Loyola’s Simon Center invests $25,000 in new Maryland business
Loyola University Maryland’s Simon Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship awarded an investment of $25,000 from the Loyola Angel Fund to Sunday Morning at Savannah’s, a bed-and-breakfast in New Windsor. Opened in 2025 by Savannah Mitchell, a graduate of Loyola’s Baltipreneurs Accelerator, the bed-and-breakfast also includes a coffeehouse and event space.
“Savannah is a serial entrepreneur who is building on her successful coffee roasting business by expanding her hospitality concept into lodging. After intense vetting from the students in the Applied Angel Investing class, we are happy that her new venture was recommended for investment by the students, and wish her great success with Sunday Morning at Savannah’s,” said Wendy Bolger, founding director of the Simon Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Loyola established the Loyola Angel Fund, a $250,000 charitable fund, in 2021 to provide students with angel investment knowledge and experience and support local under-resourced entrepreneurs, especially local minority- and women-owned businesses.
Investments follow recommendations made by students in Loyola’s Applied Angel Investing class, a hands-on, interdisciplinary course where students attend pitch meetings and analyze companies. They learn the history of early-stage investing; the entrepreneurial landscape and social inequities in Baltimore; concepts and vocabulary in fund formation and investment vehicles; risk management in the funding and decision-making process; and models of valuation.
Applied Angel Investing was recognized with the 2024 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.
Loyola’s Simon Center will hold an award presentation at Sunday Morning at Savannah’s at 111 S. Springdale Ave. in New Windsor on Monday, Feb. 23, at 5 p.m. The event is open to the community.
Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management in Baltimore delivers an internationally recognized Jesuit business education. Recognized for its scholarship, ethical leadership, and tradition of excellence, the Sellinger School delivers a wide range of sought-after fields of study including nine undergraduate majors and 13 undergraduate minors as well as full-time, part-time, and fully online MBA and Master of Accounting programs.