SC Launch places bet on start-up data company

By Mike Switzer

Published November 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM EST

We’ve recently learned that the South Carolina Research Authority’s investment affiliate, SC Launch has invested $250,000 into our next guest’s startup company to help them continue to develop their data management and analysis product. Mike Switzer interviews Christian Screen, founder of AICG in Fort Mill, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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