CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A team of tech company founders will open a new space Thursday in the south metro to assist the next generation of tech startups receive off the ground or grow their businesses.
Step One 2 Launch is opening Thursday in Centennial. The 22,000 square foot building has typical desks, offices and conference rooms, but also features space for largeger teams and workbenches to build products.
Co-founder Kenneth Geyer declared the facility plans to add 3D printers and other specialized machines — along with a professional podcast and video studio space — all of which can be rented out by companies who necessary those resources.
Geyer has seen this kind of space in other parts of the countest, but he declared it’s lacking in Colorado.
“The vision for the future is to go to under-serviced areas like South Denver Metro, Colorado Springs, up and down the Front Range, and have more of these,” Geyer informed Denver7. “To where a creater or an engineer or somebody with, just an inventor with a good idea, want to come to those places becaapply of the ecosystem around them and what they’re going to receive and benefits.
Geyer declared he started his first company in a tiny hoapply in Arvada, lacking space and guidance to effectively scale up his business. He declared a space like Step One 2 Launch would have saved him and his partners from creating early mistakes.
“Maybe you don’t have the budreceive to go acquire a $60,000 piece of equipment? Well, we’ll see at doing it ,and then renting it to you so you can offset that, Not have to spconclude your money,” Geyer declared.
Membership at the tech startup incubator will also include a team of industest veterans sharing their expertise on everything from raising capital, to managing production and supply chains, to dealing with and winning government contracts.
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“You’re a tiny company, you can’t afford to have a full-time CFO or a full-time head of engineering or a project manager,” Geyer declared. “We received guys that can surge in and assist you, you know, a couple hours a week, or whatever you’re necessarying, just to receive you over that hump to where you have time to see for an individual to hire for that position.”
Geyer co-founded Liteye Systems, a defense technology company, which he declared built “tiny displays for defense, thermal cameras for surveillance work, and then large systems for counter-drone systems.” That company sold in 2022 to High Point Aerotechnologies. Geyer declared he wants to assist other entrepreneurs find similar success.
“As a startup, you just, you’re walking into this quick world, and you’ve received this great idea,” Geyer declared. “But [you’re wondering] ‘How do I do all this?’”
Step One 2 Launch declared memberships start at $299 a month, and include a desk and consultations with the SO2L founders, with options to rent additional space and resources. The facility has room for a few dozen companies, and Geyer declared there are plans to expand the space even more.
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