Innovate Arkansas Featured in This Week's Arkansas Business
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Each month, Arkansas Business profiles a client firm of Innovate Arkansas in its print edition.
The January profile ran this week and featured not a client startup but...wait for it...IA itself.
Innovate Arkansas and the growth of the tech startup scene in the state over the course of 2014 is the focus of this month's Innovate page in AB.
An excerpt:
Since its creation, IA has received almost 500 applications and as of the third quarter of 2014 had signed agreements with 213 of them. Plus, Innovate Arkansas Director Tom Dalton said there are 38 startups in the IA pipeline being reviewed for inclusion as Innovate Arkansas client firms.
Those firms represent all four corners of the state, and through the ARK Challenge startup accelerator administered by Innovate Arkansas, several states and countries as well.
Fifty-five IA client firms call northwest Arkansas home, led by 38 in Fayetteville and nine in Benton County. Central Arkansas is home to 38 client firms — 32 in metro Little Rock and four in Conway.
Full thing here.
Plus, the week's AB includes a guest commentary from Steve Patterson of the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association, which counts several IA startups among its membership.
Patterson discusses the growing number of advanced energy jobs in the state. Full thing here.
And in case you missed it, AB.com has this story on WattGlass, a UA startup that received a federal grant to further develop its nano coating for glass.