Andre Fowlkes

(Startup Memphis) Take a couple dozen entrepreneurs and investors, pack them together on a cross-country bus trip for three days and what do you get? The next big startup, if all goes according to plan. But if not that, then at least an experience worth tweeting about and lots of connections to file away for […]

(Memphis Business Journal) Launch Tennessee and Nashville-based Jumpstart Foundry are sponsoring the first StartupBus from Tennessee. The bus will be part of the StartupBus North America competition, and will include 20 entrepreneurs, coders and designers from Tennessee who will travel to San Antonio to compete with teams from San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Florida, Kansas,

(Startup Memphis) February is winding up – as is winter – and with spring right around the corner, it’s time to think about the new season. In addition to weather, the new season also applies to the upcoming programs for startup founders and the three local accelerators that are now accepting applications. For the first

(The Daily News Blog) The Start Co. organization that supports the entrepreneurial and startup communities in Memphis has released some impressive 3-year growth numbers. About 2,000 participants have used the organization’s resources like mentorship so far. A little more than $8 million in funding has been secured by startups, minority participation has grown from single

(The Commercial Appeal) Three startups from the 2013 graduating class of the Seed Hatchery accelerator program have received a total of $705,000 in funding from Memphis-based venture development organization Start Co., program leaders have announced. The angel investments went to MentorMe, which received $175,000; Musistic, which received 200,000; and Screwpulp, which received $330,000. The investments,

(Startup Memphis) Great news from the folks at MentorMe: The startup that graduated last year as part of the Seed Hatchery program has received $175K in investment funding. Here’s more from MentorMe and StartCo, which made the investment: MentorMe was among three companies recently selected to receive angel funding from Start-Co – a global venture

(Memphis Business Journal) Memphis-based Start Co. is going global. Start Co., which is the parent organization of Seed Hatchery, Upstart and the upcoming Sparkgap small business accelerators, has formed a partnership with Angaros Group, a Singapore-based boutique investment firm. The new partnership could provide Start Co. and its accelerator companies with capital and technical assistance.

In case you haven’t signed up for Start Co.’s speed pitch competition today at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library at 3030 Poplar, well, you’re likely too late to make the list to pitch your company. But you can still head over there to watch some innovative Mid-Southerners pitch their startup ideas before some entrepreneurship

(Startup Memphis) Entrepreneurship facilitator Start Co., which was founded as LaunchMemphis in space at EmergeMemphis in 2008, is moving back Downtown after a brief residency in the Playhouse on the Square building in Midtown. Start Co. will take up residence at 88 Union in the coming weeks, said the group’s co-president Eric Mathews. The move,

(Memphis Daily News) On one of the first pages of a more than 80-page plan to kick start entrepreneurial growth in the Memphis area, a reader is greeted with a stark assessment. “The Memphis economy is broken,” reads one of the bullet points within the newly released development plan called MEMx, a blueprint developed by