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Find Your FORGE: FORGE at Roy Place
FORGE provides venture resources in several locations throughout Arizona. FORGE currently has three locations on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. FORGE also maintains locations in downtown Tucson, Phoenix, and Yuma. Each week we will be featuring a different FORGE location and the resources available.
This week, get to know our flagship location - FORGE at Roy Place!
Located in the heart of downtown Tucson’s urban corridor at the corner of Stone and Pennington, FORGE at Roy Place is easily accessible via the streetcar making it an ideal location to connect the campus to the community. The 22,000-square-foot Spanish colonial revival building was designed and built by architect Roy Place nearly a century ago. Today it serves as a dedicated resource hub for campus, community, and capital.
As part of our Thursday series, FORGE at Roy Place hosts presentations from 9am - 10am, community co-working from 10am - 4pm, and on-site mentoring from 10am - 12pm. In addition to FORGE programming, the building also houses important community partners including Startup Tucson, BlueStone Venture Partners, and the Tucson City of Gastronomy. On Thursdays, you'll find drop-in mentoring available from our dedicated FORGE Mentor in Residence John Achoukian, and beginning November 10th receive mentoring for food-based ventures from onsite Tucson City of Gastronomy mentors. Be sure to check out our calendar of Thursday events and reserve your spot!
FORGE at Roy Place also hosts several resident startup companies as part of the FORGE Ahead™ program. Many go on to national caliber accelerators, significant venture capital raises, or acquisitions.
As part of the mission to be a resource to the campus and the community, FORGE at Roy Place offers boardroom, classroom, and reception spaces. If you are interested in reserving space for an upcoming event, please contact our events assistant at hollybrenna@arizona.edu. Visit FORGE at Roy Place to see what resources are available for you!
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Campus Spotlight
Be sure to join us for next week’s Thursdays at FORGE event!
Building powerful partnerships is key to any successful venture! How do we effectively reach out and collaborate with potential partners in our community? Join Julie Barbier Bularzik and Kelly King to explore ways to connect and collaborate with the University of Arizona campus community. Let’s explore what is possible – together! In addition to learning about how to connect with campus, we will be hosting a drawing for TWO passes to DUSK Music Festival.
Stick around after the event for networking and complimentary co-working in our upstairs workhub. We will have onsite mentors available from 10:00 – 12:00. Find the venture resources you need with FORGE!
Register here for campus spotlight
Biomedical Scholarship Deadline Extended!
FORGE is proud to announce updates to the launch of its Biomedical Entrepreneur Startup Scholarship and Residency opportunity for Summer 2023. The new scholarship and residency program is open to undergraduate students, in any academic program, with an interest in creating a startup concept that improves health outcomes. This includes any startups that focus on technologies, or processes, that advance services and health in the industry to ultimately improve patient outcomes. The program is now available to full-time Pima Community College (PCC) students, provided that they have committed to attending the University of Arizona in the Fall 2023 semester.
As a result of this exciting announcement and combined with the overwhelming response to the scholarship and residency program, the application deadline has been extended from October 28, 2022, to November 13, 2022.
Southern Arizona Economic Impact Summit
Join us for SEIS - The Southern Arizona Economic Impact Summit. We will be highlighting projects and programs delivering tangible economic impact in Southern Arizona and raising awareness of important collaboration opportunities. The summit will open with a keynote address and Q& A with Jim Rounds. Mr. Rounds regularly provides advice to policymakers at the State Capitol, mayors throughout the state as well as city council members, county board members, and other public and private sector leaders in the community.
Following the keynote are Economic Impact presentations from:
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Pima Community College
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Startup Tucson
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City of Tucson
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Community Investment Corporation
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Pima County
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University of Arizona Center for Innovation
Also - a special highlight from Tech Launch Arizona.
Join us afterward for networking and a catered reception from Seis Kitchen and hosted bar sponsored by FORGE.
TENWEST Impact Festival
Make sure to check out all the incredible events for TENWEST and don’t forget to stop by on November 3rd during the Happy Hour and Awards Celebration from 5-7pm to visit with FORGE! FORGE is also a proud sponsor of the IdeaFunding IMPACT Pitch Room on Thursday, November 3, from 10:30AM - 12:30PM at the TCC Breakout Room (204). Five teams will each have five minutes to pitch their companies to a panel of three industry judges. Judges will then have five minutes to ask questions of each presenter. The finalists are AZLuminaria, Kids Chemical Solutions, Nopalito Network, Earnest House and Thrive and Grow Farms. They were selected from over 100 applicants and have already made it through two rounds of down-selects to be in this vertical pitch room. Winner will be announced on the main stage during the evening portion of IdeaFunding starting at 6pm.
Festival passes are available online here. UA Students and FORGE supporters can use the promo code UAFORGEfor a 10% discount.
Upcoming Events
November 1st - 5th - TENWEST Impact Festival
November 10th - Campus Spotlight
November 14-20th - Global Entrepreneurship Week
November 15th - CrEATe Cafe with Brach Drew
November 15th - Southern Arizona Economic Impact Summit
November 16th - STEAM FORGE Grand Opening Celebration
November 17th - FORGE Fireside with Allie Burns, CEO, Village Capital
November 18th - Information Session for IDEA Weekend
November 30 - L(a)unch at PBC