Salt lake City is the capital of Utah and it’s most populous city, and was announced as one of the best cities to found a startup.
(source- Datafox, December, 2015)

Working with startups is unlike anything else. The passion and drive of entrepreneurs is contagious.

An estimated 93% of DJs still use printed songbooks and paper-slips for patrons. This becomes an exhaustive expense for the DJ and venue. The resulting pains are a negative experience for patrons and result in lower dwell times, less repeat patronage, and fewer dollars spent in-venue.

Chattanooga,TN, known as the “Gig City” ranks number 4 in the country as a top city and entrepreneurial ecosystem for startups. (source – wallethub, April 2015)

Our mission at Seed Sumo is “Discover & Ignite”. Our objectives are to find high growth startup founders and to help them build the company they dream about.

There is plenty of data reporting that women do not grow businesses as big, nor have as much access to capital as men. We are working to reverse that trend with an intense focus on the CEO and her company.

Each year, top early stage companies graduating from each of the nine accelerator programs in Tennessee are nominated to participate in The TENN, the state’s Master Accelerator Program. The nominees then enter a multi-tier screening process

If I was to do it again, the only difference would be to start fundraising earlier. Researching and making the right connections with investors is time consuming and the length of time to get funded is longer than we originally anticipated.

We’re motivated on a daily basis by the immense problem we’re solving and the very personal way it affects peoples’ lives.

Micronic Technologies, a company that began in 2008, is a developing innovative technology to provide clean water from any source.