Enclavix, LLC announces Dates and Open Application for 2024 VentureWrench Launch! Program
Opportunity for Utah’s SBIR/STTR companies to improve their product-market fit and prepare for success in early 2024
Salt Lake City, UT (March 6, 2024) – The VentureWrench™ Startup Community from Enclavix™, LLC announces the second year of the VentureWrench Launch!™ Program for 2024.
The fully sponsored VentureWrench Launch! program for SBIR/STTR applicants and awardees in Utah is based on the well known Lean Launchpad curriculum pioneered by Steve Blank and his colleagues at Stanford University. This program is fully sponsored and is designed to help Utah small businesses which have applied for, received or are receiving funds from the federal SBIR/STTR (SBIR) programs to prepare to take successful products to market by guiding them through the development of a well informed business model and refining their product-market fit.
This program is sponsored by the Utah Innovation Center, housed within the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity. The Utah Innovation Center has partnered with the VentureWrench team from Enclavix to conduct this program with a cohort of up to 6-8 Utah SBIR/STTR recipients, to assist them in commercializing their technologies.
There is no cost to participants, all costs have been covered by the Utah Innovation Center and funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. The 2024 program will run from March 22, 2024 to May 31, 2024. Applications are open and gather basic information about the company and the solution and take about 10 minutes to complete.
Enclavix is an Artificial Intelligence software company that creates online tools to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship by applying artificial intelligence, machine learning and related technologies to identify and curate the highest quality, most useful resources to coach and support startup entrepreneurs and to tackle intellectual property challenges. The company has received over $1.2 million in funding from the National Science Foundation through the SBIR program to allow the launch of the AI – powered VentureWrench Library. The VentureWrench Startup Community combines artificial intelligence and advanced software with rich content to help entrepreneurs bring capital into their business, solve problems, answer questions and help them move their business forward.
The startup coaches and creators of the VentureWrench Startup Community, the team at Enclavix, LLC, are experienced entrepreneurs who have started multiple businesses, raised millions of dollars in investment from investors and the SBIR program, and sold their prior company to a public firm. Our CEO has also mentored and provided grant funding for dozens of emerging technology companies through her public service running a State funding program. The team is passionate about entrepreneurship and its potential for entrepreneurs and for the economy.
The VentureWrench Startup Community builds on the AI-powered VentureWrench Library at Library.VentureWrench.com, also free for entrepreneurs, and adds rich content including E-books, checklists, guides, the teams StartupNotes blog, online courses and workshops to help entrepreneurs get to success more quickly. Entrepreneurs can access all of this and more at VentureWrench.com.
Enclavix designed the VentureWrench Library to help entrepreneurs find the information they need – from the best resources – as quickly as possible. Enclavix appreciates the support of the National Science Foundation which provided funding for a portion of this work.
Learn more at https://venturewrench.com/ or https://venturewrench.com/about/.