At the point when San Antonio Startup Week began in 2016, it had around 50 learning meetings and 500 individuals in participation. On first day of the season of 2023′s SASW, it has developed to north of 75 learning conditions, in excess of 1,000 individuals enrolled, and more than $300,000 granted in five different business pitch rivalries.
Saige Thomas is a business visionary with Texas Design Week and one of the many individuals topping off the highest point of the Ice Pinnacle on day 1 of San Antonio Startup Week.
“How to better develop your business, how to meet other people, how to network — it’s definitely a place to learn as a business owner and as an entrepreneur,” Thomas said of SASW.
Geekdom President Charles Woodin said Startup Week “unites a wide range of individuals from various different backgrounds that help development, business, and simply the social effect that we’re seeing across the entire whole city.”
Woodin sees firsthand organizations starting as new companies and prospering.
“There are more people interested in starting something new, building on an idea that they’ve already had or their side hustle,” Woodin said.
One of those organizations — Irys — began a genuinely new thing.
“We developed the 311 system here in San Antonio,” said Beto Altamirano, who began Irys in 2016.
Irys had a little office in Geekdom however has developed huge amounts at a time.
“We’re more than that. That’s how we started. Now, we work with the (Department of Defense) on data analytics. We also work with engineering companies that are studying the built environment to better understand the infrastructure of cities,” Altamirano said.
The city is plainly developing, particularly nearby close to Geekdom, and the mission of San Antonio Startup Week is to set the establishment for private companies so they can develop with our city.
“Supporting startups further along their journey and supporting small businesses, no matter what stage of growth that they’re at, to be able to find the resources that exist here in San Antonio,” Woodin said.
Woodin added that there has been colossal advancement in the help. Quite a while back, they planned to send off 500 new companies, which they figured they would arrive at in 10 years. They are now at 279.
Concerning Beto Altamirano and Irys, they are flourishing, and he has guidance for any business person out there.
“We’ve got to try, try and try again, and we can’t give up,” Altamirano said.