Public Relations & Communications - Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Soda City Startup! is a three-day event designed to ignite innovation, entrepreneurship and networking in the region. Participants learn how to nurture new business ideas to fruition and how to bring commercially viable solutions to market. The first event of this kind in Columbia was organized by the USC/Columbia TechnologyIncubator in 2014 with an estimated 100 participants who engaged in building new ventures. One of those 2014 startups, Koios, continues to thrive as an emerging technology company. Most of the teams in 2016 were made up of local college students, notably, more women than men.