A Productive Newsletter: Kicking Off 2019!
Impact Across Sectors
Porductive is fortunate to work across several impact areas. From education all the way through sustainability, we’ve been helping our clients drive impact through the acceleration of technology startups in those areas. And we’re accelerating ourselves by taking it up a level early this year with big updates on our programs with AT&T and DIRECTV Latin America.
AT&T’s $1m Student Skills Challenge
Productive has signed on for a fifth year in a row to help AT&T administer its Aspire Accelerator program. This year, we’re getting a little more focused in our startup search to multiply the acceleration we can deliver. We’re doing this by committing $1m to go toward startups focusing on directly building student skills that will prepare them for STEM careers in the future.
“AT&T is offering money for eight companies and nonprofits that focus on ways to prepare students for careers, including STEM fields. AT&T aims to give each winner a $100,000 investment along with $25,000 to cover costs of its Aspire Accelerator.”
So, if you are an edtech startup founder helping to build student skills, or know one that should apply, please have them reach out to me directly or apply here.
DirecTV’s Best Use of Technology for Sustainability Prize
We're joining DirecTV Latin America on their second year of sponsoring the Best Use of Technology in Sustainability Award. This award is part of the largest green innovation competition in Latin America - Los Premios Latinoámerica Verde - and the 3 winners of the prize were chosen from thousands of applicants across Latin America.
DirecTV is flying the three winning startups to The Bay Area where they will participate in a mini-acceleration workshop designed by Productive. We'll take our fully customized approach to acceleration to help the winners make in-roads to potential Bay Area customers, partners, and investors.
Please Join Us! We'll be hosting a LatAm Sustainable Tech Pitch Award Event with our partners at Runway to highlight the three winners. Come join us for some networking, food, and drinks!
What Are We Reading?
Pardon me, but this section will be a little self serving today :) Our series on accelerator design was picked up by The Startup - Medium's largest publication for makers. They've re-published our first two entries and they will be publishing the rest of the series as it comes out. There'll be a third post next week, so make sure to subscribe to the Productive account so you don't miss out!
Where Will We See You Next?
We'll be at the Corporate Accelerator Forum's workshop on "Metrics, Storytelling, & Communication for Corporate/Startup Programs". We've been involved with this group since the beginning and we're very excited to continue the learning with others in our field. See you there?
Please Join Us for the "LatAm Sustainable Tech Pitch Award Event" at the Runway incubator to talk about Latin American innovation and sustainability in general over some light food and drinks!