Sentences with phrase «as business incubators»

While over 140 startup assistance organizations (such as business incubators, accelerators, and hubs) operate in the country, high - growth companies like Shopify and Hootsuite did not participate in Canadian programs.

As a business incubator, we specialize in creating, developing and supporting member companies that provide commercial real estate - related services and alternative investment funds, including limited partnerships, institutional funds and non-listed and listed REITs, and real estate services for both Inland member companies and third parties.

Not exact matches

Launched in 2009 by three Yale alums — Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory — and refined during a stint with the well - known startup incubator Y Combinator, the company was completing the details of a massive $ 40 million funding round by one of the top investors in tech, a piece of news they had agreed to announce as part of a profile on Business Insider.

In our May issue, we chronicled the unlikely rise of Youngstown, Ohio, a city long - since abandoned by the steel industry now trying to reinvent itself as a hub for technology entrepreneurs with the help of the Youngstown Business Incubator.

Axiom Zen, which labels itself as an «innovation studio,» is one of a new breed of company, more akin to incubators — organizations that support entrepreneurial ventures as they grow from concept to a going concern — than traditional businesses.

Typically a healthy dose of entrepreneurship gets thrown in as well, as makerspaces double as incubators for business startups.

In almost all cases, participation in a corporate incubator or accelerator enables entrepreneurs to leverage the parent company's resources to scale their business, utilize new technologies and access competencies such as regulatory and / or scientific expertise that otherwise might be unavailable to independent startups.

It started as a modest co-working space in a former bank branch just a couple of years ago to a large, well - managed space and business incubator.

Those include Calico, Google's health and longevity effort; Nest its connected home business; Fiber, its gigabit internet arm; and its investment divisions such as Google Ventures and Google Capital, and incubator projects, such as Google X.

Getting Your Name Out There as a Startup As part of our Project Grow series, we interviewed a number of business - incubator advisers and entrepreneurs about what works when it comes to raising awareness for a bootstrapped companas a Startup As part of our Project Grow series, we interviewed a number of business - incubator advisers and entrepreneurs about what works when it comes to raising awareness for a bootstrapped companAs part of our Project Grow series, we interviewed a number of business - incubator advisers and entrepreneurs about what works when it comes to raising awareness for a bootstrapped company.

Find co-working spaces and incubators in your area, which are fantastic places to work and network with other talented entrepreneurs and business professionals who might make great resources as you start and as you grow.

And, although the debate continues to rage as to which startup skills can be taught, it's very clear that a great deal can be learned by new business builders who immerse themselves in the critical and creative entrepreneurial mass that an incubator like 1871 provides.

Lowe also mentors new entrepreneurs; serves as past chairman of the board for Biztech, a nonprofit high - tech business incubator; and is a co-founder and officer for the Alabama Information Technology Association.

Thanks to a burgeoning scene of business incubators in countries around the world — as well as a growing awareness that consumers outside the U.S. make up a potentially huge market — international startups are increasingly attracting millions of investor dollars from the Bay Area and beyond.

It wants to offer fertile ground for local entrepreneurs, particularly in the poorer parts of the city, to start businesses and help them grow, empowering the incubator infrastructure to work as effectively as possible.

A question I often get as an adviser is whether or not to join a business incubator or accelerator as a way to move forward faster and smarter and increase the odds of business success.

The 14 - person company has raised a total of $ 3.4 million in seed and Series A financing, as well as received a $ 2 million grant from the Department of Energy's SunShot Incubator Program, which funds up to $ 12 million in grant money to small businesses and entrepreneurs working on both hardware and software technology that makes solar more accessible for Americans.

Two of Hsieh's close colleagues, Jeanne Markel and Maggie Hsu, arrived to give me a tour of the Downtown Project, a real - estate development and business incubator that over the last three years has transformed a formerly derelict section of Las Vegas known as Fremont East.

ZeroFOX was founded in January of 2013 and has collected a number of industry awards including being recognized as the CRN's Top 10 Security Companies, 2013 Maryland Cyber Company of the Year, Winner of Chesapeake Regional Technology Council 2014 Rising Star Award, Winner of the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Venture Association Capital Connection TechBuzz show in Washington D.C., «Incubator Company of the Year» for the state of Maryland in June 2013, and Baltimore Business Journal's «Top 5 Cyber Companies to Watch», «20 Most Promising Security Companies» by CIO Review, and Daily Record's «Innovator of the Year».

Graduates of the program have been recognized by the International National Business Incubator Association (InBIA) and the program itself has been honored as the 2013 «Incubator Network of the Year.»

La Cocina Kitchen Incubator — San Francisco The mission of La Cocina is to cultivate low income food entrepreneurs as they formalize and grow their businesses by providing affordable commercial kitchen space, industry - specific technical assistance and access to market opportunities.

Founded in 1881 as the Newark Technical School, NJIT is now home to nearly 50 laboratories and centers and over 120 business incubators, where hundreds of research breakthroughs have been achieved.

The workspace - as - a-service industry includes office business centers, coworking facilities, incubators and other shared office environments and services.

Home - based businesses make up 53 percent of the small business population and serve as incubators for many growing businesses.

Many startup founders can benefit from applying to and participating within a startup incubator or accelerator as it can help get your business off the ground with support, coaching and even capital.

The McFly.aero Technology and Business Incubator on Thursday launched its initial coin offering (ICO) to build a network of flying cars for mass use as air taxis in cities.

From 1999 to 2011, Jasper worked at San Juan College as the director of the Enterprise Center (business incubator).

He says he's working to get approval for the commission that Riverhead Town has advocated as a way of fast - tracking projects at EPCAL and, among other things, has been instrumental in establishing the Stony Brook Business Incubator in Calverton; has secured grant money for the J. Kings food processing facility in Baiting Hollow; and has helped to create a synergy among the three East End hospitals.

A former president and CEO of Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progress and the Orange County Partnership, respectively, DiTullo has a substantial background in economic development including his most recent position, managing director of the Orange County Business Accelerator where he established a high - tech incubator and attracted more than 22 early stage innovators focused in such industries as the life sciences, bio-medical and web - based software development, to name a few.

Cuomo, speaking at the downtown Strand Theatre on Wednesday, said the city contains all of the elements required to fuel economic growth, including a strong core of small businesses, a state school that acts as an idea incubator and a low corporate tax rate.

CUOMO CREATED THE TEN COUNCILS AFTER TAKING office in 2011 and began funneling state funding decisions — as well as new programs to benefit veterans, revitalize low - income areas and create business incubators — through their ranks.

As proof of the path's viability, Kreiner points to graduates of the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI), a 10 - month mentoring program for social entrepreneurs, which culminates in a 2 - week boot camp on the Santa Clara campus every August where participants present business plans to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

At Lund University, for instance, units such as LU Innovation, a technology transfer office, and the business incubators Venture Lab and The Greenhouse have been created.

The city also has the largest cluster of pharmaceutical companies in Canada, as well as the country's largest concentration of research institutes, business incubators, and business support services.

Through its Fashion Incubator initiative, it supports and nurtures young designers with mentorship and low - cost studio spaces, while the CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund, developed in partnership with American Vogue, awards winning designers with $ 300,000 as well as a full year of business mentorship.

LONDON, United Kingdom — Despite this city's reputation as a world - class incubator for emerging fashion talent, London designers capable of channelling agenda - setting creativity into viable, global businesses are rare.

Founded by business incubator Direct2Solutions GmbH, Cross Dating emerged as Germany's leading White Label Dating solutions provider.

Dr. Jemison is a member of the National Academy of Sciences» Institute of Medicine and is: on the Board of Directors of Kimberly - Clark Corp., Scholastic, Inc. and Valspar Corp.; a Trustee of Morehouse College; Board of Texas Medical Center; and served as Chair, Texas State Product Development and Small Business Incubator Board; Chair, Greater Houston Partnership Disaster Planning and Recovery Task Force; a member Board of National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

In March 2012 the Pratt Design Incubator, which is a part of the Center for Sustainable Design Studies at Pratt Institute, was cited in the Center for the Urban Future report «Designing New York's Future,» as a prime example of an initiative that fuels new businesses and spurs economic growth.

You should also consider Basecamp3 - an exciting new community business incubator which is really pushing to support Liverpool's creative industries by providing decent space as well as business advice.

As the perfectly pitched, bombastic buffoon Erlich Bachman, comedian Miller steals the show, dubbing his banal suburban domicile an incubator and, aided by a fistful of psilocybin, rattling off evangelical tech gibberish: «Technolojees - us... Cloud - based disruptive platforms... Making the world a better place through cross-platform business facing!»

Creative Business Incubator spaces «Butterfly Effect» gallery (85 Main St), «Outside Gallery» (10 Ashland St), «Common Folk Artist Collective» (33 Main St), as well as the «Thin Walls Studio and Workshop» (87 Main St), each will host grand opening receptions as part of this first DownStreet Art Thursday.

The company was recently chosen as a winner in the Social Venture Challenge Asia 2017, which brought Evoware a cash award as well as a mentorship and participation in a business incubator, which aim to help bring the company's products to a bigger market.

Over the past few years, venture capital investment in agriculture and food businesses (collectively referred to as «Agtech») has soared (see chart below), startup incubators dedicated to Agtech launched, and even the USDA has gotten into the Agtech game by creating a fund to support Agtech innovation.

She serves on the executive committee of the Luskin Center for Innovation and on the advisory boards of Women in Green, the Southern CA Green Business Council, the Built Environment for the LA Cleantech Incubator, as well as the steering committee for the USGBC Resilience LA Initiative and the leadership team for Path to Positive LA.

Ideally, the incubator would partner with organizations such as business schools, co-working spaces and tech - startup incubators.

Tim acts as a mentor to early stage technology companies in Bristol at the SETsquared business incubator, and in London at Seedcamp and the fintech accelerator Level39.

It can be duplicated by any charitable or philanthropic organization as well by other types of organizations, like educational intuitions and business incubators, in order to offer legal services in fulfillment of the organization's mission and objectives.

Just as Howe has put a social purpose twist on the traditional business incubator, he sees how the model could apply to the legal profession, with some caveats.

Henry J. Chang's Canada - US Immigration Blog Start - Up Visa Program to Include Business Incubator Stream As previously reported, on March 30, 2013, Citizenship and Immigration Canada («CIC») published Ministerial Instructions that established the Start - Up Visa Program («SUVP»).