Tessa Arneson

Founder, Maven District, Maven Create and Maven Strong

Salt Lake City

Maven District is a curated block of 40+ businesses that is 85% female founded and 100% local. Within our block we have over 70,000 square feet of retail, food, living, co-working, office and wellness spaces filled up with humans that are making more of their lives by Showing Up, Being Brave and Sparkling On. We believe in making SLC a cooler to live and do this through, community development projects that are local, inclusive, design and art driven, and focus on female startups. To our knowledge we are the largest neighborhood of female owned businesses in one square block in the country, which we are pretty stoked on.

2021 and 2022 will bring us 2 new expansion projects to quadruple the size of our district. Our plan is to keep doing what we do well by creating accessible spaces for more brave humans to start their own businesses and facilitating their growth through providing access to capital, education and mentoring.