We’re highlighting the business owners in our 2024-25 AccelerateHER Denton Cohort. Learn more about these amazing entrepreneurs and the stories behind their businesses.
AccelerateHER 2024 Cohort Spotlight: Pinned Ptera
AccelerateHER 2024 Cohort Spotlight: Triptych Coffee Co.
AccelerateHER 2024 Cohort Spotlight: Kimberly Burdine Psychological Services & Consulting
AccelerateHER 2024 Cohort Spotlight: Azul Therapies, LLC
AccelerateHER 2024 Cohort Spotlight: Brite Smiles by Heather
Stoke Member Spotlight: Rob Curran
Rob Curran is the kind of person who has never met a stranger. If you’re fortunate enough to be in the Stoke coworking space at the same time that he is, you’re going to have a good day. You might even walk over to La Estrella and get some amazing tacos and chat over lunch. That’s the kind of vibe we super appreciate here at Stoke, so when Rob is away for the summer, we all shed a collective tear and can’t wait for him to return in the fall to regale us with tales of his adventures, make us all laugh until we cry, and perhaps sing us a little ditty.
Learn more about what Rob does (he writes!) and about him in his own words.
Stoke Member Spotlight: Kim Cash, Bookkeeper Girl
Stoke Member Spotlight: Rachel Weaver
Stoke Member Spotlight: Randi Skinner
Randi Skinner has 15+ years of experience as a marketing and business development professional and works to help small businesses (who might have limited marketing budgets) with their marketing goals! Randi has mentored during Stoke’s Coffee + Convo sessions and has a way of making you think differently about any projects or problems you might have. Her positive energy is contagious, and we’re so thankful to know her!
Stoke Member Spotlight: Noel Winslow
Stoke Member Spotlight: Terrance Menyweather
Stoke Member Spotlight: Peter Brigaitis
Stoke Member Spotlight: John Knowles
John Knowles landed a full-time position in software development after an internship with Stoke member company, Team of Defenders. He works as a level one software developer and shared some of his experience with us, including ideal results of attending a tech job fair here at Stoke!
Read the whole interview!
Stoke Member Spotlight: Valerie Gurka
Valerie works for Clear Measure, a DevOps-Centered Software Engineering company that specializes in Microsoft technologies and cloud-based platforms. She manages DevOps and custom software projects of all sizes. Read on to learn more about how one of our newest Stoke members helped a delivery company save a whopping $1.5 million a year, and to learn about a pretty royal tribute band name hint hint.
Stoke Member Spotlight: Heath Padgett
Meet Heath: RV Entrepreneur, CEO and Co-Founder at CampgroundBooking, working in the recreational vehicle and camping industry. Bitten by the travel bug, instead of a traditional honeymoon, Heath and his wife took off on a five year adventure in an RV across the country four days after their wedding. He’s a Stoke member who has quite a story to tell.
Check out Heath’s member spotlight to read about the device he says will make you feel like James Bond and a harrowing experience involving an un-hitched vehicle on I35, along with details on becoming an entrepreneur and what his work life and style looks like.
