The Southwest Colorado Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs announced the five companies selected for their 2017 program.

This year’s participants are:

AprèsActive, an outdoor adventure mixed reality software company, founded by Tal-ee Roberts, Tyler Fischer and Guy Ewing.Toast Mobile Lounge, a mobile bar for parties or events, owned by Carol Clark.The SmartBiz, a business dashboard that provides businesses with performance metrics, founded by Erin Neer, CEO.Technical Gear Solutions, a designer of innovative backpack systems used to carry logging and fire-fighting equipment, founded by Aaron Blue and Nick Coffey, CEO.Distributed Energy Strategies, a service that provides expertise to optimize and deploy distributed energy resources, founded by Jeff Berman and Chris Calwell.For more information, visit www.goscape.org.