Innovation Portal

Keep an open mind. Sometimes the best opportunities come from unexpected places. Falon Humphries, founder of DispersaTip, shares her advice from the Portal Fund: RISE program.

Falon Humphries did not walk into Portal Funrise knowing exactly how to build what she was envisioning.

She just knew she had something worth building.

After Braxton presented at a RISE meeting and opened the door for support, Falon reached out. What followed was exactly the kind of collaboration that moves ideas forward.

He asked questions she did not yet have answers to, and instead of stopping there, they grabbed a notebook, sketched out the concept, pulled up references, and started developing the tool together.

Now she has a first version prototype, with more refinement ahead.

That is what access to the right people and the right resources looks like in practice.