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Love to see it! If you're in the Madison area, check out the gBETA Urban League program and get in your applications by Oct. 30!

What a phenomenal end to our first gener8tor powered StartUp Rutland accelerator, alongside Chamber & Economic Development of the Rutland Region's Annual Meeting! 🎉 I couldn’t be prouder of our incredible cohort founders who took the stage and showcased the results of their hard work over the past 7-weeks as part of the Startup Rutland accelerator powered by gener8tor. The energy at The Paramount Theater in Rutland, VT was electric, and each team delivered a powerful presentation. A massive thank you to all of our mentors, supporters, and everyone who showed up to cheer on our founders, including representatives from our State Legislature—you helped make this event a success! 🙌 Your guidance, time, and effort played a critical role in driving these startups forward. Special thanks to Mayor Michael Doenges for the continued support. Special moment for me on stage as well, announcing RDF Ventures, my new early-stage venture fund aimed at supporting more founders like them in Vermont. Huge thanks to Vermont Economic Development Authority (VEDA), The Vermont Community Foundation & H. Kenneth Merritt, Jr. for the support and confidence. More to come soon. ✨ Grateful to be part of this journey and looking forward to continuing building this vibrant ecosystem. Massive thanks to my team at gener8tor, specially Jake Pollastrini, and my team at CEDRR & The Hub CoWorks, and everyone else who made this program and our pitch event possible. 🚀 Huge thanks to EastRise Credit Union for presenting a $5,000 audience choice award to Brightwater Tools! Lastly, I'm in Boston speaking at the Consulate General of Japan in Boston with JETRO - Japan External Trade Organization talking about startup and venture ecosystem building, representing gener8tor from Oct 24-25. If you're a founder or VC in town - let's grab coffee! ☕️ Brightwater Tools (Kim Nace, Jacqueline Gold), Aprexis Health (Rob Squire & Mike Howe), Skingenius (Yuliya Pokhylko), Cathoven AI (Erdi Tac)

Congrats to our own Abby Kursel (Taubner) and Maggie Brickerman for their Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association Forward Awards recognition!

I have not had the chance to post in awhile as I've been heads down working with five fantastic founders in the Ag Space! We are half way through our gener8tor equity-free accelerator program. Here are our five gBETA AgBioScience Fall 24' startups: 🚀 Seismi, Inc. - Developing MEMS-based veterinary product to monitor heart rate and respiration of companion animals and production farm animals. Also investigating methane/MRV space. 🚀 TerraForce - Specializes in robotic harvesting and packaging of large fruits like watermelons. Harvest-as-a-Service(HaaS) business model. 🚀 Green Fortress Energy - Systems convert local biomass into energy, chemicals, fuels and heat. Reduce waste and produce sustainable outputs. 🚀 EcoGrains - Chemical technology company utilizing patented technology to transform low-vale Distillers Grains with Solubles (DGS) to sustainable fuels for motorsports and aviation fuel. 🚀 Cedar Bluff Technologies - Computer vision based inventory creation for existing inventory management platforms used by equipment dealers in the Ag and Construction industry. The future is bright for these early-stage companies! Thank you to our sponsors Indiana Economic Development Corporation AgriNovus Indiana

🌟 Calling All Startup Accelerators! 🌟 Are you ready to discover the next big breakthrough in innovation? 🚀 Join us for our exclusive Fall Accelerator Lightning Rounds! This virtual event is designed especially for dynamic accelerators looking to connect with promising startups. 🔗 Register Now: https://lnkd.in/ghRPidAf

📣 🎉 Big congrats to gBETA Wyoming alumni High Plains Biochar for winning a $250K grant from the CO-WY NSF Engine! The grant will provide a 50% cost share for groups in Colorado and Wyoming who want to purchase biochar equipment. Led by Innosphere Ventures and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the CO-WY Engine is a collaborative initiative focused on driving innovation for climate resilience across the Colorado-Wyoming region. 📣 🎉

Congratulations to the 2024 gener8tor Luxembourg cohort! We are so proud of the founders and look forward to supporting them in their next steps. Each of these CEOs is fierce and formidable. They showcased their progress with an impressive pitch during gener8tor’s Luxembourg Venture Days event! Äerd Lab 🇱🇺 - 3D printing eco-friendly bricks from construction waste that are 70% less CO2-intensive, helping to decarbonize the construction industry and promote greener building solutions. Angelika Bocian-Jaworska, CEO BIM-Y 🇱🇺 - Offers a next-generation building management platform that uses AI to automatically identify building elements from 3D scans, providing key data for efficient facility management. The platform streamlines maintenance, enhances sustainability, and reduces costs while boosting operational efficiency. Jean-Yves Marié, CEO CyberseQ 🇩🇪 - Provides innovative and quantum-enhanced cybersecurity solutions to ensure cyber resilience and threat detection for SMEs. The platform also ensures compliance with EU NIS2 and other Cyber Resilience Act regulations. Dr. Mark Tehrani, CEO VESTIS LABS 🇱🇺 - A practical, accessible, and collaborative digital solution empowering fashion and textile brands to work more efficiently, enhance transparency, and promote resource-efficient practices. Fonny Bunjamin, CEO We are so grateful to all the attendees, customers, mentors, investors, and other stakeholders supporting these startups as they continue to grow! Thank you so much to Shelby Peranich, Ali Wagman and the rest of the gener8tor team for supporting this cohort! A special thank you to Meysam Minoufekr, CEO of Dropslab Technologies for participating and supporting these startups!” Luxinnovation GIE, Startup Luxembourg, Le Village by CA Luxembourg, Luxembourg-City Incubator, The LHoFT - Luxembourg House of Financial Technology #LuxembourgVentureDays

gener8tor celebrated all things insurtech at InsureTech Connect while highlighting our Northwestern Mutual Black Founder Accelerator and gener8tor Insurance & Wealth Accelerator Presented by Allianz Life and Securian Financial ⚡️

Had a great time at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation #WIEconomicSummit discussing the economic impact of the arts and what more Wisconsin can do to thrive with the arts. Thank you to Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Sculpture Milwaukee and the WormFarm Institute for joining gener8tor in the discussion. Special thanks to Maureen Ragalie who organized the effort, Darius Smith for his efforts to join and to both for their support of our arts work. To Sam Rikkers for the extraordinarily kind intro. Missy Hughes for championing the summit. John Brogan for the amazing company. And everyone who collaborated to make the day such a success.