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Penn State Berks’ Berks LaunchBox business incubator has been awarded a $53,000 grant from Berks County.
The LaunchBox will work with Furniture Soup to use the money to revamp its co-working space at its headquarters at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts.
Funds will be used to buy new desks, storage, sound dampening equipment, laptops, makerspace materials and a 3D scanner.
“These funds would go a long way to supporting early-stage startups and entrepreneurs in Reading, helping them to de-risk their startup and scale their business successfully,” Erica Kunkel, director of Berks LaunchBox and continuing education at Penn State Berks, said in a statement announcing the grant.
The grant is part of the county’s IMAGINE Berks Strategic Economic Development Action Plan. The plan includes…
