by Forrest Woolworth | Jun 23, 2020 | Announcements, News, Press
On behalf of StartingBlock Madison, Inc., it is my pleasure to announce the selection of Nora Roughen-Schmidt as our next Executive Director. Nora emerged from a very talented pool of more than 60 candidates. Nora is a relationship builder, an accomplished...
by Marc Yarmoff | Dec 5, 2019 | Announcements, News
StartingBlock’s Entrepreneur in Residence, Nhi Lê, provides mentorship, business development and strategy, and connections to mentors and investors for StartingBlock Madison members and small-to-medium-sized businesses in the greater Madison region. She serves...
by Marc Yarmoff | Jul 24, 2019 | Announcements, News, Press
Marc Yarmoff and Nathan Eggenberger join as Community Manager and Membership Manager respectively. Over the last two months the StartingBlock Madison team has grown with two recent new hires. We are excited to announce the addition of Nathan Eggenberger as our...
by Chandra Miller Fienen | Apr 10, 2019 | Announcements
Eduardo Castillo interned at StartingBlock in Summer of 2019 as part of the CEOs of Tomorrow program. Recently, Eduardo came back and spent a few days of his spring break volunteering at StartingBlock. He sat down with Executive Director, Chandra Miller Fienen, to...
by Chandra Miller Fienen | Jan 9, 2019 | Announcements, Uncategorized
Happy 2019! Now that the holidays are over and we have rung in 2019, the StartingBlock Team thought it would be a good time to take a look back at 2018 accomplishments and what is on the horizon for 2019. 2018 Highlights We opened! After five years of work,...
by Chandra Miller Fienen | Jan 9, 2019 | Announcements, News, Showcase
StartingBlock, in partnership with the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact and Greenbush Strategy Partners, has selected eight social impact entrepreneur teams for StartingBlock’s Social Impact Initiative. The selected teams each have...
by mattnelson | Oct 11, 2018 | Announcements, News
Change-Driven Entrepreneurs, Win Free Space at StartingBlock! StartingBlock, in partnership with the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact and Associated Bank, seeks the best and brightest social impact entrepreneurs to join us as...
by Chandra Miller Fienen | Jun 28, 2018 | Announcements
We did it! We are officially open! And what a great soft opening we had last night with over 400 supporters and community members braving the tornado warning and pouring rain to join us. It was a fantastic night for the four founding partner organizations —...
by Chandra Miller Fienen | May 19, 2018 | Announcements, News, Press
StartingBlock Madison is proud to announce the appointment of eight new directors to its board as it prepares to open its doors next month. Along with immense leadership experience, the new directors bring national and regional representation to the Madison-area...
by Chandra Miller Fienen | May 12, 2018 | Announcements, News, Press
We are excited to announce twelve startups that will comprise our opening cohort of companies and form the heart of the StartingBlock community. We are proud, humbled and excited to have such an impressive, diverse group of startups at StartingBlock. The First Dozen...
by Chandra Miller Fienen | Jun 4, 2015 | Announcements, Press
American Family is a sponsor of gener8tor and started a venture capital arm, called American Family Ventures. It also partnered with Microsoft Corp. to launch an accelerator for start-ups focused on home automation, and made what organizers called a “major...
