Start Garden

5×5 Night In Person At Start Garden In Grand Rapids June 28

GRAND RAPIDS - Entrepreneur incubator Start Garden is hosting a live in person 5 X 5 Night. Startups get to pitch to 5 guest judges for 5 minutes to win $5000. More valuable than the cash, 5×5 Night gives entrepreneurs a platform to move their business ideas forward by presenting them to the public. For

By |2022-06-27T18:12:15-04:00June 27th, 2022|Entrepreneurs|

Grand Rapids Tech Startup Accepted To Top Global Accelerator, Receiving $500,000 Investment

GRAND RAPIDS - Tech start-up and Start Garden tenant Payload CMS has been accepted into and received a $500,000 investment from highly competitive tech accelerator Y Combinator. With an acceptance rate of less than 3% and alumni like Airbnb, Dropbox, Doordash, Instacart and Reddit, Y Combinator is more difficult to get into than Harvard. Since

By |2022-06-17T14:40:08-04:00June 17th, 2022|Entrepreneurs, Featured|

10 Entrepreneurs Awarded $20,000 Each At Start Garden Competition

GRAND RAPIDS — Food, technology and recycling startups were among the 10 winners to receive individual $20,000 awards at this year’s 100 competition hosted by Grand Rapids-based business incubator Start Garden LLC. Start Garden officials say this year’s event was competitive after more than 650 entrepreneurs submitted ideas to be selected for funding. In August, the

By |2021-10-10T16:07:09-04:00October 10th, 2021|Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Featured|

5×5= $25K! 

GRAND RAPIDS - Watch 5x5 Night LIVE tonight at 5pm as we give away $25,000 to one of our returning All-Stars. Each past 5x5 Night winner will have 5 minutes to tell our judges why they should take home one of Start Garden's largest grants to date! Check out the 5 presenting All-Stars below. Join

By |2021-06-30T09:39:29-04:00June 29th, 2021|Entrepreneurs|

Start Garden, Spartan Innovations Recommended As Next SmartZone Facilitators

GRAND RAPIDS — The city’s Local Development Finance Authority has recommended that Start Garden Inc. and Spartan Innovations L3C administer the Grand Rapids SmartZone business incubator through a collaborative approach. The LDFA on March 1 put out a request for proposals to run the business incubator, with the goal of bringing more diversity and equity among tech startups, as MiBiz previously reported.

By |2021-06-18T08:01:52-04:00June 17th, 2021|Entrepreneur Corner, Entrepreneurs|

Start Garden Pitch Competition Back After Year Off For COVID

GRAND RAPIDS - After taking a year off, Start Garden is bringing back a business pitch competition that awards $1,000 to 100 contestants and $20,000 to 10 finalists. The Start Garden 100 begins accepting pitches from entrepreneurs who are asked to submit a 90-second video describing their idea. Start Garden will accept entries through July 26. Judges

By |2021-05-09T18:30:45-04:00May 6th, 2021|Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Featured|

Kyyba Offers Pitch Night At Start Garden In Grand Rapids

FARMINGTON HILLS - Kyyba Innovations, Bodman PLC and TiE Detroit are hosting Pitch Club on March 29  at Start Garden in Grand Rapids. But the deadline to apply is March 4. Pitch Club is a mentoring and funding program aimed at connecting the various ecosystems and smart zones throughout Michigan. Pitch Club has ongoing monthly

By |2018-02-14T19:37:39-05:00February 14th, 2018|Entrepreneurs, Featured|

Grand Circus Opens New Office In Grand Rapids

GRAND RAPIDS - Grand Circus has partnered with Start Garden to offer coding workshops in October. But first Grand Circus is hosting a free Intro to Coding Workshop in Grand rapids on Sept. 27. RSVP. “We continue to see the need for developers increase throughout Michigan, and we’re excited to bring our .NET (C#) coding bootcamp

By |2016-09-21T18:40:03-04:00September 21st, 2016|New Products / Contracts, News|

Grand Rapids Start Garden Spins Off VC Arm To Wakestream Ventures

GRAND RAPIDS - Coming off its merger with eMerge West Michigan earlier this year, Grand Rapids-based Start Garden has spun off its venture capital arm into a new entity. Wakestream Ventures will now serve as the main investment vehicle for Start Garden, the organization founded by Amway scion Rick DeVos in 2012 as a $15

By |2016-09-01T19:34:02-04:00September 1st, 2016|Entrepreneurs, News|

5X5 Night Comes To Holland To Offer Entrepreneurs $5000 In Seed Capital

HOLLAND - A popular pitch competition pioneered by Rick DeVos, the founder of Grand Rapids Start Garden, has now been adopted by Holland and could help one entrepreneur each month fund his or her business idea. Anyone with a business idea who could use $5,000 to advance it is encouraged to enter the competition online

By |2016-06-30T14:08:07-04:00June 30th, 2016|Entrepreneurs|