IMPACT 307 expands to Laramie County Community College

The University of Wyoming has announced that their business incubator network, IMPACT 307, is about to get a new home on the Cheyenne campus of Laramie County Community College (LCCC).

IMPACT 307, which was launched as the Wyoming Technology Business Center in 2005, focuses on the creation of innovative and scalable businesses, and it has been working with LCCC on the Southeast Wyoming Innovation Launchpad (SEWYIL) since early 2019.

According to UW Associate Vice President Steve Farkas, the development of IMPACT Cheyenne is not just the natural outcome of the partnership with LCCC; it is one of the early deliverables that UW and the community colleges committed to under Gov. Mark Gordon’s Wyoming Innovation Partnership (WIP) initiative.

IMPACT Cheyenne will be located on the fourth floor of LCCC’s Clay Pathfinder Building and will function as a satellite office of the original UW incubator, IMPACT Laramie. A new temporary staff position will be created with WIP funding to help facilitate the accelerated growth of client companies.

According to a release, LCCC President Joe Schaffer is pleased with the collaboration between the two higher education institutions.

“We’re seeing great benefits to the Cheyenne community as a whole, as well as for LCCC students, with this collaboration with UW,” he said. “This new space is a model that we hope gets duplicated across the state, and I’m proud of the role LCCC has played in pioneering the effort.”

The new incubator space will be co-located with the university’s other Business Resource Network partners, Manufacturing Works and the Small Business Development Center.

“Laramie County entrepreneurs and existing businesses will soon have one place that they can go to get a wide range of assistance for their businesses,” Farkas says.

For more information on IMPACT Cheyenne or the SEWYIL Pitch Day event, visit www.impact307.org; or email impactcheyenne@uwyo.edu or fschmech@uwyo.edu.