Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
9:00 – 11:00 a.m. CT
Engineering Education and Research Center (EER) – Texas Innovation Center – 2nd Floor, 2.518
Coffee Club brings faculty, staff, graduate students, and researchers together from across campus to talk about translational research projects, disclosed discoveries, and emerging technologies, and to meet other potential startup collaborators. A time where Longhorn Tech Nation innovators network and learn more about UT Austin’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Coffee and light bites provided.
Harold Hughes is the founder & CEO of Bandwagon, a South Carolina-based live experience technology company. Under his leadership, Bandwagon has raised more than $3.5M in venture capital and successfully acquired IdealSeat, Inc. in 2020. Their customers include Fortune 50 brands, entertainers, and professional and collegiate athletes. As a first-generation American,
Harold prioritized education, receiving two Bachelors degrees (Economics and Political Science) from Clemson University and later received his MBA from Clemson while he led business development at a Fortune 1000 company based in Greenville, South Carolina. As a web3 builder and community leader, Harold published “A Kids Book About Blockchain” to help educate
people “from 6 to 60” about the revolutionary technology that Bandwagon specializes in. Harold is also an active angel investor, primarily investing in women, people of color, and Black founder-led companies. Most notably, he has invested in Partake Foods, the Jay-Z-backed CPG company making allergy-friendly snacks, and companies like Goodr, Chipper, Athletic Greens, Republic, Stix, and the National Cycling League.
About Bandwagon
BandwagonFanClub, Inc. (Greenville, SC) is an experience technology company that delivers solutions to help entertainers, athletes, and brands quantify, analyze, and measure fan engagement in a way that allows them to monetize their reach while creating curated experiences for their fans and consumers. Their suite of products includes FanClub™, their NFT enablement platform that connects fans with their favorite brands and entertainers — powered by their Proof of Experience™ blockchain — and IdealSeat™ (acquired in 2020), an NFT-enabled ticketing solution for sub-5000 person events. Bandwagon is a Google Black Founders Fund recipient and backed by Backstage Capital, Unseen Capital, Black Star Fund, Realist Ventures, and SC Launch. For more information, visit bandwagonfanclub.com.