Candy Hattingh

Director of Incubate Galveston Initiatives

What is Incubate Galveston?

Incubate Galveston is a collaborative model backed by Galveston’s pillars of entrepreneurship, technology, innovation, and business. The initiative’s mission is to accelerate the journey of an entrepreneur by providing awareness of and equitable access to opportunities to connect and collaborate across the Galveston-Houston region.

Vision Galveston is excited to begin the journey with MORTAR Academy, a 15-week course aimed at helping both existing and aspiring entrepreneurs build a comprehensive business canvas and learn the nuances of business management; The goal being to launch businesses that create jobs and circulate dollars locally. Our first cohort begins February 2024! For more information, CLICK HERE.

Equitable Access to Entrepreneurial and Innovation-Related Opportunities
Incubate Galveston provides a powerful approach to accelerating economic opportunities for next-gen entrepreneurs, engaging the business community while promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, respect, and collaboration. 

At its core, Incubate Galveston’s collaborative focuses on building and enhancing relationships across multiple actors and sectors focused on innovation as a tool for prosperity creation on the island. The initiative also sources and showcases Galveston’s talent in ways that generate a sense of pride in the island’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, talent pipeline, resources, and community.

Physical and online workshops, networking events, and competitions strengthen Galveston’s economic resiliency and competitiveness. In addition, these actions help to illuminate and amplify entrepreneurial, technological, and innovation-related opportunities for all stakeholders on the island—bolstering, attracting, and retaining individual talent and businesses.

Incubate Events

Hackathon October 18-20, 2024 A hackathon is a social design sprint that brings together the community to work in teams creating innovative solutions. Basically, it’s a party, and a 48-hour race between teams competing to develop solutions to problem-sets for cash prizes. Participants will work in small teams that have a collection of experts, entrepreneurs, students, and community members to tackle identified challenges, for more info and to register for this free event, Check Back Later.

CLICK below for free resources to get your show on the road!