ASU’s Spring Demo Day concluded with two Peoria Forward incubation ventures receiving initial seed funding in their funding tracks. Anthony Souris, otherwise known as Tony, the founder of Bisbee Baby, a platform that collects data from baby products, received $10,000 in ...
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Peoria Forward steps up to help small businesses during crisis
Peoria Forward, a collaborative program between the City of Peoria and ASU’s Entrepreneurship + Innovation department, was able to quickly jump into action recently to help small-business owners whose livelihoods were threatened by the COVID-19 ...
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Announcing: Venture Devils+ Program
Entrepreneurship + Innovation at ASU has launched Venture Devils+, a pilot program this spring meant to help bridge the gap between early-stage ventures and investment-ready ventures. After earning funding from Demo Day pitch competitions, ...
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Peoria Forward Skill Building Resources
At ASU, we define entrepreneurs and creatives broadly and inclusively. Complementary industry areas feed and provide one another with fresh, new perspectives; the integration of multiple industries can lead to exciting innovations. The diversity of startup and scale-up of ...
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West Valley Innovation Alliance Spring Summit 2020
A suite of innovative baby products, a news reader that aims to empower readers to recognize fake news without bias and a technology platform designed to bringing community, friendships & wellness to senior citizens anywhere, ...
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ASU breaks ground on 2nd downtown residence hall with focus on entrepreneurship and the arts
Expected to open in fall 2021, the Downtown Phoenix Residence Hall and Entrepreneurship Center will be the first new residential space on the Downtown Phoenix campus since Taylor Place. The first three floors will offer ...
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The Spring 2020 Community Innovation Summit
Over two days, the best creative minds of the West Valley worked together to build real-life solutions to challenges within their community as part of the Community Innovation Summit on February 21 & 22 at ...
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Phoenix ranked in 50 best cities to start a business in 2020
Low costs and low regulations help this desert flower blossom. Ranked nine out of 50 overall No. 2 in net business creation No. 7 in population growth No. 9 in job creation Like a lot ...
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Reinventing the wheel: Breakthrough Schools receives innovation grant
Powered by ASU’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation department in partnership with Verizon Wireless, a Cleveland charter school was one of the first in the country to receive a technology overhaul, including a state-of-the-art lab, iPads for ...
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Budding entrepreneurs visit early stage high-performing startups in local Startup Crawl
This post is courtesy of guest writer and ASU student, Michael Amato-Yarbrough. It’s easy to forget that even the top-performing startups today started off very, very small. Before hiring swaths of employees and big ...
