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Mark Your Calendar
The Economic Climate for Renewable Energy in Missouri - June 8
ITEN 2nd Thursdays - June 9
(at Maggiano's Brentwood)
The Strange Loop Conference
(September 18-20 2011)
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ITEN NEWS
"T-Rex" Space to Launch Downtown
The Downtown Community Improvement District (CID) , Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA)and St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) are finalizing a series of agreements that will provide attractive, low cost office space for IT start up businesses in the Railway Exchange building ("The REX") at Olive and 7th streets. Called "T-Rex" ("IT at the Railway Exchange"), the 12,000 sf space will also be home to Startup St. Louis, a new national IT Accelerator program owned and managed by Capital Innovators. The agreements should be completed soon and the space is planned to be available beginning August 1. Businesses interested in leasing space at T-Rex should contact Jim Brasunas (jbrasunas@itenstl.org) for additional information.
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Company News
Hexagrid Partnership Announces Indonesia's Largest On-Demand Public Cloud Offering
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Lintas Media Danawa (LMD), a subsidiary of Lintasarta, Indonesia's top data center services provider and second largest telecom, has leveraged Hexagrid's VxDatacenter cloud computing platform to launch the country's largest on-demand public cloud offering. (Hexagrid is a recent graduate of ITEN's Mock Angel program.)
Lintas Media Danawa (LMD), a subsidiary of Lintasarta, announces the launch of Indonesia's largest on-demand public cloud offering, Cozy. FULL ARTICLE
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Mentor Spotlight
Sultan Meghji
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Originally from the Midwest, I've traveled and lived in many places in the US and Europe. Recently, I've made St. Louis my adopted hometown and joined a local IT company, Appistry (more on that in a moment). I'm an alumni of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including a stint at NCSA. In my work career, I've spent time in academia (at UIUC and Northwestern), in financial services (ABN AMRO and American Express), biotech (Monsanto), consulting (Various) and in the startup world. I've held a number of Chief Architecture, CIO and CTO roles in both small startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. Along the way, I've made a career of doing two things: 1) Bringing innovative technologies to market and 2) Turning around organizations that aren't being as successful as they could be. My goal is to live at the intersection of good business and better technology.
My work as an ITEN mentor is currently focused on the Mock Angel and the Technology & Architecture programs. With the Mock Angel program I get to apply the business experience I have to startups, refining their message, pitch and value proposition. With Technology & Architecture I get to apply my 20 years of technology experience to helping build the best solutions possible. Growing up in the industry as I did, finding mentors was incredibly difficult and being that resource to the startup community here in St. Louis is tremendously rewarding. I've also recently accepted to join the new ITEN Mentor Board as an advisor for the continuing development of ITEN.
Appistry, where I now work, is a fantastic opportunity to apply my desire to build up IT in St. Louis. We are creating specific solutions on top of the advanced Appistry platform, driving towards faster and cleaner paths to market. Currently we are focusing on adding Life Sciences solutions to our existing solutions sets in Defense, Intelligence, Logistics and Financial Services. Our early results in life sciences around accelerating the analysis of genomic data are incredible. We are applying high performance computing, cloud computing and analytics in an integrated solution unlike anything else in the market today.
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Company Spotlight
Quartzy is headed to Y Combinator this summer!
Quartzy, a company in the ITEN network, is garnering wide acceptance in the Life Science community. Quartzy is an online lab management tool that offers a new way to streamline the acquisition and cataloguing of reagents and other supplies that scientists need to conduct experiments.
A rapidly growing user base of thousands of scientists at hundreds of institutions use Quartzy daily to manage their labs. As scientists flock to this site, it is becoming the standard way to organize an academic lab. On the business front, Quartzy provides a novel advertising channel for vendors in this space. In addition, Quartzy can customize its software for biotech companies on a contract basis.
Y Combinator, the premier technology incubator located in Mountain View California, boasts such graduates as Dropbox and Scribd. The applicants for the Y Combinator summer 2011 session were incredibly competitive which is why the Quartzy founders are extremely honored and excited at the opportunity participate in this summer. To learn more about Quartzy visit: http://www.quartzy.com.
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