On Tuesday night, we celebrated the incredible founders of ISU Startup Factory Cohort 17 and the progress they’ve made over the past 18 weeks!

A packed room of community members, local entrepreneurs, ISU faculty & staff, family, and Startup Factory alumni came together to support our 10 companies as they pitched their businesses, shared their stories, and asked for support as they move into the next phase of growth.

Although he couldn’t be there in person, ISU Startup Factory Director Peter Hong shared:

“Each company has made significant progress developing a business plan around their incredible innovative solutions to real-world problems. Entrepreneurship is a team sport. Each founder has taken full advantage of all the Startup Factory has to offer, while also helping one another.”

Want to learn more about each company? Watch the full recording of Demo Day here –> https://lnkd.in/gmxKfFZz

*A huge thank-you to our Entrepreneurs-in-Residence for their mentorship, and a special thank you to Danny O’Halloran and Andrew Kirpalani as they step into new adventures. You’ll be missed!

Congratulations to our newest alumni:
Dr. Mwende Ngie and Dr. Erick Otieno (Bioillucens), Jordan Taylor and Isaac Kalapos (BondFlow), Ahmed Ismail (XYZ Consulting), Asle Thorson (My_Name_is), Joe Driscoll and Pamela Retseck (Driscoll Land and Water Restoration), John Shaw (Rosana), Qun Wang, Chenxu Yu, and Cathy Miller (Ingesta), Santosh Pandey, Yunsoo Park, and John Wagner (LameScore), Rachel J. Eike, Bahar Hashemian Esfahani, Farhad Aghasi, and Damon Eike (WearLab Solutions), and Baker Kuehl, Vivek Garg, Michael Forrester, and Eric Cochran (Saber Chemical, Inc.)!

In Peter Hong’s words:

“You never really graduate from the Startup Factory. You move to the next milestone—and we’re here to help.”