Nashua, NH According to John Flatley, owner of Nashua Technology Park and Nashua Office Park at Gateway Hills, the 4th annual Flatley Challenge, designed to assist entrepreneurs in the fields of IT, communications, data storage, connectivity, mobile app design, clean tech, medical devices, life sciences and other leading-edge technologies, has begun.
This year, they’re especially interested in the emerging robotics category, as well as women in technology.
To the winner(s) of the innovative competition, Flatley will provide free rent for one year for up to 5,000 s/f of office and/or lab space, as well as up to $10,000 in fit-up, connectivity and related costs.
The Flatley Challenge is intended to stimulate the development and growth of early-stage companies by providing them both free incubation space plus the opportunity to interact with such world class companies as Dell, Skillsoft, Benchmark Electronics, Amphenol TCS, Wind River, Parallel Wireless, HiSoftware, Plexxi, Infinio and DataGravity already resident at Gateway Hills.
To compete in this year’s Flatley Challenge, interested firms will be asked to submit a letter of application to the John Flatley Company no later than October 30.
Brian Nadeau, senior vice president, product development of Infinio, a market leader in data storage performance technology and last year’s winner of the Flatley challenge said, “Participating in the challenge and placing our office in the Nashua Technology Park has allowed us to hire from an exceptional pool of talent and accelerate our growth plans for 2015. The facility and its staff have exceeded our expectations and we hope to be here for a long time to come.”
According to Ashish Patel, president of Pilera Software, one of the winners of the 2013 Flatley Challenge, “Winning the Flatley Challenge has been phenomenal – a great catalyst for the growth of Pilera. I am extremely thankful to have access to this space at a critical point in Pilera’s growth.”
Applications should include the executive summary section of the existing business plan, or a thorough description of the nature of the venture including, but not limited to, the history of the business, its proposed or existing product line, the characteristics of the potential market, the general marketing plan and efforts to date, the organization of your business including your management team, existing and projected financial resources available to the business, the long term business goals and its job growth potential for the next three to five years.
A short list of the highest scoring applicants will be invited for a personal interview before a review panel in early December with the winning applicant(s) to be notified no later than December 31.