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Press Release: BVCS (Daily Local News)

Brandywine Valley College Specialists was featured in the Daily Local News this week for the recent launch of their online program which makes college admissions a breeze. Founded by two experts in the field of admissions, we were approached in the Summer of 2017 to help transform their previously face-to-face consultative approach into a digital experience for increased accessibility. Fast forward to Summer 2018 and we launched a fully produced platform experience with video and downloadable supplemental materials!

If you have someone in High School who is planning to go to college check out BVCS: https://bvcollegespecialists.com/

Press Release: https://www.dailylocal.com/business/new–part-video-on-demand-course-is-designed-to/article_6a83c580-f49d-589b-a0d6-f130e420294a.html

Walnut St. Labs, NextFab and i2n Partner to Launch “Mini-Makerspace”

nextfab_wsllogo_1024 WEST CHESTER, PA – Walnut St. Labs, an Innovation Lab in West Chester, PA, is partnering with i2n (Ideas x Innovation Network) and NextFab to launch a “Mini-Makerspace”.

Walnut St. Labs, i2n and NextFab have teamed up to provide access and create educational opportunities for 3D Printing to innovators in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The Chester County Economic Development Council’s i2n has offered leadership strategy and financial support to help launch this initiative. Walnut St. Labs has registered their 2 Bukitos on Hubs.com (Formerly 3D Hubs) and will host regular demonstrations for local audiences to aid in their fabrication process.

“We’re continuing on in our mission to build an innovation hub, with a vast span of community resources. We started with software-based offerings, and now, we’ve partnered with a premier makerspace in Philadelphia to move into the micro-fabrication space.” said Chris Dima, Founder and CEO of Walnut St. Labs. “We love how ambitious NextFab has been about sharing access to new technologies with the public — and we want in!”

Walnut St. Labs was formed at the end of 2013. Its mission is to foster innovation through coworking, weekly events and technology incubation for enterprise applications.

“i2n is excited to fund and to work with Walnut St. Labs and NextFab to bring community accessible 3D printing to West Chester,” says Mary Fuchs, Senior Consultant, Ideas x Innovation Network (i2n). “Not only is it a great resource for the business community, it also supports the VISTA 2025 goal to grow the innovation and entrepreneurial culture in Chester County.”

“NextFab was created to support innovators with knowledge of and access to advanced manufacturing technologies,” said Evan Malone, Founder of NextFab. “Through our ‘Powered by NextFab’ program, and great partners like Walnut St. Labs, we are excited to offer makerspace facilities to innovators in the Philadelphia suburbs.”

Walnut St. Labs and NextFab, with support from i2n, will be continuing to announce future applications and progressions for the suburban Mini-Makerspace at WSL. For those who are interested in learning about 3D Printing generally or printing specific parts, please join WSL on Wednesday nights for Night Owls, from 7-10PM.

For more information, please contact Ben Bock at Walnut St. Labs (ben@walnutstlabs.com) or Alex Kaplan at NextFab (alex.kaplan@nextfab.com).

About Walnut St. Labs

Walnut Street Labs is an innovation hub located in West Chester, PA. Its mission is to promote and create innovation in greater Chester County and Southeastern PA. WSL has established a physical space for startups to work and collaborate, a robust event calendar filled with inspirational entrepreneurs and innovators along with an advisor network, comprised of business leaders with a wide range of expertise.

About NextFab

NextFab’s mission is to foster innovation and manufacturing as key elements of our nation’s identity and economy, through providing broad-based awareness of, access to, competence with, and commerce enabled by Next-generation digital design and Fabrication technologies and services. NextFab.com

About i2n

i2n is funded in part by private sector support, educational partners, and the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development’s Discovered in PA, Developed in PA program. The Chester County Economic Development Council is a private, non-profit economic development organization promoting smart growth in Chester County and the surrounding region for more than 50 years. The CCEDC provides proven financing solutions, cultivates workforce talent, leverages business partnerships, and fosters entrepreneurial collaboration. Together, with the support of the private and public sectors, CCEDC initiates, implements and innovates programs that improve the business community and enhance the quality of life in Chester County. For more information, visit our websites, www.i2npa.org and www.cceconomicdevelopment.com.

Unisys and Walnut St. Labs Partner for Innovative Prototyping and Software Design

WEST CHESTER, PA – Walnut St. Labs, an Innovation Lab in West Chester, PA, is partnering with Unisys Corporation to hold a product prototyping competition.

The prototyping competition, to be held at Walnut St. Labs across five weeks starting on April 15, will be geared towards user interface and user experience designers. The winners of the competition will receive a cash prize and will have the chance to meet with Unisys to discuss details of their design. Both Unisys and Walnut St. Labs will deliver eight micro courses during the competition in areas like Rapid Prototyping and Design Thinking.

“This is what we always dreamed about doing — elevating innovation by partnering with great companies like Unisys and doing innovative things,” said Chris Dima, Founder and CEO of Walnut St. Labs. “The team at Unisys understands innovation and will be a super productive partner.”

Walnut St. Labs was formed at the end of 2013. Its mission is to foster innovation through co-working, weekly events and technology incubation.

“Unisys has a long, proud history of innovation,” said Jim Thompson, chief engineer and vice president of engineering and supply chain at Unisys. “We also see a new wave of ideas from innovation labs like Walnut St. Labs, and we want to be a part of that. By combining Unisys’ tradition of innovation with the capabilities of Walnut St. Labs, we can have the best of both worlds.”

Over the course of the next few weeks, Walnut St. Labs and Unisys will be announcing details of the competition. Applications to participate are being accepted beginning April 1. For more information, please contact Ben Bock at Walnut St. Labs (ben@walnutstlabs.com) or Brittney Burchett at Unisys (brittney.burchett@unisys.com).

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About Walnut St. Labs

Walnut Street Labs is an innovation hub located in West Chester, PA. Its mission is to promote and create innovation in greater Chester County and Southeastern PA. WSL has established a physical space for startups to work and collaborate, a robust event calendar filled with inspirational entrepreneurs and innovators along with an advisor network, comprised of business leaders with a wide range of expertise.

About Unisys

Unisys is a global information technology company that solves complex IT challenges at the intersection of modern and mission critical. We work with many of the world’s largest companies and government organizations to secure and keep their mission-critical operations running at peak performance; streamline and transform their data centers; enhance support to their end users and constituents; and modernize their enterprise applications. We do this while protecting and building on their legacy IT investments. Our offerings include outsourcing and managed services, systems integration and consulting services, high-end server technology, cybersecurity and cloud management software, and maintenance and support services. Unisys has more than 20,000 employees serving clients around the world. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

Jeff White and Mark Thompson Join Walnut St. Labs To Commercialize New Innovations

WEST CHESTER, PA – Walnut St. Labs today announced that Jeff White, formerly CEO of FingerWorks, and Mark Thompson, formerly CTO of ING Direct, are joining Walnut St. Labs to commercialize a series of new cloud computing technologies developed through the Lab’s innovation incubator. White and Thompson will be working with the Lab’s managing partners Chris Dima, Kevin Fleming and Michael Guttman. “We are thrilled to be working with Jeff and Mark,” said Fleming. “They understand our vision for helping technology innovators bring their ideas to market, and they both bring an extensive track record of successfully selling and licensing such technology.” Jeff White is the former CEO of FingerWorks which was acquired by Apple in 2005. Earlier, he spent 16 years at Hewlett Packard in a variety of senior management positions in enterprise computing. Jeff is also a cofounder of Trestle Ventures, a venture fund and angel network based in West Chester, PA. Jeff currently serves as the Founder and CEO at Media Analytics. Mark Thompson is the former CTO of ING Direct (now part of Capital One) and a member of the founding team where he developed innovative technologies that helped to grow the company from zero to over 5 million customers in just 4 years. Mark also served for 5 years in government intelligence as a U.S. Marine and U.S. Government employee. He is currently serving as the Co-Founder and CTO at Media Analytics. About Walnut St. Labs Walnut St. Labs is an early stage startup incubator and innovation consultancy that works with startups to build an MVP (minimal viable product) and bring it to market quickly. The lab also offers affordable co-working space and weekly events for startups and entrepreneurs. Contact Information For media inquires, contact: Chris Dima 267-258-1520 chris@walnutstlabs.com

Walnut St. Labs Announces Areshay, an Android App To Access All Your Documents

WEST CHESTER, PA – Areshay, a file-sharing app that allows users to access all of their personal and enterprise documents together in one app, is being developed at Walnut St. Labs, a technology incubator and innovation consultancy in West Chester PA.

The first public beta for Areshay (pig latin for “Share”) will be available on the Google Play store in Q3 2014. The app currently supports integration with Sharepoint, Salesforce, Box and Dropbox with many more to follow in the coming months.

“Mobile professionals have cloud storage accounts across different services, and enterprise level accounts have traditionally been trapped behind a corporate firewall. When you first use Areshay, it’s a very liberating experience – like a big family reunion for all of your files.” said founder, Chris Dima.

Areshay is being developed in partnership with Philadelphia, PA based Point.io and their founder, Andrew Schwabe. Point.io is a “Modern Middleware” platform that provides the power to share documents with absolute control and security.

“Areshay is addressing a void in the market by providing Android users with access to Enterprise documents and SaaS services,” Point.io’s CEO Ron Rock said. “Combined with the benefits of the Point.io platform, Areshay complements the needs of US enterprises, while opening new opportunities in European and Asian markets where there is a large adoption of Android for business.”

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About Point.io

Point.io is a Patent Pending, API-as-a-Service Platform that enables organizations to monetize existing digital assets and join the API Economy. Using the Point.io API products, technology executives can dramatically reduce development time for API-enabled applications, and therefore realize significant cost savings and faster time to market. Business leaders can explore new business models that leverage existing information assets to generate new revenue while resting assured that data access patterns comply with corporate policy. Point.io authenticates every access request and monitors all activity to make compliance easy. Point.io’s technology delivers APIdoc™ to expose file-based assets and APIflow™ to externalize core business processes through standard APIs that can be used in web, mobile, and social applications that meet the growing demands of mobile stakeholders.

For more on Point.io.
Follow @Point_io
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About Walnut St. Labs
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Walnut St. Labs is an early stage startup incubator and innovation consultancy that works with startups to build an MVP (minimal viable product) and bring it to market quickly. The lab also offers affordable co-working space and weekly events for startups and entrepreneurs.

For more about Walnut St. Labs visit our site.

Contact Information
For media inquiries, contact:
Chris Dima
267-258-1520
chris@walnutstlabs.com