Backyard Gig CEO, Suryanuj Gupta, was recently recognized as the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization CEO of the Year! View the full page feature in their annual report!

At 6Ninety9, small businesses are our bread and butter. They’re also near and dear to our hearts. So it’s only right that we feature some of our favorite up-and-coming startups in Delaware, which you should keep an eye out for in 2022. We believe they’re going to be big.

10KE is a scholarship initiative, founded by Alumni Ventures, to foster entrepreneurial exploration within the undergraduate community. This year, 10KE received over 100 scholarship applications and awarded $2,000 scholarships to 25 undergraduate students pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors this summer.

The last six months flew by! But our community was anything but quiet. Check out all of the accomplishments - and give kudos to your friends. Smile knowing that you are part of a community making an impact on the world.

Believe it or not, 2021 was a good year for startups. Business owners are even optimistic about the state of their companies coming into 2022.

December marks us wrapping up another challenging year, as well as nearly two full years of life altered, in one way or another, by the COVID-19 pandemic.

PHL Inno's weekly "Startup Spotlight" feature highlights founders and new businesses cropping up in the region.

The startup: Backyard Gig is a two-sided service marketplace that lets households and small businesses in a college town outsource everyday tasks to local college students.

Horn Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce a successful fall lineup of VentureOn teams. Twenty teams from across campus ranging from undergraduate to graduate students compose the newest cohort.

Nearly 500 student entrepreneurs, and their faculty advisors, were in downtown Tampa last weekend for the 38th Annual Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO) Conference and Pitch Competition.This is placeholder text. To change this content, double-click on the element and click Change Content.

Backyard Gig, the community odd-job app designed to help college students earn money even when their school schedules rule out a regular job, has found a following in a demographic that isn’t especially common for college startups: older adults.

University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and Horn Entrepreneurship are proud to announce the 37 2021 Blue Hen 17&43 Award winners.

Horn Entrepreneurship is excited to announce all of the accomplishments and successes of our community of creative thinkers, trailblazers and world-changers this quarter.

The first part of the First Founders’ Podcast Pitch Competition has finished, with a combined total of 21,521 listens for the 27 featured startups.

A Delaware-based startup accelerator, First Founders focuses on underrepresented founders, and its podcast “Innovation Included,” hosted by founder Garry Johnson III, was the platform. Through Feb. 5, each listen of a short pitch competition episode counted as a community vote for the startup being pitched in that episode, getting it closer to earning a cash prize.

Congratulations to the top-50 finalists chosen for the 2021 Baylor New Venture Competition. These outstanding finalists represent 37 universities. Best of luck on the next round!
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After multiple preliminary rounds and weeks of preparation leading up to the University of Delaware’s premiere startup funding competition, Hen Hatch’s final round took place virtually on Thursday, Dec. 3. The evening featured six competing finalist teams that have built their startups up while enrolled in undergraduate work in order to pitch before judges and attendees at Hen Hatch.

When Suryanuj “Shaun” Gupta, a University of Delaware sophomore majoring in computer science, was a freshman, he took a class in entrepreneurship. One ongoing assignment was to carry around a notebook and write down problems he saw in day-to-day life.

With Summer Founders having wrapped up with the culmination of a virtual Demo Day, many of this summer’s teams are reflecting back to discover that the intensive 12-week pre-accelerator was just the beginning of their entrepreneurial journeys.

After a record number of team submissions, the finalists for Hen Hatch 2020, Horn Entrepreneurship’s much-anticipated premier startup competition, have been announced. The following teams of finalists will include three teams from each of the Pre- and Post-Revenue tracks that will compete in the final round of the 2020 Hen Hatch competition that is set to take place virtually on Dec. 3 2020 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Need help with housework, an extra pair of hands during a move or some one-off development for your small business? University of Delaware sophomores Shaun Gupta and Shahroze Ali have the answer — an online platform they created called Backyard Gig.

After a long and intensive 12-week program, Horn Entrepreneurship's Summer Founders assembled virtually this Tuesday for the pre-accelerator’s 5th annual Summer Founders Demo Day. With 18 teams and over 130 total attendees at the virtual event, this year’s Demo Day marks the program’s biggest yet.

Early June, we found out that University of Delaware Horn Entrepreneurship will welcome its largest cohort of students to Summer Founders 2020 virtually. This group of students was composed of twenty-two startup teams totaling 34 students in the 12-week virtual pre-accelerator. During these virtual summer weeks, our founders have been receiving mentorship, education, and resources to develop and advance their concepts. Since going virtual, the groups have seen their fair share of ups and downs. The biggest include how to advance their concepts and build relationships with their teams all through a computer screen.

Summer Founders Demo Day is a big deal for the Horn Entrepreneurship summer pre-accelerator program. After a 12 weeks of cultivating their early-stage startup ideas — this year, all online — members of the cohort present their product to peers, educators and guests from the community.

University of Delaware Horn Entrepreneurship welcomes its largest cohort of students to Summer Founders 2020. Twenty-two startup teams totaling 34 students are participating in the 12-week virtual pre-accelerator in which they receive mentorship, education and resources to develop and advance their concepts.

It’s not everyday that you find yourself pitching in the presence of the “Tiger King” himself. But for participants of VentureOn’s most recent spring pitch party, the Joe Exotic cameo was just one of the quirks that came with having to pitch virtually.