After working since October at a space in Baltimore City Community College, the founders of six startups in the latest cohort of Conscious Venture Lab gathered for demo day this week.

While the event at MICA’s Fred Lazarus IV Center on North Ave. marked the end of the impact-minded accelerator’s third cohort, it reflected a couple of firsts.

For one, it was the first iteration of the program to be held in West Baltimore, as it was initially founded in Howard County. The beginning of the cohort also followed a partnership between CVL’s Jeff Cherry and Joe Mechlinskito form Shift Ventures, which is backing CVL as well as socially-minded startups more broadly.

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