{"id":35009,"date":"2024-11-04T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35009"},"modified":"2024-11-04T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T21:23:37","slug":"demo-day-highlights-7th-group-of-gvl-starts-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/demo-day-highlights-7th-group-of-gvl-starts-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Demo Day highlights 7th group of GVL Starts founders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under bright stage lights, 17 business ventures each had their moment in the spotlight during this year\u2019s Demo Day, the culmination of the nine-week GVL Starts.<\/a> The program, by Furman University\u2019s Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, serves as an early-stage incubator for companies between the \u201cnapkin phase\u201d and recently launched ventures.<\/p>\n

On Demo Day participants pitched their ventures for the chance to win one of three $5,000 startup grants. Six founders pitched their business ideas in front of a crowd of more than 200 during the Oct. 17 event.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Sherian Wells pitches her business, My Curvy Wellness, at The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship GVL Starts Demo Day event at the Greenville ONE Center on Thursday, October 17, 2024.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kylie Cammon, co-founder of Rabbit Hole Digital<\/a>, took home one of the $5,000 grants. Rabbit Hole is a social marketing platform intended to make managing an effective social presence easier for artists, entertainers and their teams. The California-style breakfast burritos of Richard Mataafa\u2019s Daylight Burritos<\/a> popup earned him one of the grants. Dr. Sherian Wells\u2019 health practice, My Curvy Wellness<\/a>, cinched the third grant by offering women a holistic health practice and medspa.<\/p>\n

This year, The Hill Institute presented its first \u201cPartner of the Year\u201d award to Greenville City Economic Development Corporation President and CEO Samuel Konduros, for the group\u2019s continued support of the institute since its launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Demo Day gives participants of the GVL Starts program, run by Furman University’s Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the chance to pitch their businesses to win one of three $5,000 startup grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":34810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3065],"tags":[3108,157,1111,2753],"class_list":["post-35009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hill-institute-for-innovation-and-entrepreneurship","tag-demo-day","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-gvl-starts","tag-hill-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35014,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35009\/revisions\/35014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}