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After six years and 64 businesses supported through our accelerator program, we’re still starting up!
By Bizmix
Santa Fe’s one and only startup business accelerator where you can compete for cash and prizes, is seeking applicants for its 2018 entrepreneurial class! Have some amazing business dreams you’d like to pursue? Startup and stay up with bizMIX.
Since 2011, bizMIX has been vital to local entrepreneurs by providing mentorship, tools and resources to get your business started, infusions of cash, and formative prizes, such as legal, marketing and accounting support. Many former bizMIX participants continue to thrive with their businesses — some champions include: NM Hard Cider, Paper Dosa, Barrio Brinery, Shihan Fine Knives, PERK, Paleteria Oasis, Squash Blossom Local Food, and many, many more.
In 2017, bizMIX reached new heights, providing over $55,000 in cash and prizes to our bizMIX winners, with eight winners taking home between $1,000-7,000. With plans in the works, the quality of programming and prizes are expected to get even better. bizMIX Applications launched March 15, 2018 at 5:00p, and will close on April 25 at 11:59p. bizMIX is on-call to answer questions entrepreneurs have about the bizMIX program, the application, and will cheerlead all new business ideas and encourage you to apply to bizMIX!
More on our 2017 winners!
The bizMIX accelerator runs from May through September 2018, giving participants the chance to create opportunities, develop valuable relationships and a network of support. MIX doesn’t want a stake in anyone’s company, it wants entrepreneurs to have a stake in the Santa Fe community.
bizMIX firmly believes in ‘failing fast’ so as to ensure if the business you’re pursuing isn’t quite the right market fit, pivot to the next big dream. The program was created to support tireless ideators, and bizMIX is here to support local entrepreneurs and aid them in pursuing start up businesses. You can apply through April 25th at mixsantafe.com/bizmix!
Once more we gotta give it up for the 2017 winners and our sponsors:
Paleteria OASIS (Erika Castaneda & Omar )
Length Width Height (Robert Nachman)
Mud Hub (Rod Gesten)
Santa Fe Lobo Cheer (Cynthia Hale)
OneForNeptune (Nick Mendoza)
Madre Foods (Katelyn Hilburn)
Laser Loot (Randy Castillo)
Click Clogs (Lily Love)
Root 66 (Jackie Shane, JC Corcoran, Dave Holland)
1905 Magazine (Mariah Thomas & Darnell Romero)
Santa Fe Pub Crawls (Julia Abbiss)
Vintage Airstream Renovations (Patrick Collingwood)
Fun Times in the Chickenhouse (Andy Primm, Karina Wilson)
The Guerrilla Filmmakers Guild (Bevin Carnes)
THE truck (Victoria Brunei
EyeAm (Aaron Johnston)
Dandelion Guild (Calixte Raifsnider)
2017 Sponsors: LANL Feynman Center for Innovation – Venture Acceleration Fund, Five & Dime General Store, Thornburg Investment Management, Los Alamos National Bank, Gemini Rosemont Realty (Garfield Street Foundation), Santa Fe County, Santa Fe Community Foundation, Meow Wolf, Positive Energy Solar, Century Bank, Christus St. Vincent, New Mexico Bank and Trust, Nusenda, and the PNM – Century of Service grant.
