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The Swartz Center Announces the VentureBridge ‘23 Cohort
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The VentureBridge program, part of the Carnegie Mellon University Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, is excited to announce its investment in 13 startups headquartered out of San Francisco, New York and Pittsburgh, representing brilliant and ambitious alumni founders of Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Northwestern, UC Berkeley, Michigan, Maryland and Georgia Tech.
The new cohort companies are: Addy AI, AugX Labs, Berri, ByMe, Conduit, Erosion, Fluid Reality, Leaficient Inc., Pendulum, Upview, Velo AI and 2 Stealth Companies.
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TalkMeUp Founder JJ Xu Featured in Economic Innovation Group Series on Immigrant Entrepreneurs
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Skilled immigrants play an essential role in making the United States the largest and most advanced economy in the world. CMU Tepper School of Business alumna and TalkMeUp founder JJ Xu, shares her journey as an immigrant founder for a new Economic Innovation Group series highlighting the impact of immigrant entrepreneurs across America.
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Announcing the Customer Discovery Kickstart
Program's June 2023 Cohort
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The Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship’s Project Olympus Incubator has accepted twelve startup teams to its June 2023 cohort of the Customer Discovery Kickstart, a program for early-stage startups to explore the feasibility of their business ideas.
Startup teams in the 5-week program will learn about the fundamentals of customer discovery, including conducting customer discovery interviews and will receive coaching from experienced Entrepreneurs-in-Residence. Teams include undergraduate and graduate students, staff and alumni from many CMU schools and departments including: College of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Dietrich College, School of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Tepper School of Business (including Isaiah Rodgers, Innovation Scholar-3rd row, pictured 4th).
For information about the Kickstart program, contact Melanie Simko, Program Manager.
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Innovation Works Celebrates Latest Round of Startups to Include CMU'sToyz Electronix, Kloopify and Voaige
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Pittsburgh's Innovation Works Inc. recently celebrated the latest round of startups receiving financial support from the organization during a showcase event at its AlphaLab Gear accelerator space last week. Each of the startups received an investment of at least $50K in convertible notes to further build out their ideas or products, though some were eligible for larger checks or had already obtained them due to prior involvement in IW programs.
Three of the companies are Carnegie Mellon startups: Kloopify,
Voaige (Swartz Center, VentureBridge) and ToyzElectronics (Swartz Center).
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| Sankalp Arora, Founder of Gather AI
Named Most Influential CEO 2023 - Pittsburgh
(Warehouse Automation)
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Gather AI’s drone-powered inventory monitoring solution improves warehouse visibility and traceability, decreasing the cost of accuracy, optimizing productivity and boosting revenue.
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CONNECTS/START SMART LAW SEMINARS
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| See the full Spring 2023 schedule here.
Can't make a CONNECTS? Watch on our YouTube channel.
The CONNECTS seminars have ended for the Spring semester and will resume at the start of the Fall semester in September, 2023.
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The mission of 99 Tartans is to partner with the highest potential, early-stage CMU alumni companies and accelerate their success through access to capital and networks. Find out more.
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CMU ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUBS
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Note the date correction: Sunday, June 25, 2023
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The CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship group connects the CMU community, alumni and students, to build an entrepreneurial culture and provide resources to help the community succeed. There are multiple region-based chapters within the group. Find out more and join the CMU T&E blog,
the CMU Tech Entrepreneur!
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The following companies help directly support our programming and entrepreneurs.
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| Pillsbury and Steptoe & Johnson, PLLC are holding in-person office hours at the CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, Tepper Quad, 4765 Forbes Avenue, 3rd Floor. The office hours are for any interested CMU graduate, undergraduate or alumni interested in entrepreneurship or connecting with members of the Swartz Center network.
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Legal Services and Weekly Office Hours with Matt Kirmayer
Mondays 1:00-3:00 PM ET (10-12 PT)
To sign up for a 30 minute session, please contact Daria Stokes and she will arrange an appointment with Matt. If you need to schedule an office hour outside of these regular hours, please inform Daria.
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Legal Services Weekly Office Hours
Sign up for weekly office hours.
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| PATRON SPOTLIGHT
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble (P&G) serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks® and Whisper®.
The P&G community includes operations in approximately 70 countries with thirteen research and development centers worldwide. Since 1837, P&G’s success is rooted in research and development and strong external partnerships with academia, entrepreneurs and start-ups. P&G would like to continue this legacy by partnering with you to bring your ideas to life. Find out more here.
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HOW TO WORK OUT OF THE SWARTZ CENTER
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Swartz Center Education and Resources
No matter what phase of the entrepreneurship cycle you're in, there are programs and resources at the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship that will take your idea to the next level. Find out more.
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Project Olympus Incubator Program
Want more help with finding product/market fit, developing your business model, making connections and attracting funding? Project Olympus will team you up with a business coach to develop a personalized ‘roadmap. Find out more.
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COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES/RESOURCES
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Have an idea you want to explore? Don’t have the time or resources to fully examine it, but think it could be transformative for your company? The Corporate Startup Lab (CSL), a Swartz Center initiative, allows you to join a cohort of peer companies and work with Carnegie Mellon University graduate students to investigate what’s possible over the course of a semester.
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FIND OUT WHAT OUR PARTNERS ARE DOING
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Have startup news or opportunities to share? Have questions about the Swartz Center Weekly Bulletin? Send news, opportunities or questions to Sonya Ford, Program Manager.
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Carnegie Mellon University Swartz Center For Entrepreneurship
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