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| CMU Lab to Market - Spring 2026 - San Francisco
Wednesday, February 11!
Come and hear from Carnegie Mellon University's top research spin-off companies at the third Lab to Market event with a keynote fireside chat featuring Aravind Srinivas, Co-founder, President & CEO, Perplexity and Sameer Gandhi, Partner, Accel.
This invite-only event is for deep tech investors and founders.
To request an invite, email Melanie Simko or Namrata Banerjee.
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| PDS Health Selects Pearl as Enterprise AI Partner to
Support Scaled Clinical Integration
PDS Health®, a leading integrated healthcare support organization, has selected Pearl as its enterprise partner to expand the use of artificial intelligence that supports real-time radiologic review and enterprise-level clinical insight across its more than 1,100 dental practices nationwide. Founded by CMU alumnus and CEO Ophir Tanz, Pearl’s platform will provide real-time radiologic support and enterprise-grade clinical intelligence to support diagnostic consistency and clinical insight at scale.
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CMU's ScottyLabs presents: Tartan Hacks | Feb 6-7!
TartanHacks is an 24-hour, in-person hackathon taking place at CMU on February 6-7, 2026. The event is a great opportunity to use your skills on real world projects and impress recruiters who are scouting for intern and full-time technology roles. There will be a keynote talk from the creator of Mathematica, Stephen Wolfram and top-placing projects will win thousands of dollars!
Sponsors include: AppLovin, Optiver, Accenture, Sandia National Laboratories, Visa and Jane Street.
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Join uea.x!
Explore. Experiment. Execute.
Building for fun? Want to use it to land your dream internship? Want to turn it into a startup? Join uea.x, an initiative to support builders at CMU through mentorship, funding and community. You'll receive:
• 1-on-1 Mentorship from anyone on our list below! Our mentors specialize in a variety of industries — find the right person for project or career advice. Our mentors range from YC-founders who raised millions in funding to CMU alums working at Google, Microsoft, BCG, Tesla, Palantir, NASA, and more.
• UEA Funding to grow your idea
• Bi-weekly speaker events featuring people who successfully turned their passion project into startups or tailored their projects to land their dream internship/job.
• Community of builders for support (and free food during build sessions!)
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Join HAX Ventures and the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship for an exclusive summit connecting founders, investors, and defense innovation leaders at the forefront of dual-use technology. This half-day summit brings together the defense innovation ecosystem—from government program managers to startup founders to academic researchers—for candid conversations about commercializing
dual-use technologies.
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Special Talk: Financial Tools for Tech Business
Startups and Beyond
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Time: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. EST
Location: Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business, 4765 Forbes Avenue, 3rd Floor
Learn crucial financial knowledge that will help your startup businesses and growing businesses. Speakers will include Chrissy O' Hara and Ben Taylor from SoftLedger, as well as a Q&A panel from FEI.
This event is hosted by Financial Executives International Pittsburgh - The Mentoring Committee.
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Search, Buy, Build: Entrepreneurship Through
Acquisition (ETA) Seminar
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2026
Location: Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business, 4765 Forbes Avenue, 3rd Floor
Join us for this curated and practical intensive for professionals ready to acquire and operate their own business. This seminar is built for anyone interested in learning how to acquire and run a small business. You will accelerate your path into ETA through panel conversations with experienced acquirers, investors and acquisition experts.
Led by Chris Cynkar and Len Caric, the audience will learn the key phases of the acquisition process and hear about searchers’ real-world experiences, get advice from experts in the field and engage in candid discussions about key acquisition topics.
For questions, reach out to Timothy Watts at timothy.watts@scottiefetch.com.
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CMU Energy Week | March 17-20, 2026
The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University would like to extend a personal invitation to you to be a part of our energy innovation ecosystem by participating in CMU Energy Week 2026, which will be held March 17-20, 2026, in CMU’s Cohon University Center.
With participation from academia, industry, and government leaders, the theme Reinventing the Grid for Our Electrified Future seizes on the momentum of innovation and research that surrounds the United States’ power grid as its infrastructure ages, contends with extreme weather events, and supports new energy demands from artificial intelligence and electrified buildings, vehicles, and factories.
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STARTUP JOB OPPORTUNITIES
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Design at Beacon Social, a Social App startup
that makes it easier to hang out with your friends!
Beacon is a social app that makes it easier to hang out with your friends. We connect people where they are and show them where they want to be, with fine-tuned customization, visibility, sharing, and community management settings.
We are hiring Short-Term Freelance Design Engineers. This person will own the transitions, micro-interactions, and design polish to achieve a premium feel within our core journeys and user flows.
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Apply to the Gebhardt Sandbox Fund by February 20!
Calling all current CMU undergraduate and graduate students! Apply to the Gebhardt Sandbox Fund to receive a $1K grant towards your startup!
Email questions to apetkov@andrew.cmu.edu.
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| Are you a CMU alumni working on a startup? Apply to the CMU VentureBridge 2026 accelerator in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and New York for funding, 1:1 support, founder roundtables, weekly talks with VCs and introductions to mentors and advisors.
Learn more and apply for funding here for the 2026 cycle. Feel free to attend the next info session on March 6th to hear from the team directly.
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| CONNECTS/START SMART LEGAL 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 will resume in the Fall 2026 semester.
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**SPRING 2026 START SMART LEGAL SERIES (Virtual)**
ALL virtual sessions held at 5-6:15 PM | ET
February 10
Building Your Team
February 24
Starting a Business with an F-1 Student Visa
March 24 & April 7
How to Structure Your Capital Raise | Part 2 Workshop
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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.
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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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Carnegie Mellon University Swartz Center For Entrepreneurship
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