Mar 01, 2021 |
Two St. Bonaventure University students were members of the winning team at a Techstars Startup Weekend competition, a virtual event hosted by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth over the weekend of Feb. 19-21.
St. Bonaventure students Alec Peinkofer, a senior from Bradford, Pennsylvania, who is pursuing his MBA in general business, and Darion Gregory, a sophomore environmental studies major from Smethport, Pennsylvania, were part of a collaborative team rounded out by two UMass Dartmouth students and a UMass Dartmouth alumnus.
Techstars Startup Weekends are three-day events where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their ideas for new startup companies. Held in hundreds of locations around the world, they draw teams composed of students, developers, investors, marketing experts, artists
Tech accelerator and incubator Exponential Impact has launched a new startup community program called Springs Startup.
Itâs billed as new early-stage and community programming for startup founders âfor entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.âÂ
âAfter a year of starts, exits, and closures of both startup support resources and startups themselves a group of Colorado Springs founders are teaming up to bring pitch nights, startup weekends, and an entry point into the entrepreneurial community,â Exponential Impactâs announcement reads. Â
Springs Startup is an initiative of Exponential Impact, led by a committee of startup entrepreneurs, past board members and founders of Peak Startup, who are passionate about the potential and momentum of the tech startup ecosystem in Colorado Springs and Southern Colorado. Â