Gap Fund Recipients September 2017

IDEA is excited to announce that three ventures have been awarded September 2017 Gap Funding. These ventures have big plans to execute go-to-market strategies, and user experience enhancements. Congratulations to Creatr, TakeShape, and All-in-Nutrition we look forward to watching your big plans come to life and wish you continued success. You can learn more about each of the recipients below and their plans for Gap Funding.

All-In-Nutrition

All-in-Nutrition is a natural snack food company that provides high protein and energy bars. These bars adhere to all dietary restrictions and there are currently three flavors in the product line. All-In-Nutrition plans to use Gap Funding to help bring a new flavor of healthy bars to the market.

Creatr

Creater is a platform that allows for professionals in the creative industry to share their knowledge and expertise with artists from across the globe through live video. With Gap Funding, Creatr plans to improve visitors user experience through improvement of the live-stream quality. By sending high quality equipment to it’s top “Creatrs” they hope to gain new followers and more high quality content from their creative professional leaders.

TakeShape

This content management platform allows companies and it’s creative teams to focus more on creating content than the administrative upkeep. With Gap Funding, TakeShape plans to test their go-to-market strategy in order to get a better understanding of what marketing channels and types of ads engage their target customers the best.

IDEA Gap Funding is a non-equity educational grant available to ventures in the GO stage of IDEA’s process. Applicants may apply on a bi-monthly basis where their business plans are reviewed by IDEA’s student Investment Committee upon being selected to pitch plans to IDEA’s Advisory Board. Applicants may receive up to $10,000 in funding.

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Sarah Sienkiewicz
IDEA: Northeastern’s Venture Accelerator

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