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Family Business Leadership Series Talk, November 18
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Family Business Leadership Series Presents: Ida Posner
and Henry Posner III
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Location: Swartz Center, Tepper Quad Bldg, 4765 Forbes Avenue, 3rd Floor
Join Henry & Ida Posner for a conversation on stewardship, legacy and leadership across generations as part of the Family Business Leadership Speaker Series hosted by the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. The discussion will explore how family enterprises sustain growth while navigating legacy and leadership transitions in today’s evolving economic landscape.
Refreshments will be provided.
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Mine Vision Systems Announces $12.5M Series A to Accelerate Underground Mining Decision Platform
Carnegie Mellon IP company Mine Vision Systems (MVS), the leader in vision-driven mapping and analytics for underground mining, today announced a $12.5 million Series A financing led by Rockwell Venture Capital with a significant commitment from Condire Investors. The capital will fuel rapid execution of MVS's product strategy and expansion of its decision-making platform for underground operations, building on strong industry momentum in 2025.
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Passionfruit Labs is Live on Product Hunt!
Passionfruit, a 2022 VentureBridge company co-founded by CMU alumnus Rishabh Chatterjee, CTO and Aditya J., CEO, allows you to track real revenue from AI search, see exactly which competitor pages win citations, learn the sentiment LLMs have of your brand and get instant recommendations that actually work.
Visit Product Hunt and comment "LABS" to receive a free 7 day trial!
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SWARTZ CENTER FOUNDER SPOTLIGHTS
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| Volunteer Opportunity with CMU Startup sr.cag ML Solutions
Interested in using Data Science for public impact?
CMU MSPPM-DA student and James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow Mehri Sadri is a founder at sr.cag ML Solutions, a student-led start-up that builds open-source, predictive analytics tools to support government agencies, nonprofits and political campaigns using data insights to guide local action and policy reform in Pittsburgh and in San Diego.
The company is looking for Media/Communications Volunteers, Outreach Volunteers and Data Science Volunteers! With only a 3-5 hour weekly commitment, it’s an easy way to add impactful projects to your resume while keeping your schedule manageable.
FAQs for volunteers. Visit the website. Send questions to msadri@andrew.cmu.edu.
Open to all undergraduate and graduate students across the United States!
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Opportunity for App/Web Developer and Game
Designer for CMU Startup!
CurlyCubs is a fun, educational platform that helps kids and their parents learn how to care for their curly hair together. It’s all about making hair care easier while building self-love and confidence around their curls.
CurlyCubs founder Danely Rodriguez, a CMU Tepper School of Business student and Innovation Scholar at the CMU Swartz Center, is looking for a game designer and an app/web developer who is excited about creating something meaningful for families and the curly hair community.
If you're interested in helping Danely change how the next generation sees their curly hair—one family at a time—contact her at: danelyr@andrew.cmu.edu.
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| Voice-Driven AI for Faster Team Alignment
Meet Agilow, the voice-AI agent that facilitates asynchronous communication to reduce meeting duration, maintain kanban boards and automate KPI reporting.
A Swartz Center-incubated startup built by two Carnegie Mellon founders— Shiv Panjwani and Antonio Bojorges—with backgrounds in engineering management, Agilow develops cutting-edge solutions to remove the administrative burden of project coordination.
After completing successful pilots with Pittsburgh-based AI companies, Agilow is now expanding to more teams in Pittsburgh. If your company is seeking solutions to balance innovation with day-to-day operations, the Agilow team guarantees seamless onboarding and integration into your processes.
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Calling All Current CMU Student Entrepreneurs!
Announcing the 2026 McGinnis Venture Competition
& Social Enterprise Prize
Start your application by December 1 to receive a coach!
· Applications are now open for the 2026 McGinnis Venture Competition and Social Enterprise Prize!
The McGinnis Venture Competition is a platform exclusively for Carnegie Mellon University’s global community of student entrepreneurs, bringing together the best and brightest to compete for $60K in investments. All participants receive coaching, valuable feedback and an opportunity to raise capital.
This multi-round competition begins with two virtual rounds and will culminate in a final live-round celebration on March 17, 2026.
Social Enterprise Prize
Ready to create a company that makes an impact on the world's biggest challenges? The Swartz Center's Social Enterprise Prize is designed to empower students to develop entrepreneurial solutions for social and environmental challenges.
Register for the next virtual Info Session!
Come learn about the 2026 McGinnis Venture Competition & Social Enterprise Prize. Find out important deadlines and details.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Register
Advanced registration required for the info sessions. Zoom details will be sent to registered attendees the day before the event.
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| 2025 Pittsburgh Legal AI Summit
Join a select gathering of lawyers, legal operations leaders, AI researchers and academic thinkers for a free, one-day summit at Carnegie Mellon University.
This event is hosted by Coheso, a cutting-edge, end-to-end operations platform for in-house legal and compliance teams co-founded by CMU alumnus Manish Agnihotri, in collaboration with CMU’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. The event will bring together the leading voices shaping how AI is built, governed, and applied across the legal domain.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided!
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Applications for the Spring 2026 CSL Project Course are
Now Open through December 5!
Applications for enrollment in the CSL Project Course are open. Open to any Carnegie Mellon University Graduate student located in Pittsburgh. Acceptance into the course will be based on a completed application and interview with a course instructor on a rolling basis. Applications will close on Friday, December 5.
Find out more about the CSL Project course.
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| CONNECTS/START SMART LAW SEMINARS
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| Can't make a CONNECTS? Watch on our YouTube channel.
See the full schedule and register for ALL of the seminars here!
The CONNECTS Seminars have ended for the Fall semester and will resume in the Spring.
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START SMART LEGAL SERIES
12/2
REGISTER
How to Handle Your (and other's) Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property is an asset to be protected. This session will cover how to deal with IP issues.
All Fall 2025 Start Smart Legal Series sessions will be held virtually from 5:00-6:15 P.M. Start Smart Legal Series recordings will NOT be made available to the public due to the sensitive nature of the information shared. Program resources may be provided upon request at the discretion of the presenters.
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CMU ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUBS
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| Click the images to find out more about each of the Clubs!
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The CMU T&E has a jobs board, available for people across the community to share and seek new opportunities in the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Find out more and visit the website here.
The CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship group aims to build a bridge between CMU students and alumni across the startup and tech continuum. With main chapters in NYC, Pittsburgh, and SF, we offer a range of in-person and online events and programming in the form of panels, workshops, founder/investor engagements, startup support, and socials to foster collaboration, innovation, and
networking opportunities.
Join 7,000+ Tartans on our Slack workspace and mailing list for resources and updates on how you can engage in the community and CMU entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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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 office hours for the CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. 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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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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Legal Services Weekly Virtual Office Hours with Matt Kirmayer
Mondays 1:00-3:00 PM ET (10-12 PT)
Matt Kirmayer of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, is offering office hours for newly established startup and emerging companies. Matt specializes in representing technology startups and emerging growth companies, assisting with entity formation, fundraising and overall growth needs. Startup companies with a founder who is a CMU graduate, undergraduate or alumni is eligible to register for
an appointment. Complete the Signup Form for a 30 minute session by the Thursday prior to your
desired appointment.
Contact Daria Stokes or Sean Mawhinney for office hours outside of these regular hours.
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Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is a multi-jurisdictional, full-service law firm that takes a progressive approach to providing counsel at each stage of a client’s life cycle. Our dedicated team works closely with our clients to form entities, advise on the most advantageous entity type, and design and negotiate joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions. If a client has a dispute, Steptoe & Johnson has a team of business and product liability litigators and labor and employment lawyers to guide clients through these often stressful and disruptive situations.
Steptoe & Johnson brings a strong skillset for data privacy, cyber security and intellectual property matters which are frequent concerns for startups and technology companies. We offer competitive and flexible rates and aim to provide value to our clients.
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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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COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES/RESOURCES
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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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