Partner: Blue Startups

Founded in 2012, Blue Startups was the brainchild of Henk Rogers and Maya Rogers of the Tetris company and Chenoa Farnsworth of Hawaii Angels. As one of the first accelerators in Hawaii, Blue Startups has been essential in the creation of “Startup Paradise”, now a thriving new startup ecosystem in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Blue Startups was founded with the goal of diversifying Hawaii’s economy by leveraging its unique strengths. Historically dependent on the tourism industry, we envision a Hawaii with a thriving technology sector, creating high paying and interesting jobs for our “keiki” (children).

The partners saw an opportunity to leverage Hawaii’s strengths to develop and bring more technology companies (such as Tetris) to the islands. Targeting scalable technology companies that could grow and thrive here, taking advantage of our sector strengths such as tourism and sustainability, and our unique global position between the Asian economies and the West.

Blue Startups was designed to give startup companies every advantage: mentorship, access to business expertise, product testing, peer review, customer acquisition, pitch development, introductions to investors, and seed funding.

Partnership Scope

Yay and BlueStars formed a strategic partnership in June 2020, to give BlueStars companies and alumni an exclusive offer for stock image and footage assets, providing the community with quality, legal stock media assets at an affordable rate.

About Yay Images Startups Program

Started in 2020, Yay images has created a budding startups program through innovation and ingenuity to give startups and enterprenuers of all sizes access to affordable, legal stocks media assets.

Partnering with leading accelerators, co-working/labs, and incubators, Yay is well on their way to fulfill their mission of helping 100,000 businesses during the pandemic.