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Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Program Mentors Startups to Success
14Oct By Iris GonzalezNo Comments
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Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Program Mentors Startups to Success

Geekdom, a downtown San Antonio co-working community, hosts a variety of programs designed to help founders build successful startups. Six teams will showcase their progress after participating in Geekdom's Pre-Accelerator program.Since 2018, Geekdom has run the annual six-week program to help local startups prepare for accelerator applications or early-stage investment. As founders practice their pitches, area tech leaders and investors mentor the teams in weekly workshops. The teams learned how to refine their business model, focus their marketing, and polish their pitch decks. (Watch the recorded pitch videos of the 2022 pre-accelerator teams here.)Christian Garcia founded Developmate, a software platform that maps static and streaming real estate location data for developer...
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Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Program Mentors New-Member Startups
19Jul By Iris Gonzalez3 Comments
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Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Program Mentors New-Member Startups

Geekdom, a downtown San Antonio co-working community, is seeing the changing demographics of people launching companies since the COVID-19 pandemic started in March 2020.In its fourth year, the six-week pre-accelerator program started working with six early-stage companies in early June. Five out of six are helmed by new Geekdom members who have joined over the past year. Two companies got their start during Geekdom's first-ever virtual Startup Weekend held in December of 2020. Four of the six companies are run by female founders.The free Geekdom Pre-Accelerator program held once a year helps prepare local startups for accelerator applications or early-stage investment. Area tech leaders and investors mentor the teams, who also attend weekly workshops and practice in pitch session...
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Geekdom 2020 Pre-Accelerator Startups To Pitch at Virtual Demo Day
11Sep By Iris GonzalezNo Comments
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Geekdom 2020 Pre-Accelerator Startups To Pitch at Virtual Demo Day

For the startups participating in this year's pre-accelerator program, Geekdom did what practically everyone has done since the COVID-19 pandemic closed down public gatherings starting in March. The downtown San Antonio co-working community improvised. That means that the 2020 Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Demo Day will be viewed online Sept. 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. Register to view the pitches from the seven startups here.For the third year of the startup program, Geekdom delayed its typical spring start until July 23 and ran the program until Aug. 27. Adapting the pre-accelerator program into a virtual mentoring curriculum helped broaden Geekdom's local mentoring network, said program manager Joyce Deuley.Investors from Active Capital, RealCo Longterm Accelerator, Dura Software, and Li...
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Geekdom Announces 2020 Participants in Pre-Accelerator Program
25Mar By Iris GonzalezNo Comments
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Geekdom Announces 2020 Participants in Pre-Accelerator Program

Geekdom announced the San Antonio startups selected for its 2020 pre-accelerator program Wednesday.The seven startups are:EvoSecurity is an affordable, flexible, and reliable multi-factor authentication solution for on-premise, hybrid, cloud, and multi-cloud service providers. Its goal is to take the complexity out of protecting managed service providers and their clients. Allosense is an internet of things startup producing a fleet of always-connected sensors and asset trackers to help businesses and governments manage their supply chains and reduce waste or loss of high-value assets. ClosetMelody is a digital styling app that offers suggestions on how to style your looks using the clothes in your wardrobe. Buzu Cards helps students learn standardized testing concepts u...
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After the Geekdom Pre-Accelerator, FloatMe App Secures $25K from Alamo Angels
5Jun By Iris GonzalezNo Comments
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After the Geekdom Pre-Accelerator, FloatMe App Secures $25K from Alamo Angels

The Alamo Angels have committed to investing at least $25,000  in early-stage financing equity funding for FloatMe, Alamo Angels executive director Cat Dizon announced at the investors’ event Wednesday evening.Founder Josh Sanchez experienced firsthand paying for unexpected car expenses with a payday loan for $200 that turned into a $250 payback balance after only two weeks. Sanchez started thinking of less expensive options to access money short term and developed the FloatMe app in 2017 to enable workers to get a “float” or short-term advance on their next paycheck without paying hefty fees or interest.The other startup to receive a $25,000 Alamo Angels investment was Checkups,  a San Antonio-based startup provides bond agencies and local municipal jurisdictions a mobile applicat...
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Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Participant Checkups Scores $25K from Alamo Angels
5Jun By Iris GonzalezNo Comments
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Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Participant Checkups Scores $25K from Alamo Angels

The Alamo Angels have committed to investing at least $25,000  in early-stage financing equity funding for Checkups, Alamo Angels executive director Cat Dizon announced at the investors’ event Wednesday evening. The San Antonio-based startup provides bond agencies and local municipal jurisdictions a mobile application and software platform for monitoring clients who are out on bond while awaiting trial.Founder Enrique Pavlioglou was one of six San Antonio startups participating in Geekdom’s six-week pre-accelerator program. Josh Sanchez's FloatMe was the other pre-accelerator startup participant that also received a $25,000 Alamo Angels investment."Alamo Angels saw a huge opportunity to invest in both companies and add them to our growing portfolio of local startups," Alamo Angels ...
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Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Program Prepares Startups for Early-Stage Funding
15May By Iris GonzalezNo Comments
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Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Program Prepares Startups for Early-Stage Funding

Six San Antonio startups are using the opportunity to learn over the past six weeks from seasoned entrepreneurs and experts what it takes to grow their company. Coworking space Geekdom has been working closely with founders participating in its 2019 Pre-Accelerator program cohort since early April.The six teams will pitch at the Geekdom Pre-Accelerator Demo Day May 22 at the Aztec Theater. Register at the event link for a free ticket.The six teams include the following startups.Drones of Prey seeks to protect people and businesses against aerial terrorist attacks from commercialized drones by conducting risk assessments and creating defense strategies. Ah!Count helps accounting firms streamline operations and increase client security through its affordable document managem...
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Geekdom’s New Pre-Accelerator Program to Mentor 6 Startups
10Apr By Iris Gonzalez1 Comment
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Geekdom’s New Pre-Accelerator Program to Mentor 6 Startups

What happens when there are over 1,700 entrepreneurially-minded members developing new businesses in a co-working space? The demand for early-stage startup programs surges.In response, the downtown San Antonio co-working space Geekdom launched its new Pre-Accelerator and announced the first 6 startups to be admitted to the program Tuesday. Designed to prepare local San Antonio startups for an accelerator or seed investments, the program allows startups to continue working on their product while learning from expert mentorship.The companies include the following:Scraffic partners with retail software providers to offer retailers valuable foot traffic in stores of all sizes.Ractive develops interactive virtual reality virtual training content using “gamification” to develop g...
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