LaunchPad Awards One Student Start-Up Fund Grant for Spring 2025
The Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University Libraries has awarded one Student Start-Up Fund grant for the Spring 2025 semester. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis to undergraduate and graduate students who need help moving an idea from concept to commercialization. Thomas O’Brien ’25 (College of Visual and Performing Arts) was awarded the grant for his company, Ten Open Projects, which provides video production services to small and medium-sized enterprises and produces short films under its FreeFall Films production company. The grant will be used to expand customer reach and LLC formation expenses.
Applications must specifically define the need with identified outcomes to be achieved within a set time. The fund is possible because of generous donors like Library Advisory Board members Jeffrey Rich ’67 and Yvonne Hyland.