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Virtual Final Round Celebration
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
10:30 am - 5:30 pm EST
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Congrats to the final round teams!
Join the CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship on Tuesday, March 23 for its virtual McGinnis Venture Competition final round celebration. Come watch and cheer on the graduate and undergraduate final round teams as they make their final pitches for the chance to win $60K in investments.
Advanced registration is required. Zoom information will be sent to all registered attendees the day before the event.
Event schedule:
10:30 am - 4:00 pm EST - Final Round team pitches
5:00 - 5:30 pm EST - Awards announced
See the full schedule and find out about the final teams here.
The McGinnis Venture Competition is made possible by a generous endowment from Gerald E. McGinnis, founder of Respironics.
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Nimble Robotics Raises $50M to Build the Future of On-Demand Robotic Fulfillment
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Nimble Robotics, a robotics and ecommerce fulfillment technology company founded by CMU alumnus and Swartz Fellow Simon Kalouche, has announced a $50M Series A financing led by DNS Capital and GSR Ventures with participation from Accel and Reinvent Capital among others. The capital raised will further accelerate the company’s hiring plans, product and technology development and scaling of robot deployments for its customers’ fulfillment operations. Read more.
Related story in Tech Crunch
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Venture Bridge: Building Bridges to Silicon Valley
and Beyond
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The CMU Swartz Center's VentureBridge program, directed by Namrata Banerjee, gives alumni founders the tools they need to go from seed stage to successful startup. The free program provides startups with $25K in funding, access to unparalleled mentors and renowned industry experts, weekly roundtables to troubleshoot challenges with fellow founders, targeted one-on-one advice and co-working and incubation spaces in San Francisco’s Financial District and on CMU's Silicon Valley campus. Read more.
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Carnegie Mellon University Startups To Compete at Rice Business Plan Competition
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| Three CMU startups, along with 51 other teams, will be competing in the Rice Business Plan Competition virtually on April 6-9, 2021. The teams are:
• Aspire360 - Eleanor Haglund, founder and CEO
• MindTrace (2021 McGinnis Venture Competition finalist) - Team: Raouf Belkhir, Max Sims, Hugo Angulo and Bradford Mahon
• SimpL - Kunal Gandhi, founder and CEO
Read more about the competition and the teams.
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Fireside Chat with Allegheny Health Network (AHN)
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
5:30 PM EST
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The CMU Swartz Center is honored to host Jeffrey K. Cohen, MD, Chief Physician Executive, Community Health and Innovation at Allegheny Health Network (AHN), for an intimate fireside chat. Dr. Cohen is helping to lead a number of accelerator initiatives in Pittsburgh, including AHN's recent partnership with Innovation Works to form AlphaLab Health. In addition to this exciting new cohort, Dr. Cohen and AHN are repurposing the old Suburban General Hospital (SGH) and will have 180,000 square feet of available space, providing substantial benefits to the startup community.
Joining Dr. Cohen will be Will Kaigler, Swartz Center EIR, assistant teaching professor and CEO and co-founder of sovaSage, Inc., and the discussion will be moderated by Craig Markovitz, assistant teaching professor and Swartz Center EIR.
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VentureBridge Mentor Matching Event
Thursday, March 18, 2021
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm (PST) | 7:00 – 8:30 PM (EST)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
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The CMU Swartz Center's VentureBridge program is hosting its Spring Startup Pitch and Mentor Matching Mixer on Thursday, March 18, 2021.
Finding the right mentors and advisors can make a significant difference to an entrepreneur. The VentureBridge program helps to facilitate these connections through organized matching events. Entrepreneurs are given two minutes to pitch and present their startup to a group of alumni mentors. After the presentations, mentors and entrepreneurs have time to interact and participate in a mutual, matching process.
Interested CMU entrepreneurs and startups can apply to present here. Email questions to apetkov@andrew.cmu.edu
Open to all CMU students, faculty, staff and alumni startups.
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| The James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Leadership Series presents: Virtual Fireside Chat with Co-founders of Mambu
Co-sponsored by: CMU Tech and Entrepreneurship
Monday, March 29, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 PM EST
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*Registration required. A link to the Zoom webinar will be sent the day before
the event*
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| Join the CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship and the CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship community for an in depth, virtual fireside chat with CMU HCI alumni and Mambu co-founders Eugene Danilkis (CEO), Frederik Pfisterer and Sofia Nunes.
Mambu, the Berlin based SaaS cloud banking platform, serves fintech start-ups, telcos and top tier banks including ABN AMRO, N26 and OakNorth, Globe Telecom and Orange. The company, which just raised $135M, operates on six continents and is changing the way financial institutions operate and innovate. As the industry leader in cloud banking, Mambu is taking on the $250B market of banking technology worldwide, and services more than 180 customers with over 33M end users.
Find out more about the founders.
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Applications Open!
2021-2023 Undergraduate Innovation Scholars Program
The CMU Swartz Center has opened applications for its 2021-2023 cohort of Undergraduate Innovation Scholars. Undergraduate students from across CMU may apply beginning March 5, 2021 through April 2, 2021. This two-year program fosters innovation and entrepreneurship, provides mentoring opportunities and seeks to increase the number of successful startup companies initiated by or involving CMU's undergraduate students. The two-year program includes academic coursework, work experience at a startup, networking and mentorship--given and received.
Find out more, view the flyer (pdf) and apply by April 2, 2021 at 11:59 PM.
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CONNECTS/START SMART LAW Seminars
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| See the full Spring 2021 schedule here.
Can't make a CONNECTS seminar? Watch on our YouTube channel.
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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. Please visit and find out more.
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CMU ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUBS
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| CMU TECH & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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The focus of the CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship is to connect the CMU community, alumni and students, building an entrepreneurial culture and providing resources for the community to succeed. There are multiple region-based chapters within the group. Find out more.
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Upcoming Events for YCombinator Aspirants!
CMU Virtual Shark Tank
March 15, 2021|5-7PM, PST
Join the CMU T&E for a virtual Shark Tank is a platform where budding CMU entrepreneurs will get an opportunity to pitch their startup in a live, virtual event to experienced investor and CMU graduate,
Ivan Kirigin. Participants will receive real-time feedback and advice from Ivan, who has a long career that spans several industries. Apply to attend.
Y-Combinator 1:1 Mentorship
This initiative is aimed at helping current YC applicants to connect with former YC alumni who will provide feedback and advice on their application. Applicants will be paired with a YC mentor who will provide personalized insight on their application. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Sign up here.
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Design Talent Needed for sovaSage, Inc.
sovaSage Inc., an AI-based patient management telemedicine platform founded by CMU professor Will Kaigler, is looking for help with designing branded literature suitable for its customers to market the sovaSage service to customers. Excellent design talent and an innovative approach to problem solving are all that are required! Send inquiries to wkaigler@sovasage.com
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Affordable Engineering and Technical Talent for CMU Startups
Are you a CMU startup looking for great engineering and/or technical talent at low cost?
Slingshot is a global startup incubator that offers mentored internships to CMU startups by extremely gifted high school students across the globe. Over the past year, the founders at Slingshot have identified and validated that there is huge, untapped industry-grade engineering talent in the form of high-school students across the world; students who lack access to quality, real-world CS opportunities.
With Slingshot, interns receive solid, real-world software engineering experience that lets them take their skills to the next level, while founders like you get a team of highly talented engineers to help you prototype and perfect your technologies at low cost. It’s a win-win match.
Learn more at info@slingshotmentoring.com to begin hiring amazing talent at low cost.
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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
The Swartz Center's Project Olympus incubator program welcomes all students, faculty, staff and alumni from all schools at any stage, including social enterprise and life-style business ideas. Find out more. Sign up for Expert Office Hours.
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COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES/RESOURCES
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Undergraduate Innovation Scholars
The Undergraduate Innovation Scholars program fosters innovation and entrepreneurship and seeks to increase the number of successful startup companies initiated by or involving CMU's undergraduate students. This two-year program integrates academic coursework, work experience in a startup company, networking and mentorship. Find out more.
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