R3 Score, a Station North-based company birthed out of reentry-focused social enterprise Mission:Launch, is working to get the formerly incarcerated hired, and access to better loans to start their own ventures and businesses.
As with many other businesses, everything changed for the company at the start of the pandemic. R3 Score took part in a 2019 accelerator cohort run by Techstars, but every contract had lined up to pilot R3 Score coming out of the program cancelled. To ensure the survival of the company, R3 Score became a publicly-traded company in September of 2020.
“As an entrepreneur there’s always these moments of, this is interesting because this is our business,” Laurin (Hodge) Leonard, cofounder and CEO of R3 Score, told Technical.ly about the decision to go public. “You seek out the best possible data, you add inputs, you make the best choices with the information that you have, and you find a way to grow your business and do good.”
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