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I got the heads up on a press release coming out tomorrow from ATDC (thanks Lance!).  If you haven’t heard, ATDC and VentureLab is doing an Entrepreneurs Showcase on May 15, 2008.  This will be a chance to mix and mingle with a lot of entrepreneurs as well as folks from ATDC and VentureLab.

Of the six companies that are graduating ATDC, I think I know three of them decently well.  It’s good to see these companies get moved out of ATDC so that space (and more importantly, attention) can be focused on the new companies that are already moving in (folks like Suniva and Clearleap among the many others announced recently).  None of these companies strikes me as being as huge as MindSpring yet (MindSpring was also an ATDC graduate prior to merging with EarthLink).  But then, MindSpring wasn’t a huge success right when they graduated either (although they were definitely on the right path).  If even one of the graduating companies goes on to make it big, then this year’s class will have been a success.

There are also five companies that are graduating from VentureLab - three of which have already moved to ATDC.  Personally I’m surprised this number wasn’t all five of the companies but perhaps the other two (Verco Materials and Zenda Technologies) are in a space that doesn’t make sense for them to be at ATDC.  On a quick glance, this seems to be the case with Verco working in materials technology and Zenda in neurological testing.  Given ATDC’s company composition as of late, these don’t seem to be a good fit.

Once registration opens up for the showcase, I know I’ll be signing up to go.  It’s being held at the Biltmore (just down the street from ATDC) which was in the running to host Startup Riot this year.  Speaking of which, I just hope I’m not too frazzled from planning Startup Riot which will be four days later.  Make sure you go to that too!