Funding Awards Announced for Jones + Foster Accelerator
Seven student-created startups will receive funding from the Jones + Foster Accelerator at the UW Foster School of Business. The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship program... Read More
Sponsor Spotlight: Cambia Grove & Health Innovation
If something is broken, you fix it. If that something is an imperfect health care system and you are Cambia Grove, you re-define it. Led by Executive... Read More
Resource Nights: Balancing Risk and Opportunity
Each week you can read a recap of the previous Entrepreneurship Resource Nights (Business Plan Practicum) session. This past week, instructor John Zagula (founder, Ignition Capital) led a class focused on... Read More
Inside A-Alpha Bio’s $2.8 Million Fundraising Round
Synthetic biology is not the catchiest of terms, nor the most easily understood. But it may just be the thing that revolutionizes medicine in ways... Read More
Startups Showcase Grows Connections for Student Entrepreneurs
There’s an old saying in business and life that goes: You never know when you might run into, or work with someone again. With that... Read More
Inside the Accelerator: The Jones Foundation
Michael Bauer is a tall man with a wide, infectious smile, and a huge capacity for giving. As the senior member of the board of... Read More
Seattle Strong Coffee Expands into West Coast Markets
A beverage startup created by University of Washington students hopes to make Seattle synonymous with a cooler kind of coffee. Seattle Strong Coffee announced it... Read More
Startups Welcomed into 2019 Jones + Foster Accelerator
Eight early-stage startups (detailed below) hope to take their venture to the next level in the Jones + Foster Accelerator at the UW Foster School’s Buerk... Read More
Amy Sallin Named Director of the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship
The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to officially introduce Amy Sallin as full-time director. Amy served as interim director during the 2018–2019 academic year... Read More
$80,000 Awarded to Student Ventures at 2019 Dempsey Startup Competition
A dream of preventing bridges from crumbling and harming people inspired the grand prize-winning team at the 2019 Dempsey Startup Competition. HRG Infrastructure Monitoring took... Read More