What Works: MassChallenge and Greentown Labs
(Boston, MA) - National service leader and City Year co-founder, Alan Khazei, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts will be visiting MassChallenge and Greentown Labs as part of the campaign's "What Works" tour Wednesday, July 6th at 10AM. Khazei will be touring MassChallenge with CEO John Harthorne and meeting with finalists of the MassChallenge competition to learn more about how new innovative start-up companies can create new jobs and grow our economy. He will then meet with the founders and CEOs of several companies at Greentown Labs.
MassChallenge is a $1M global startup competition and accelerator designed to catalyze the launch and success of high-growth, high-impact new businesses. MassChallenge is a 501(c)(3) and does not take equity from startups or place any restrictions on winners. President Obama honored MassChallenge in January of 2011 as one of the nation's best organizations for supporting high-growth entrepreneurs, and MassChallenge was the youngest inaugural member of the Startup America Partnership.
Greentown Labs sprung from a grassroots cluster of start-ups seeking low-cost clean energy prototyping space near MIT in the summer of 2010. The resulting collaboration between companies proved so successful that in 2011 the founders decided to expand the vision into a full-blown incubator space for clean technology start-ups. Although Greentown Labs has only been open for a very short time (May 2011) it's 14,000 square feet now provides a home for (10) start-up companies - already accounting for 40+ full‐time clean energy jobs.
MassChallenge is a $1M global startup competition and accelerator designed to catalyze the launch and success of high-growth, high-impact new businesses. MassChallenge is a 501(c)(3) and does not take equity from startups or place any restrictions on winners. President Obama honored MassChallenge in January of 2011 as one of the nation's best organizations for supporting high-growth entrepreneurs, and MassChallenge was the youngest inaugural member of the Startup America Partnership.
Greentown Labs sprung from a grassroots cluster of start-ups seeking low-cost clean energy prototyping space near MIT in the summer of 2010. The resulting collaboration between companies proved so successful that in 2011 the founders decided to expand the vision into a full-blown incubator space for clean technology start-ups. Although Greentown Labs has only been open for a very short time (May 2011) it's 14,000 square feet now provides a home for (10) start-up companies - already accounting for 40+ full‐time clean energy jobs.
ABOUT ALAN
Co-Founder of City Year, Founder of Be the Change, Inc.
Alan Khazei has pioneered ways to empower citizens to make a difference. In 1987, as a young graduate from Harvard Law School, he co-founded a nonprofit organization called City Year …
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