{"id":2951,"date":"2021-03-01T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:30:50","slug":"podcast-bcic-2nd-annual-startup-texas-pitch-summit-march-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/podcast-bcic-2nd-annual-startup-texas-pitch-summit-march-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: BCIC 2nd Annual StartUp Texas Pitch Summit March 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe new businesses and attention put on Brownsville \u2014 and really the Rio Grande Valley as a whole \u2014 is transformative, and it\u2019s the perfect environment for entrepreneurs to come into.\u201d<br \/>\nNathan Burkhart<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BROWNSVILLE, Texas \u2013 Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation\u2019s second annual StartUp Texas Pitch Summit will take place on March 11.<\/p>\n<p>It was to have taken place on Feb. 26 but last week\u2019s storms affected some of the applicants.<\/p>\n<p>The seed fund program is part of BCIC\u2019s ongoing efforts to cultivate a culture and ecosystem of entrepreneurship in Brownsville and the greater Rio Grande Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our second annual pitch summit since our program began last February. Our goal is to foster scalable business in our region and provide entrepreneurs in our community the chance to access capital and commercialize their products or services here at home,\u201d explained Nathan Burkhart, director of marketing and small business development for BCIC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince its inception in Fall of 2019, the StartUp Texas Program by the BCIC has evolved tremendously,\u201d Burkhart told the Rio Grande Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat began as a seed fund program for entrepreneurs hoping to scale in Brownsville, Texas, evolved into an expansion of COVID-19 Relief Aid in the form of grants and forgivable loans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, the StartUp Texas Program encompasses the Pitch Summit, the Brownsville CARES Grant, the Emergency\/Bridge Loan, and the (Re)Open for Business Forgivable Loan. All programs are administered and funded by the BCIC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riograndeguardian.com\/podcast-bcics-startup-texas-pitch-summit-takes-place-march-11\/?fbclid=IwAR2Md3F_b8v5W--5hkxbaHeFEoWmxarQEqqqg5DA2pqSJlmzDih-ZiFINQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LISTEN HERE<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe new businesses and attention put on Brownsville \u2014 and really the Rio Grande Valley as a whole \u2014 is transformative, and it\u2019s the perfect environment for entrepreneurs to come into.\u201d Nathan Burkhart BROWNSVILLE, Texas \u2013 Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation\u2019s second annual StartUp Texas Pitch Summit will take place on March 11. It was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-development","category-startup-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}