Two entrepreneurial-focused organizationsLaunch Tennessee and Jumpstart Foundryare partnering to sponsor a StartupBus.
Tennessee’s StartupBus will join a North American competition in which 20 entrepreneurs, coders and designers from around the state will travel by bus to San Antonio, where they will compete against entrepreneurs from eight other buses.
The Tennessee participants will form teams and ideas to pitch inSan Antonio during the StartupBus North America pitch competition.
In addition to the Tennessee bus, competing buses will come from San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Florida, Kansas, Toronto, Guadalajara and Mexico City.
Before the Tennessee bus heads to the competition,entrepreneurs will have a practice pitch round Sunday, March 2 in Chattanooga at The Company Lab.
Tennessees bus will leave from Nashville March 2 before the Chattanooga stop.
It will also stop in Birmingham, Ala.; Memphis; Jackson, Miss., Baton Rouge, La.; and Houston on the way to San Antonio.
“StartupBus is a great opportunity for Tennessees software developers and entrepreneurs to compete against leading startup markets like San Francisco and New York,” Launch Tennessee CEO Charlie Brock said in a prepared statement. “This will be a valuable experience for the buspreneurs, and we are happy to help make it happen in Tennessee.”
Launch Tennessee is a public-private partnership whose leaders focus on supporting the development of high-growth companies in Tennessee. The ultimate goal is to make Tennessee the No. 1 place in the Southeast to start and grow a company.
Launch Tennesseefocuses on four main areasentrepreneurship, commercialization, capital and outreachto support business development.
