Four Students Advance to Finals of Startup Challenge

Three teams featuring Middlebury Institute students have advanced to the final stage in the Startup Challenge Monterey Bay, a nine-year-old accelerator competition that provides coaching and mentors to entrepreneurs in the region. Two teams, Worknight Creations LLC, co-founded by Karl “Kaz” Larsen MBA/IEP ’18, and the BOHO Marketplace, co-founded by Khadija Hafiz MBA/MAIPD ’18 and Jillian Flavin MBA/MAIEP ’18, will be competing against two other finalist teams in the Student Division. Seachange co-founder Dennison Sleeper MAIEP ’19 will compete against 11 other teams in the finals of the Venture Division.