Chicago is the next stop on Exelon Corporation’s “Dancing with
Startups,” an initiative that helps large corporations tap into the ever
growing entrepreneurial movement to accelerate their innovation and
growth through the development of partnerships with emerging growth
companies, incubators, accelerators, stealth-startups and entrepreneurs
around the country.
In its second year of the two-year program and in conjunction with the
Illinois Science & Technology Coalition’s Corporate Startup Challenge,
Exelon’s “Dancing with Startups” will host 13 emerging Illinois
start-ups for a day of company presentations and partnership discussions
on September 16 at TechNexus Venture Collaborative in Chicago. Companies
selected represent industries from the battery, technology, materials,
science, robotics, machine, communication, security, IoT, 3DPrinting,
cleantech/energy efficiency sectors.
The program, created by Dean DeBiase, managing partner of Reboot
Partners, was started last fall when it kicked-off in Chicago with some
of 1871 entrepreneurial hub’s top startups. “Overall, the reception has
been strong, with entrepreneurs interested in developing substantive
relationships that range from supplier and product partnerships to
potential investments. In addition to Chicago and other tour stops at
innovation hubs in Baltimore and San Diego, we continue to receive
interest and evaluate companies from Colorado to London and Silicon
Valley to Tel Aviv.”
“The ‘Dancing with Startups’ tour has been a win-win for Exelon and the
emerging business ecosystem,” states Sonny Garg, Chief Information and
Innovation Officer, Exelon. “Specifically, some of the early
partnerships we formed with companies here in Chicago have had a real
impact for us, like ADMCi,
a design thinking school, and ÄKTA,
a UX mobile development company, which has since become an Inc. 500
leader.”
The “Dancing with Startups” event, which is closed to the public, is
followed by a VIP and press reception, open to the press and Illinois
business, civic and government leaders, beginning at 5 p.m. at
TechNexus, 20 N. Wacker Drive, 12th Floor, Chicago, IL. To
request an invitation to the to the VIP reception please email kathleen.bresnahan@exeloncorp.com.
About Reboot Partners
Reboot
Partners is a growth acceleration group that helps organizations
tackle their most challenging issues, seize emerging market
opportunities and build global expansion partnerships—by leveraging the
entrepreneurial movement and actively curating partnerships with top
entrepreneurs, incubators, accelerators and stealth-startups in Silicon
Valley and around the world, through the Dancing with Startups program.
About Exelon
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) is the nation’s leading competitive
energy provider, with 2013 revenues of approximately $24.9 billion.
Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon does business in 48 states, the
District of Columbia and Canada. Exelon is one of the largest
competitive U.S. power generators, with more than 35,000 megawatts of
owned capacity comprising one of the nation’s cleanest and lowest-cost
power generation fleets. The company’s Constellation business unit
provides energy products and services to approximately 100,000 business
and public sector customers and more than 1 million residential
customers. Exelon’s utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to
more than 7.8 million customers in central Maryland (BGE), northern
Illinois (ComEd) and southeastern Pennsylvania (PECO). Follow Exelon on
Twitter @Exelon.
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