Launch Pad

check

BotFactory Wins 2015 MakerCon Launch Pad Competition

MakerCon’s Launch Pad competition culminated Tuesday in a grand prize awarded to Brooklyn-based startup BotFactory and their desktop circuit printer Squink. With Squink, BotFactory is hoping to simplify and streamline electronic prototyping by offering a single machine capable of printing circuit traces with conductive ink and gluing, picking, and placing small surface mount components automatically. […]

Continue Reading
ProtoPalette EdTech CEO Will Pemble

Maker Entrepreneurs Shine at MakerCon Launch Pad

The premise of MakerCon’s Launch Pad competition is fairly simple. 10 Maker-based startups give a  five-minute pitch of their product or idea to a panel of five judges. The judges deliberate and award a grand prize ($5,000 and free booth space at Maker Faire) to the most promising company. But from what I saw today, […]

Continue Reading
MakerCon Launch Pad Announces Finalists

MakerCon Launch Pad Announces Finalists

A startup competition aimed at shining a bright light on the creative work of hardware startups, Launch Pad offers a $5,000 prize and all of the exposure that Make: magazine, Maker Faire, and MakerCon can offer to a young company. With interest in the competition running high, the first real contest has already occurred: getting […]

Continue Reading
MakerCon Launch Pad Competition: Meet the Judges

MakerCon Launch Pad Competition: Meet the Judges

MakerCon, the only conference by and for leaders of the Maker Movement, enters its second year with a first: Launch Pad. A competition aimed at young new hardware startups with an actual product to demo and less than $3 million in funding, Launch Pad allows new Maker Pros to gain the attention of over one […]

Continue Reading