If you have the chance to attend last year’s Bend Venture Conference, then you probably saw the wonder that was LuDela candles — smart, real-flame candles that you can turn on with a remote (or with your Alexa). Well the company also caught the attention of Techstars Boulder, and will be joining the accelerator’s 13th class in Colorado.

LuDela is part of the 10-company cohort, which includes six startups from Colorado. Founder Jamie Bianchini is headed to Boulder for the three-month program. His company is currently housed at BendTECH, and Jamie plans to return Central Oregon after Techstars wraps up.

Jamie took second place at unConference and was a BVC early stage finalist. He started his company after experiencing a candle fire while on a bike trip in western Africa. He wanted to develop a safer candle that still offered that real-life experience.

Congratulations to Jamie and the LuDela team.

 

Kelly Kearsley

Kelly Kearsley

Kelly Kearsley, the co-founder of StartupBend.com, is passionate about startups, entrepreneurship and Bend. In addition to writing this blog, she creates content and manages content projects for global financial companies, tech firms and startups. She began her career as a newspaper journalist and later worked as a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in WSJ.com, Money Magazine, CNNMoney, MSNBC and Runner's World. See her work at kellykearsley.contently.com or kellykearsley.com.

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