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Horn Entrepreneurship

Blue Hen 17&43 Awards Announced

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University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics and Horn Entrepreneurship announce recipients of the inaugural Blue Hen 17&43 awards, which recognize University of Delaware students and alumni who have owned, founded or led the promising new ventures and fastest growing companies. Forty-two Blue Hen businesses will receive the honor.

“UD’s new Blue Hen 17&43 Awards recognize and celebrate a special subset of our amazing UD family – the innovators, entrepreneurs and business leaders who have launched promising startups, guided the rapid growth of job-creating companies or done both,” said Dan Freeman, PhD, founding director, University of Delaware Horn Entrepreneurship.

Ventures recognized as most promising include (listed alphabetically):

Avkin

BetterSkills Inc.

Bloom Daily Planners

CanSurround PBC

Carvertise

Extreme Scale Solutions

GeoSwap

Global Accelerator network (GAN)

GoShare

LendEDU

Manor of Hope

SRILX Products, LLC

Strataca Systems, LLC

TenantU Services, Inc.

TheraV

TKo Hospitality Management

USEED

Fastest growing companies include (listed alphabetically):

ACRES Capital LLC

Alternative Energy Development Group LLC

ASBECO

Belfint, Lyons & Shuman, P.A.

Biocom Purchasing Group

Brighton Cromwell

Bubbakoo’s Burritos

Diamond State Financial Group, LLC

Elite PT, LLC

EWC Controls, Inc.

Ferris Home Improvements

gBuild Construction

Grill Grate

IronLinx Transportation, LLC

KCI Technologies

KMRD Partners, Inc.

Lang Development Group

Lavida Hospitality

LUXTECH

Mercantile Processing, Inc.

Princeton Hosted Solutions, LLC.

Semihandmade

The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation

The Siegfried Group, LLP

Urban Furniture Outlet, Inc.

Ventures considered for the “most promising” list formed five years ago or less and were selected on the basis of documented milestones, capital raised, revenue and overall business potential. Fastest growing companies experienced growth rates in excess of 10% per year over the last 3 years and generated at least $1 million in total annual revenue.

 

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