Changing Lanes CDL Driving School Announced as 2022 Austin FC Dream Starter Competition Winner
22 Giugno 2022 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Changing Lanes will receive $100,000 in funding
to accelerate its entrepreneurial ventures
Changing Lanes CDL Driving school was today announced as the
winner of the 2022 Austin FC Dream Starter Competition Presented by
Q2 Holdings Inc., in collaboration with DivInc. Changing Lanes will
receive $100,000 in funding to accelerate its entrepreneurial
ventures as part of the Austin FC Dream Starter business
initiative, which aims to fund Austin entrepreneurs from
underrepresented groups.
“We’re honored to announce Changing Lanes CDL Driving School as
this year’s Dream Starter winner,” said Austin FC President Andy
Loughnane. “This competition showcased Austin’s amazing
entrepreneurial community once again, and we’d like to thank Q2 and
DivInc for their help in making it possible.”
Founded by Delbert Crawford in Austin, Texas, Changing Lanes CDL
Driving School teaches individuals from diverse backgrounds how to
safely drive a commercial vehicle. The school's training programs
helps its students, many of whom are unemployed, gain the skills
necessary for jobs driving commercial vehicles, changing the
trajectory of their lives.
The $100,000 in Dream Starter funds will allow Changing Lanes to
purchase an additional truck needed for commercial vehicle driver’s
training, and empower them to offer more scholarships and extend
additional training opportunities to more students.
“I am honored to be recipient of this award,” said Crawford.
“This represents all the hard work, people believing in me,
investing in me, and encouraging me when I doubted and second
guessed myself and my dream. Hard work does pay off.”
The other 2022 Dream Starter finalists included were Swella, a
standardized system within salons that utilizes robotics to
automate the process of hair braiding; Mach1 Services, a fully
automated and digitized dispatch platform for emergency roadside
assistance; Paradigm Robotics, LLC, introducing the FireBot, the
world’s first, high-temperature thermally-insulated, wirelessly
controlled, obstacle-climbing, unmanned robot that can be deployed
into burning buildings; and Independent Identity, an Applied
Behavior Analysis (ABA) day program for adults with autism/IDD who
exhibit challenging behavior.
Changing Lanes, along with the other finalists, participated in
a pitch contest on June 8 at Q2 Stadium, where a diverse group of
representatives from Austin FC, Q2 Holdings Inc., and other
executives from the Austin entrepreneurial community evaluated each
finalist’s presentation. As the winner, Changing Lanes will be
honored with a check presentation during halftime at the Austin FC
vs. FC Dallas match on Saturday, June 25.
"On behalf of the Q2 team, I’m excited to congratulate Mr.
Crawford and Changing Lanes on winning this year’s Dream Starter
competition,” said Q2 CEO Matt Flake. “Their story is a perfect
example of why we started this initiative: they’re founded right
here in Austin and are doing work that has a direct impact on our
community. We’re tremendously proud to partner with Austin FC in
bringing the Dream Starter competition to life and look forward to
continuing to work together to improve our Austin entrepreneurial
scene.”
Click here to learn more about Changing Lanes CDL Driving
School.
About Austin FC
Austin FC joined Major League Soccer (MLS) as the League’s 27th
club in January 2019. Austin FC officially began competing in MLS
in April 2021 and played its first match at home on June 19, 2021,
in the new, 100% privately financed, $260 million, state-of-the-art
Q2 Stadium in Austin.
Austin FC operates the Austin FC Academy, the fully funded
developmental academy representing the highest level of competition
for elite youth soccer players in Central Texas, while serving as
the exclusive developmental pathway to MLS for the region’s most
talented young players.
About Q2 Holdings, Inc.
Q2 is a financial experience company dedicated to providing
digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions,
alternative finance, and fintech companies in the U.S. and
internationally. With comprehensive end-to-end solution sets, Q2
enables its partners to provide cohesive, secure, data-driven
experiences to every account holder–from consumer to small business
and corporate. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Q2 has offices
worldwide and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the stock symbol
QTWO. To learn more, please visit Q2.com.
About DivInc
DivInc is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to
generate social and economic equity through entrepreneurship by
equipping underrepresented founders with access to the critical
resources they need to build investable companies. To drive
systematic change, DivInc offers multiple programming opportunities
including a 12-week accelerator for early-stage startups. Since its
founding in 2016, DivInc has supported 73 companies resulting in
$14mill in investment fundraising, 400+ jobs created, and over
$4mill in revenue generated by our alumni. DivInc is headquartered
in Austin, TX, with a second location in Houston, TX. Learn more at
https://www.divinc.org.
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