Ed Rieker, owner of 151 Locust in Avondale Estates, recently completed the National Business Incubation Association’s Incubator Management Certificate Program. Mr. Rieker is the only current NBIA certified Incubator Manager in Georgia.
NBIA officials say that receiving a certificate is a mark of distinction verifying mastery of incubator governance, services and policies. “We thought it would be helpful for NBIA to establish a base of knowledge that every incubator manager should know, regardless of the type of incubator they run,” said Tom Strodtbeck, NBIA director of events and training. “The certificate program is a way for people to track their progress in gaining that knowledge.”
AccelerEyes today announced that its
Jacket software platform for MATLAB®, including its new 1.4 release, will support the latest NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPU) based on the
Fermi architecture (Tesla 20-series and GeForce GTX 4xx-series). NVIDIA’s release of the Fermi architecture brings with it 448 computational cores, increased IEEE-754 floating-point arithmetic precision, error-correcting memory for reliable computation, and enhanced memory caching mechanisms.
ATDC/TAG CapVenture is a unique and powerful training program to educate and equip early stage company executives for smarter and more productive capitalization of their business. The program is optimized for those seeking their first institutional round of financing.
In 2010, for the first time, CapVenture will be split into two tracks: “Series A” and“Seed”. The Series A track is designed for those companies ready for venture capital. The Seed track is for those companies who need capital but are not yet ready for venture capital.
Through participation in this program, companies will:
- Gain valuable practical knowledge about the various forms of capital available to early-stage technology companies.
- Sharpen the participating company’s business and financing strategy to increase the probability of successful capitalization.
- Assess their companies’ fit with various forms of capital.
- Gain practical tips on the process of capital raising that will increase their odds of success and limit unproductive activities.
- Gain peer and mentor relationships to facilitate valuable connections for their businesses.
- Provide prepared participants an opportunity to meet investors.
The 2008 forum led to requests for 59 meetings by investors. The top CapVenture “Series A” track companies will have an additional opportunity to present to dozens of investors through an automatic slot during the ATDC/VentureLab early-stage forum at Venture Atlanta.
Please, click here to register
ATDC Member Firm, Evoca, recently expanded its international reach by adding France, Denmark, Finland, and Norway. This expansion brings Evoca access to 28 International cities and 34 cities in the United States.
To learn more about Evoca, please go to their website, or visit them on YouTube.
ATDC is proud to announce the PepsiCo10. In this first-of-a-kind initiative, PepsiCo will select up to 10 aspiring entrepreneurial groups, match them with industry mentors, and join with them to activate pilot programs with PepsiCo brands. PepsiCo, in conjunction with global venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners and social media publication Mashable, is looking for up to 10 emerging technologies and innovations focused on:
• Social Media and Marketing Communications
• Mobile Marketing: On the Phone and Beyond
• Place-Based and Retail Experiential Marketing: Be Where Your Customers Are
• Digital Video and Gaming
For more information, please visit the event website.
ATDC member company, Evoca recently received a glowing review from Savannah reporter, Orlando Montoya. Mr. Montoya expressed excitement about how Evoca increased his productivity and reach in the field.
Evoca is an innovative audio web services company that makes it easy for mainstream users to create, organize, share and search audio recordings.
For the full article as it went out to the news wires please follow this link.
The recent ATDC Startup Showcase and 30th Anniversary Celebration was a huge success! We had over 500 attendees and several great speakers, including Georgia Tech President, Bud Peterson, and EII’s Stephen Fleming. Congratulations again to CommerceV3, Endgame Systems, Izenda, Purewire, and all previous graduates on their success and graduation from the ATDC.
Techdrawl, the Georgia Tech news team, and ATDC’s very own Lance Weatherby were in attendance to cover the event.
We want to thank all staff, attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors for helping make the event so great.