--- title: Blue Hen 17&43 Awards Announced description: University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics and Horn Entrepreneurship announce recipients of the inaugural Blue Hen 17&43 awards. image: http://horn.udel.edu/hubfs/BH_1743_2017-122.jpg --- [![University of Delaware](https://horn.udel.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/HPE_Jan2017/logo.png?width=168&height=70&name=logo.png "University of Delaware")](http://udel.edu) #### Horn Entrepreneurship # [Stories & Updates](https://horn.udel.edu) ## Blue Hen 17&43 Awards Announced by [Zachary Jones](https://horn.udel.edu/author/zachary-jones) • October 16, 2017 ![BH_1743_2017-122.jpg](http://horn.udel.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/BH_1743_2017-122.jpg?width=590&name=BH_1743_2017-122.jpg "BH_1743_2017-122.jpg") 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. 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