StartL

The StartL Incubator is a unique joint venture among the Hewlett, Gates, Macarthur, Kellog and Lumina foundations that has fostered public-private partnerships and resources to accelerate and launch new innovative products into the learning and education markets. StartL sources product concepts from entrepreneurs, provides both learning impact design and business planning services, and then accelerates the new ventures to market and follow on investment. StartL’s ultimate goal is to launch products that have a measurable learning impact to the entire K-12 and community college markets and begin to demonstrate new and innovative ways for teaching and learning to grow through the marketplace. StartL has recently gone through significant organizational transition and is sun setting most of its operations. This grant is a transfer of the remaining grant funds that were refunded from the former fiscal sponsor, Social Science Research Center, to StartL itself as a 501c3, and it will allow StartL to run one last cohort of companies and find a home to sustain the brand in the field. (New, $170,000/1; 25% of project budget)