Local tech company expanding with new building in downtown Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno tech and acquisition institution is expanding.

Quiq Labs held a ribbon cutting connected Wednesday astatine their caller bureau successful the Factory 41 gathering downtown, 1 of the erstwhile homes of Bitwise.

As Quiq Labs celebrates its 10th day successful business, it is besides celebrating growth, moving from a little than 400-square-foot bureau into a astir 3000-square-foot bureau abstraction connected Ventura Street Downtown.

"Technology is not dormant successful Fresno. It's here, we're growing," said Curlen Phipps, co-founder of Quiq Labs.

The organization, founded by Curlen Phipps and Damon Thomas, provides assorted tech services and education.

"Quiq Labs is simply a tech institution and a tech acquisition company. We thatch students from K-12 and young adults graphic design, web design, multi-media, entrepreneurship, communications, podcasting, and drone technology," said Thomas.

The determination volition let for the enlargement of the services they already connection and volition beryllium location to their "Hero Academy," which volition springiness students entree to robotics, augmented world and more.

Quiq Labs already works with students successful schools, but this volition present let for tract trips and teaching on-site.

"We tin bring successful adults who request method education; we tin bring successful small kids and thatch them robotics," said Phipps.

Many of the bureau spaces successful their caller determination are occupied by erstwhile students they mentored, who person go entrepreneurs themselves, similar twins Kyreese and Tyreese Bailey.

The boys recognition their ma with getting them into a coding programme astatine Quiq Labs, which launched their careers today.

The 2 present walk connected their cognition to animate the adjacent generation.

Kyreese creates creation and YouTube videos with enactment figures helium paints himself.

"When I spot kids and they're amazed to spot what I'm doing and they privation to bash things akin I'm similar heck yeah! I'm ne'er going to archer them they can't bash it. I'm ever going to deed them with that encouragement," said Kyreese.

Tyreese teaching young gamers however to make games.

"I thatch kids however to marque their ain game, arsenic good arsenic programming skills, graphic design, crippled design, and social-emotional learning successful each of my classes," Tyreese explained.

They are conscionable 2 examples of the impacts of Quiq Labs and the occurrence that Thomas and Phipps anticipation to grow connected successful their caller office.

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