v 13 Startups participated/Graduated from the Startup Accelerator making significant progress beyond the 6 Months accelerator program.
v 100+ Young Adults and Teens graduated from iStart Valley’s Entrepreneurship Program as part of E-Mindset Initiative help achieve the first Milestone.
v Expanded the Board of Advisors to include the top leaders from the Academia that includes leaders from Accelerators and Incubators in UC Davis, Harvard Medical School and Arizona State University
v Created the office of entrepreneurship in residence and appointed Tom Charman as the Global Entrepreneur in Residence and Denis Salins as the Executive Entrepreneur in Residence.
v Achieved the Bronze Seal of Transparency from Guidestar, a world’s largest non-profits reporting agency
v Launched the Human Capital Accelerator Initiative and training programs on Blockchain Technology, Neuroscience Crash Course and Python programming for young adult 30+ Participants benefited from these low-cost and high value training programs that prepare them to 4th Industrial Revolution.
v Began the exploration of the opportunities for global impacts and lay a strong foundation in the Indian Market for finding roots to launch the programs in India. Our Chairman and Founder – MJ Charmani, met with India’s leading accelerator – AXILOR and many other leading organizations in the South Asian sub-continent forging the alliances for the future.
v Gained Partnership with American Airlines Business Extra program to offer the unique advantage for the Startups to accumulate the Mileage in addition to their individual Mileage.
v iStart Valley promoted the events such as Earthack, a Hackathon celebrating Earthday and Plano Startup Weekend with total participation of 300+ Startup Enthusiasts
v iStart Valley was once again Co-Sponsor and promotor of National Small Business Week 2017 organized by SBDC America.
