Aaron Welch, chief executive officer for Iron Gamer, delivers his pitch to the crowd and the judges during the GigTank Demo Day in August.Calling Chattanooga’s first GigTank competition “a grand slam,” backers of the broadband-based business contest are organizing a replay.
GigTank 2013 is in the works, said Charlie Brock, executive director of The Co.Lab.
“We’re trying to build a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem,” he said at the Spirit of Innovation Award luncheon Tuesday. “Chattanooga can be right at the top.”
Brock said that Tampa, Fla.-based startup Banyan, which won the first GigTank competition this summer, is moving to Chattanooga in two weeks.
“They benefited from the bandwidth provided by the EPB fiber network,” he said. “The CEO said, ‘It has taken us weeks … to accomplish what we could do in days in Chattanooga.'”