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Ahwatukee teacher helping teens help businesses

March 19, 2018

An Ahwatukee teacher is helping Tempe High School business and engineering classes assist East Valley businesses incorporate augmented and virtual reality after winning a $20,000 Verizon Innovative Learning Grant. As

Photo of a cat lounging at La Gattara Cat Lounge.

ASU program is cat’s meow for small business

March 19, 2018

La Gattara is a cat cafe located in Tempe, AZ. Owned by Venture Devil, Melissa Pruitt. Arizona Microcredit Initiative (AMI), a nonprofit organization whose members are all ASU undergraduates, strives

Gemneo Bioscience, Vapometry Biolabs receive entrepreneurship award from Flinn Foundation

March 15, 2018

Two Venture Devils, Gemneo and Vapometry Biolabs, named as Arizona bioscience startup firms that will participate in the Flinn Foundation’s 2018 Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program.

Local entrepreneur starts grant to give back to other startups

March 5, 2018

Tisha Marie Pelletier, a serial entrepreneur, is hoping to give another startup a shot with the help of her Startup Business Grant. Tisha Marie Pelletier is familiar with how difficult it

Chase kicks off 4th annual Phoenix Startup Week with $1.1 million in grants to help underserved entrepreneurs

February 21, 2018

The Prepped program, through ASU’s Entrepreneurship + Innovation, received grant funding for community efforts that work with new and existing underserved mobile food entrepreneurs. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM)

The Gatorade Effect: Arizona universities investing millions to land the next great innovation, spinout

February 19, 2018

https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2018/02/16/the-gatorade-effect-arizona-universities-investing.html That culture of invention is alive and well at Arizona’s three public universities — Arizona State University, University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey among Techstars Startup Week PHX keynote speakers

February 16, 2018

http://downtownphoenixjournal.com/2018/02/13/arizona-gov-doug-ducey-among-phoenix-startup-week-keynote-speakers/ “Arizona State University values entrepreneurship as a core part of our institutional mission,” said Ji Mi Choi, Associate Vice President of Knowledge Enterprise Development at ASU, who is leading

ASU Year in Review

ASU’s year in review – Entrepreneurship

December 21, 2017

ASU’s entrepreneurial spirit got a shot in the arm in 2017 from some big-name campus visitors, high-profile appearances for Arizona-based inventors and a heck of a lot of patents. Read

ASU entrepreneurs earn over $250,000 in investment funding at Demo Day

December 3, 2017

Winning student startups at competition include a solar-powered skateboard rack and a platform aimed at preventing suicide. Read article here.