SC startups VAGA and harborGood.com selected for prestigious NYC female-founded venture program    

CHARLESTON, SC – harborGood co-founders Hildy Teegen & David Adoff and VAGA founder Kerranna Williamson are the only South Carolina entrepreneurs selected to join the leaders of 148 female-founded firms at the new venture competition Project Entrepreneur Weekend Intensive, a joint venture between the Rent the Runway Foundation and UBS in New York City April 9-10, 2016.  Project Entrepreneur ignites bold ideas by providing women access to the tools, training and networks needed to build scalable, economically impactful companies.

VAGA is a trusted community marketplace for individuals and companies to list, discover, and book unique short term workspace rentals around the world. VAGA helps companies with extra space rent it out to tenants looking for rentals from 18 months down to by-the-hour. With VAGA Concierge (a simple request for what is needed, anywhere in the world, and VAGA Concierge presents options and manages the booking) and vaga.co (an online platform for automated booking of short term space – currently in Charleston, SC and growing to new cities), VAGA enables access to space that otherwise goes unused and helps companies save money.

harborGood.com is the easy-to-use online marketplace that converts in-kind donations into cash to fund charitable causes. Supporters participate in the marketplace to contribute to their chosen organization as donors or buyers of goods, services and rentals. harborGood eliminates the need to orchestrate a match between an in-kind donation and a charity’s particular need, enables organizations to raise more funds with less effort and at lower cost and empowers more people to be impactful philanthropists through the simple acts of donating and buying in the marketplace.