{"id":162848,"date":"2025-05-08T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=162848"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T21:00:01","slug":"starting-up-in-summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2025\/05\/08\/starting-up-in-summertime\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Up (in) Summertime"},"content":{"rendered":"

by A.J. Kleber<\/em><\/p>\n

The academic year is drawing to a close, but some entrepreneurial BU ECE students are gearing up for an ambitiously productive summer \u201cbreak,\u201d working to realize their own business ventures with support from Innovate@BU.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Summer Accelerator<\/span><\/a> is a 10-week intensive program offering mentorship and $10K in funding to student ventures across a broad variety of industries. Students work towards an August showcase event, when they will present their prospective start-ups to the public. This year, just twelve teams were selected out of nearly one hundred applications, and two are co-led by Computer Engineering majors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brennan Mahoney (CE\u201925) is heading up <\/span>Redstone<\/span><\/a> alongside a classmate from Questrom, an \u201call-in-one\u201d application for algorithmic retail trading; the use of an automated process for the purchase and sale of stocks, equity, and other financial instruments by individual\u00a0 (non-professional) investors. The team claims that theirs is the first to group necessary tools onto a single platform, making what can be a complex and daunting process more accessible to individual traders.<\/span><\/p>\n

On a different business axis altogether, meanwhile, Anya Agidi and Tadiwa Zinyongo (both CE\u201826) have teamed up with a couple of classmates to develop <\/span>Regal Rain Co<\/span><\/a>, a brand of \u201cfashion\u201d umbrellas with a dual focus on style and durability. As any ECE student who has ever had to hurry up St. Mary\u2019s Street to class in the Photonics Building on a rainy day would know, most umbrellas have a very short lifespan indeed; averaging six months, according to the team\u2019s research. Agidi, Zinyongo and their colleagues aim to address this issue while simultaneously transforming umbrellas into the coolest fashion-forward new accessories, targeted especially at their Gen Z peers.<\/span><\/p>\n

All we can say to these enterprising students is: best of luck, and make it rain!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ECE students are leading two entrepreneurial Summer Accelerator projects this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18241,"featured_media":162843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,975,976,907],"tags":[1338,700,966,967,1339,959],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162849,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162848\/revisions\/162849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}