Blackstone Launchpad at UAlbany facilitated virtual summer internships with startups and organizations in upstate NY. 18 interns worked on 8 projects over 10 weeks. Student got to experience working with a startup first hand with a variety of technical and business tasks. At startup Chaasm, interns conducted customer discovery, worked on developing a business plan, researched venture capital firms. At startup Data Spotlite, interns crosswalked the functions and features of our Cyber Security Solution CYRISMA to controls from different compliance mandates. Two teams of students conducted a technical and a business project at the startup Iconoclasm. The technical team performed software and infrastructure audits, detail threat models, conduct introductory level digital forensics, and contributed to documentation. The business team conducted market research, customer outreach, completed a swot analysis, and drafted a white letter. At Alchar Printing the team helped convert their business to an ecommerce busines model. Other interns were deployed to the SBDC and worked on projects here at UAlbany conducting research, creating guides and doing data analytics.
Blackstone LaunchPad will be facilitating this program again during the semester. For more information visit: www.launchpadalbany.com/cares