of the eligible Small Business or have the authority from a Small Business owner to submit an entry on its behalf. Begins 9:00 am ET on 1/27/25; ends 11:59 pm ET on 2/17/25. For Official Rules & eligibility, Click Here. Sponsor: Lenovo Group Limited.
