Windsor startup named winner of Monfort’s Entrepreneurial Challenge

GREELEY — Stow, an online community and marketplace for storage, has been selected as the winner for Monfort College of Business’ eighth annual Entrepreneurial Challenge, bringing in $25,000.

The Windsor-based company presented to a panel of judges in a Shark Tank-style competition at the University Center on the University of Northern Colorado campus. Its concept works by letting users with extra storage space make money by listing it on the Stow platform.

Stow beat out four other startups in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado.

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The second-place team, Fort Collins’ Lacuna Diagnostics, received $13,000, and the third-place team, Class Composer, won $7,000. Fourth and fifth place, EZ Protein and To Market, each received $2,500.

In addition to prize money, each startup will get business incubator services from the university’s incubator, UNC BizHub.

Colorado-based startup ventures were open to apply for the competition.

The six judges for the competition included Bruce Biggi, owner of consulting firm The Carta Group; Karol Jones, chief financial officer of Colorado Lending Source; Michael O’Donnell, executive director of Colorado Lending Source; Jon Rarick, owner of Trans World Supplies Inc.; Mike Shoop, president of Professional Finance Co. Inc. and Michael Trotter, president of Front Range Roofing Systems LLC.