We are hearing a ton of buzz from CES about the latest and greatest innovative products from some of the world’s top companies everything from the world’s first human flying drone, to refrigerators where you can buy groceries from fridge. All of these ideas had to start somewhere and today we are seeing the innovators behind these great products starting younger and younger.
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The Thiel Foundation today named 25 people into the 2017 class of Thiel Fellows. The two-year fellowship provides young entrepreneurs with $100,000 and mentorship from the Thiel Foundation’s network of technology entrepreneurs, investors, and scientists. Launched in 2011, the program encourages fellows to pursue full-time entrepreneurship instead of going to college.
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From indoor farming to super-efficient cooling systems, these young founders have some of the world’s toughest problems on their agendas
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Each year, the Kairos Society, the San Francisco organization for entrepreneurs interested in solving global problems, offers up its list of top global entrepreneurs under the age of 25. This year, 1,000 early stage startups were referred from over 60 countries. And just 50 made the cut.
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A small company in Ithaca, led by a 19-year-old entrepreneur, has a robot they say can clean floors and will make beds. The robot is still in prototype stage, but the team behind Maidbot is hoping to bring the “Rosie” from The Jetsons-type machine onto the market within the next year.
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‘Rosie’ by Maidbot is an autonomous floor cleaner that provides safe and cost-efficient automated solutions to the hospitality industry.
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From June 20 to 23, hospitality and technology professionals from all over the world converged in New Orleans, La., for HITEC 2016 to make connections, be introduced to emerging technologies, and learn about new trends in the hospitality technology space. The biggest HITEC ever, the show featured 342 vendors, three keynote speeches from technology and data experts, and a packed schedule of technology showcases and super sessions covering everything from “The Digital Customer Journey” to “Bridging Generational Divides.” There were 6,395 attendees from 65 countries at the event.
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Student Startup Madness is a nationwide tournament for college student run digital media startups, culminating with the Entrepreneurial Eight national finals at SXSW. Each student company had 4 minutes to pitch to the audience followed by 7 minutes of Q&A from a panel of judges.
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Maidbot, an Ithaca-based startup run by a Cornell student that combines hospitality and robotics, has gained attention in several competitions around the country, most recently competing against 14 other college startups in the RECESS Pitch Competition earlier this month.
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