Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet moved to Santiago, Chile for 6 months for Startup Chile. Jesse and Nathan have been in Chile for almost two weeks now and have started to settle in. Here’s a summary of their blog posts and press coverage since they’ve moved to Chile. Wisconsin IT Startup Relocates to Chile, Celebrates …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Badger Trips has been selected as a finalist at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards held at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. Badger Trips is one of 33 finalists selected from more than 1,500 competitors and is in the running for $150,000 in cash and services.
Defrag Conference 2010 is taking place this week in Denver, CO and Capital Entrepreneurs is attending. The Kaufmann Foundation sponsored 25 young entrepreneurs to come to the conference and four Capital Entrepreneurs members were lucky recipients: Steve Faulkner of Real Time Txts, Dan Gordon and Mike Fenchel of Momenta Technologies, and Heidi Allstop of Student S.P.I.L.L. Click through for the highlights from day one.
Capital Entrepreneurs member Student Spill was featured in an article on ReadWriteWeb which was picked up by the New York Times. Student Spill is a service used by universities to aid students in dealing with personal problems. Students can anonymously submit descriptions of their personal problems and receive responses within 24 hours from trained student supporters.
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was selected to be a part of Startup Chile. Startup Chile is a program started by the Chilean Government to bring 25 startups from around the world to Chile to help foster entrepreneurship.
Entrustet’s founders, Nathan Lustig and Jesse Davis, will be moving to Santiago November 15th to continue to run Entrustet. As part of Startup Chile, the Entrustet team will receive a $40,000 subsidy, free office space and connections into the Chilean entrepreneurship community.
Forrest Woolworth of PerBlue emailed me today to let me know that they just launched their third age of their popular mobile game Parallel Kingdom. Parallel Kingdom is a mobile, location based, MMORPG, or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. PerBlue recently closed an $800,000 funding round and has been using the money to continue to grow their flagship game, Parallel Kingdom.
Capital Entrepreneurs member UlluTek was selected to present at the Early Stage Symposium next week in Madison.
