Brooks Anderson, founder and CEO of TimberHut, which has been accepted into the Laine Business Accelerator
TimberHut
Nine Olean region businesses are slated to go through St. Bonaventure University's business accelerator program, seeking to capitalize on the early momentum they've created.
This will be the second cohort of startups and small businesses that go through Bonaventure's Laine Business Accelerator.
The 13-week course will include $5,000 in startup funding, seminars and education from area business professionals and Bona and Jamestown Community College faculty, and free office space at the Hub incubator facility in downtown Olean.
More than 40 teams applied to take part in the program, which is funded by the KeyBank Foundation. Those accepted:
- Beat City Music Inc., a downtown Olean music store
- Dalorum, a platform for sponsorship and other opportunities for student athletes, founded by recent Bona grad Max Brie
- Ellicottville Greens, a vertical farming startup company led by CEO Gabe Bialkowski
- Neighborhood School of Dance, a long-running dance school in Olean
- Raise the Bar Woodworks, another Bona student startup led by CEO Parker Bray, a woodworker who creates custom high-end branding materials for real estate agents and other professionals
- Scull Manufacturing, an Olean-based contract manufacturer
- TimberHut, a scalable maker of module cabins and other facilities
- Wolf Pack Storage, a climate controlled storage company in Allegany
- Audiology Services of Western New York
