StartupWind powers up statewide economic development programs by unveiling Virtual Innovation Platform to boost Tech startup & SMB entrepreneurs
Summary
StartupWind brings the tools, video-based entrepreneurship courses, and best practices learned by working with over 50 university innovation programs in the world to power up statewide initiatives. • Virtual Incubator: Ability to develop ideas using guided frameworks and tools for ideation, customer discovery, prototyping, and business model canvas to help ventures progress at their own pace with step-by-step guidelines and workflow. As Arizona’s premier economic development agency, we understand the importance of supporting all entrepreneurs - tech startups and SMBs.We see significant overlap in the needs of early-stage startups and SMBs and we look forward to utilizing the StartupWind Innovation Management Platform to enable the development and growth of Arizonas startup and small business communities!” Megan Marszalek, Senior Program Manager at the Innovation Institute, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative said, "The StartupWind Virtual Innovation Platform allowed us to run the COVID-19 Intrapreneur Challenge, an effort to activate and support Massachusetts companies as they pivoted their production capabilities to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our finalists were spread across the state and were able to use StartupWind to work remotely, develop their ideas into solid business plans, and accelerate their production of critical items.” Naren Patil, the Founder & CEO of StartupWind said, “Our mission is to reduce friction for tech startup and SMB entrepreneurs in the US and around the world by enabling them with the entrepreneurship knowhow, tools, frameworks and connection to mentors at their fingertips. We are excited about working with statewide economic development programs to help a large number of tech startup and SMB entrepreneurs.” Headquartered in Cupertino, California, StartupWind is the Virtual Innovation Platform that unveils a new way to connect, ideate, mentor, and scale startups.