Rice-born company participates in entrepreneurship showcase

Top photo, pictured from left: Rice University trustee Charley Landgraf '75 poses with Guerra as he visits the Skylark Wireless booth to learn more about the startup company and their participation in the showcase.

Skylark Wireless LLC, a startup founded in a Rice University engineering laboratory by Ryan Guerra ’19 and Clayton Shepard ’17, was one of 20 participants in the 2019 University Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Showcase April 10 in Washington, D.C.

The wireless networking hardware company, headquartered in Houston, specializes in television white space systems and wireless beamforming, or “massive MIMO,” technologies for 5G wireless.

Top photo, pictured from left: Rice University trustee Charley Landgraf ’75 poses with Guerra as he visits the Skylark Wireless booth to learn more about the startup company and their participation in the showcase.

Bottom photo: Rep. Frank Lucas, R-OK, ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, speaks to the showcase attendees.

Photos by Nathan Cook.

Rep. Frank Lucas, R-OK, ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, speaks to the showcase attendees.

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