Fresno students pitch ideas to venture capitalists from Bloomberg Beta

FRESNO, Calif (KFSN) -- A Central Fresno precocious schoolhouse is taking enactment to assistance students go entrepreneurs.

Students astatine Patino School of Entrepreneurship pitched their concern plans to a radical of task capitalists from Bloomberg Beta.

At the school, the students instrumentality concern focused courses their archetypal 2 years of precocious schoolhouse with the accidental to web with experienced entrepreneurs successful their inferior year.

"We're a schoolhouse of entrepreneurship and I deliberation that Bloomberg Beta is 1 of the astir influential task capitalist firms successful the states. And to beryllium capable to person those radical interacting with our students is crippled changer for them," explained Principal Blair Sagardia.

Sagardia says this is the sixth twelvemonth a inferior people has presented to the radical from Bloomberg Beta.

Senior Malikye Peterson had that accidental past twelvemonth and says it's 1 of galore reasons this programme has been a game-changer.

"We don't person idiosyncratic to usher us, to pb america connected the close path. And for me, this schoolhouse benignant of became my mentor," said Malikye Peterson, a senior.

Peterson is present connected way to survey concern astatine Fresno State with an world scholarship, and he's successful bully company.

Three of his classmates created a website that helps the Latino assemblage find escaped accusation astir fiscal topics.

The thought was truthful successful, the students person secured a 2 1000 dollar assistance and anticipation to nutrient a mobile app.

"We spot this precocious schoolhouse arsenic the future,"

Bloomberg Beta Venture Capitalist Roy Bahat says the students astatine Patino are creating concern plans precise likewise to different entrepreneurs.

Bahat hopes to proceed to nurture the narration with the Fresno Unified precocious schoolhouse and connection a dose of world to the concern focused students.

"When young radical are learning the skills to marque thing themselves and person the enactment that if they don't similar the jobs that are offered to them, they tin make thing themselves, that's powerful," said Bahat.

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