UP/Start Venture
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Photo Credits: Colby Ware
The Up/Start Venture Competition, an initiative of MICApreneurship, focuses on incubating and building creative business ventures within the MICA community. Working with industry partners, UP/Start provides mentorship and capital to help nurture ideas into sustainable businesses.
On April 17, 2019, MICA hosted the finale to its 4th annual UP/Start Venture Competition, which is generously funded by The Ratcliffe Foundation. Congratulations to the five ventures receiving funding:
GPG Technologies, founded by Kyle Vaughan ’19 (Design Leadership M.B.A./M.A.) and Kenneth Wayman, is dedicated to one mission: doing the greatest possible good. The company designs sustainable solutions for people and planet. Its first product, the Saqua bottle, is a reusable water bottle that is easy to clean and elegant in its simplicity. GPG Technologies won $35,000.
Greenmount Tile, founded by Ann Zellhofer ’18 (Printmaking B.F.A.) and Dominique Hellgeth ’10 (Ceramics B.F.A.), is an architectural ceramics company that creates limited edition artwork. Its installations include art for public space, experimental structural design and suspended tile. Greenmount Tile received $35,000.
HILARIOUS COMICS, founded by RJ Sterling ’19 (Illustration and Teaching M.A.T.), won $20,000. The venture is a brand that seeks to redefine the term superhero while also highlighting underrepresented characters in comics, such as female characters, characters of color and queer characters. HILARIOUS COMICS was also awarded $5,000 for the People’s Choice Award, which was decided in real time at Wednesday night’s event.
Paint.Team, founded by Haley Manchon ’18 (Drawing and Graphic Design B.F.A.), Kelly Sullivan and Doug Moreland, received $5,000. Paint.Team’s mission is to inspire creativity and collaboration through a web application that allows users to team up and create finished works of art from anywhere in the world.
AMAZING INDUSTRIES, founded by Brett Wallace ’19 (Studio Art M.F.A.), received $5,000. The venture is a R&D startup exploring the future of work in the digital age. Through the use of investigative journalism, writing, documentary video and installation and other disciplines, AMAZING INDUSTRIES researches questions such as how are new technologies, such as AI, transforming work.
On April 17, 2019, MICA hosted the finale to its 4th annual UP/Start Venture Competition, which is generously funded by The Ratcliffe Foundation. Congratulations to the five ventures receiving funding:
GPG Technologies, founded by Kyle Vaughan ’19 (Design Leadership M.B.A./M.A.) and Kenneth Wayman, is dedicated to one mission: doing the greatest possible good. The company designs sustainable solutions for people and planet. Its first product, the Saqua bottle, is a reusable water bottle that is easy to clean and elegant in its simplicity. GPG Technologies won $35,000.
Greenmount Tile, founded by Ann Zellhofer ’18 (Printmaking B.F.A.) and Dominique Hellgeth ’10 (Ceramics B.F.A.), is an architectural ceramics company that creates limited edition artwork. Its installations include art for public space, experimental structural design and suspended tile. Greenmount Tile received $35,000.
HILARIOUS COMICS, founded by RJ Sterling ’19 (Illustration and Teaching M.A.T.), won $20,000. The venture is a brand that seeks to redefine the term superhero while also highlighting underrepresented characters in comics, such as female characters, characters of color and queer characters. HILARIOUS COMICS was also awarded $5,000 for the People’s Choice Award, which was decided in real time at Wednesday night’s event.
Paint.Team, founded by Haley Manchon ’18 (Drawing and Graphic Design B.F.A.), Kelly Sullivan and Doug Moreland, received $5,000. Paint.Team’s mission is to inspire creativity and collaboration through a web application that allows users to team up and create finished works of art from anywhere in the world.
AMAZING INDUSTRIES, founded by Brett Wallace ’19 (Studio Art M.F.A.), received $5,000. The venture is a R&D startup exploring the future of work in the digital age. Through the use of investigative journalism, writing, documentary video and installation and other disciplines, AMAZING INDUSTRIES researches questions such as how are new technologies, such as AI, transforming work.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Stephanie Chin, MICA's Entrepreneurship Evangelist at 410-225-2420 or schin02@mica.edu.
Contact Stephanie Chin, MICA's Entrepreneurship Evangelist at 410-225-2420 or schin02@mica.edu.