St. Paul co-working group
Co-Co and tech accelerator
Project Skyway have joined forces to establish
Co-Co's second location, this one on the old trading floor of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange building in Downtown Minneapolis.
The16,000-square-foot trading floor of the 1903 building will offer
alternative office space for Co-Co's clients: freelance professionals,
small businesses, and corporate workgroups; and it will provide working
and meeting space for Project Skyway's twice-yearly classes of tech
entrepreneurs, according to a press release. The space will also hold
educational and social events hosted by CoCo.
The space is set to open July 5.
Project Skyway, billed as "Minnesota's first tech accelerator program
for motivated entrepreneurs," is currently in its first round of
assisting early-stage tech companies. Project Skyway will hold a
weekend�long bootcamp, June 10�12, for 25 select companies at CoCo's
flagship St. Paul location, which opened in 2010. Ten of those companies
will be the finalists to go through the inaugural three-month program
in the new Minneapolis space, starting in August.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, whose office encouraged the move, said in
the release that "entrepreneurs built our region in the 19th century,
and their partnership will help a new generation of startups do the same
in the 21st century."
Cem Erdem, founder of Project Skyway,and founder and CEO of the
educational software company
Augusoft, dubbed it "the Brain Exchange."
The organizations promise to post detailed space designs, images and
videos in the coming weeks. In the meantime, they invite folks to visit
the evolving space, every Wednesday through June 29, between 1 p.m and 5
p.m. (Email first.)
Source: CoCo, Project Skyway
Writer: Jeremy Stratton