{"id":1335,"date":"2020-02-15T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T23:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2025-06-17T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:04:16","slug":"aerospec-selected-for-uws-jones-foster-accelerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/2020\/02\/15\/aerospec-selected-for-uws-jones-foster-accelerator\/","title":{"rendered":"AeroSpec Selected for UW&#8217;s Jones + Foster Accelerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nano.uw.edu\/aerospec-2019-dempsey\/\">startup competitions<\/a>, AeroSpec, has now been selected as one of the recipients of the <a href=\"https:\/\/foster.uw.edu\/centers\/buerk-ctr-entrepreneurship\/jones-foster-accelerator-program\/\">Jones + Foster Accelerator program<\/a>.\u00a0 Guided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/foster.uw.edu\/centers\/buerk-ctr-entrepreneurship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship<\/a> at the University of Washington&#8217;s Foster School of Business, AeroSpec will receive up to $25,000 after they completing six months of milestones under the mentorship of industry leaders from across the community. The J+F Accelerator has now awarded more than $1.4 million since the program began in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AeroSpec<\/strong> provides a complete air quality monitoring system for the industrial segment using off-the-shelf electronics and proprietary software to create a real time air quality heat map of an indoor facility. \u201cAeroSpec started the program with many possible directions,\u201d said CEO Sep Makhsous. \u201cNow we have a focused 3-year plan with clear goals and milestones to achieve.\u201d AeroSpec is scheduled to officially launch in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.foster.uw.edu\/funding-awards-jones-foster-accelerator\/\">UW&#8217;s Foster Blog<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are interested in joining AeroSpec, please reach out to Sep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of past startup competitions, AeroSpec, has now been selected as one of the recipients of the Jones + Foster Accelerator program.\u00a0 Guided by the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington&#8217;s Foster School of Business, AeroSpec will receive up to $25,000 after they completing six months of milestones under the mentorship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-milestones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nrglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}