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Memphis Selected for Women’s Focused Startup Weekend, Powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, The Commercial Appeal and Start Co.

54-hour event tailored toward developing talents of aspiring female entrepreneurs MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Aug. 11, 2014) – Start Co. announced today that Memphis will play host to Startup Weekend Sept. 12-14. Startup Weekend is an international series of weekend events to spur entrepreneurship, and the Memphis Startup Weekend will focus on showcasing the talents of aspiring […]

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New Logistics Venture Lands $250,000 Investment

(Memphis Daily News) Start Co.’s “Summer of Acceleration” already has proven a success for at least one startup that’s participated in one of the organization’s accelerators this year. Graph Story, a graph database-as-a-service offering for small and medium businesses and which is a member of Start Co.’s SparkGap accelerator, is the recipient of a six-figure angel

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Sparkgap Cohort Member Receives First Investment of the Year

(SouthernAlpa) Today, Start Co. announced a $250,000 angel investment for Sparkgap cohort member Graph Story, a graph database-as-a-service offering for small and medium businesses. The funding is the first investment for this year’s Summer of Acceleration programming. “Moving through Sparkgap’s curriculum has helped me establish a valid business model and strategy,” said Greg Jordan, CEO

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Sparkgap accelerator cohort member Graph Story receives $250,000 angel investment

First startup in Summer of Acceleration programming closes funding round in only 85 days MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Aug. 4, 2014) – Start Co. today announced a $250,000 angel investment for Sparkgap cohort member Graph Story, a graph database-as-a-service offering for small and medium businesses. The funding, mostly furnished by members of the Start Co. Angels Network,

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Video showcases Memphis as a “Startup City”

(High Ground News) Engine, the voice of startups in government, recently made the trip from San Francisco to Memphis, where we’ve seen the local entrepreneurial ecosystem flourish over the last few years. Memphis is one of the cities Engine chose for its series of “Startup Cities” videos, where several successful entrepreneurship hubs outside the larger, typical

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Former White House Chief Economist to Keynote Memphis Start Co. Demo Day

(SouthernAlpha) Start Co. has announced that Edward B. Montgomery, former White House Chief Economist and the current dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, will be the keynote speaker at the Summer of Acceleration Demo Day on August 21st. Demo Day is the pinnacle for Start Co.’s 14-week startup training and

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Respected Economic Development Leader to Keynote Start Co.’s Demo Day August 21

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (July 28, 2014) – Start Co. announced today that The Honorable Edward B. Montgomery, former White House Chief Economist and current dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, will be the keynote speaker at the Summer of Acceleration Demo Day Aug. 21. Demo Day is the culmination of a

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Brock: GigTank teams getting ready for pitch day

(Chattanooga Times Free Press) In Tennessee, we currently have six accelerators across the state that are nearing the end of their industry-specific summer cohort programs: GigTank in Chattanooga, Jumpstart Foundry in Nashville, ZeroTo510 and the Start Co. programs in Memphis, autoXLR8R in Spring Hill and MediaWorks in Knoxville. All of these programs began in May

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