Photo courtesy of Cole Kinchler.
Cole Kinchler
Cole Kinchler is a 2012 OMHS graduate.
Cole Kinchler graduated Oak Mountain High School in 2012 and is now the COO of the company SimplyProse.
SimplyProse offers a collaboration space for writers, copy editors, literary agents and publishing houses. Users are able to receive critiques on their work and connect to literary professionals.
Kinchler is now a student at Auburn University and has entered SimplyProse in several startup competitions. The company finished in second at Auburn’s Tiger Cage startup competition, where Shark Tank judge and As Seen On TV founder Kevin Harrington was a judge. The company also won a $40,000 prize through the statewide competition Alabama Launchpad.
SimplyProse also represented Auburn at the SEC Symposium Entrepreneurial Pitch Competition in September. They were also invited to participate at Tech Crunch Disrupt, a large startup conference in Silicon Valley.
Kincheler works with Jake Wright, CEO of SimplyProse and fellow Auburn student. Their company is incubated out of Round House, a space in Opelika, Alabama that helps foster startup companies.
For more information about the company, visit simplyprose.com.
-Submitted by Cole Kinchler
