The startups have gone through three months of intensive training and mentorship to reach “Launch Day,” at which each entrepreneur made a five-minute pitch to investors, entrepreneurs and potential customers.
“Their progress over the past three months has been truly remarkable and inspiring and (has taken) a tremendous amount of hard work,” said gener8tor co-founder Joe Kirgues. One of the companies is SpanDeX (pronounced SPAN-deck), started by two UW-Madison students who developed a simple typeset format for technical scientific manuscripts. The company was “in its infancy” when the students began the gener8tor program, said SpanDeX co-founder Joshua Gross.