Augusta’s booming startups to shine at national summit event

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)- Augusta will host a conference called the Startup Champions Network Fall Summit this week.

More than one hundred startup community leaders from across the country and Canada will be in attendance.

But it’s more than a conference; it’s an opportunity to showcase the depth and diversity of Augusta’s innovation ecosystem.

Each year big and small cities are chosen to show how their businesses and small startups succeed.

Since 2012, theClubhou.se has helped launch and grow thousands of startup businesses in Augusta.

And that is why this year the summit is coming to Augusta to see its success.

“We’re spending two and a half days basically talking about what does it look like to build a startup ecosystem? And because we’ve been doing this in Augusta for over 12 years, we want to share with them some of the stories and some of the startups that have come out of our community,” said Grace Belangia, Co-Founder of Make Startups.

The Startup Champions Network Chairman of the Board, said he has learned a lot since being here in Augusta.

“I’ve been here less than 12 hours, but I learned a lot and understand what’s going on. I’ve seen all of the revitalization going on in downtown because of the storm. All this stuff is building up, went to walk down mainstreet, saw some of the local businesses and you just want to see how we can increase the energy and activity that’s going on here,” said Mark Lawrence.

This conference is from today until Friday, 8am to1pm at TheClubhouse.se.

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