gBETA Social Impact and a year at StartingBlock

COSE joined the first gBETA Social Impact cohort, run by gener8tor with the American Family Insurance Institute, and received a year of office space at StartingBlock in Madison.

The COSE workspace at StartingBlock, with workbenches, time-lapse imagers, clinostat frames and parts

In October 2018 COSE joined the first gBETA Social Impact cohort, run by gener8tor with the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact. gBETA is a free accelerator for early-stage companies: seven weeks of mentoring and workshops, with no fees and no equity taken. This was its first program for social-impact companies, held at the Spark building on East Washington Avenue in Madison.

At the time, COSE was building time-lapse imaging instruments for classrooms alongside the clinostat; the second prototype was being wired that same month.

The program also came with a year of office space at StartingBlock, Madison's entrepreneurship hub in the same building. It was the company's first workspace of its own: a room of workbenches where the time-lapse imagers and early clinostats were built and tested.

The view from the StartingBlock office along East Washington Avenue toward the State Capitol