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| Carnegie Mellon University Spinout VoxEQ Raises $2M
GOVO Venture Partners made its fourth portfolio company investment, leading a $2M seed round for the CMU spinout, VoxEQ. VoxEQ, a spinout through NREC/Carnegie Foundry, offers world class voice artificial intelligence to improve and protect human interactions.
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| Choolaah Opens New Location in Westlake on December 15
Founded by Carnegie Mellon University alumna and Co-CEO of Wholesome International Raji Sankar, Choolaah will now open its third location in Cleveland, Ohio in Westlake, located at Crocker Commons, a mixed-use plaza across the street from Crocker Park. This will be the seventh store for the
Cleveland-based company.
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Carnegie Mellon University to Buy National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC)
After nearly 30 years, Carnegie Mellon University is poised to buy the real estate in which it has long operated the National Robotics Engineering Center, the linchpin of the city's Robotics Row that has grown up in the Strip District and Lawrenceville and a lodestar for the regional economy.
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| CMU's Deniz Birlikci Wins $50K SAFE Note At Berkeley's
Demo Day
CMU student and Innovation Scholar Deniz Birlikci and Arda Akman, founders of ObviousAI, recently won the AI Entrepreneurs in Berkeley's Demo Day competition. ObviousAI received a 50K SAFE note through Unusual Ventures, marking the first investment into the company.
ObviousAI is finetuning fashion product discovery on users' aesthetics. Their first product, ShopMyStyle, allows users to find products through searching with their natural language, or images.
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| Calling ALL Current CMU Student Entrepreneurs!
Registration is open for the 2024 McGinnis Venture Competition, a platform exclusively for Carnegie Mellon University's community of student entrepreneurs. This competition brings together Carnegie Mellon's best and brightest student entrepreneurs to compete for $60K in investments. All participants receive crucial interaction with alumni entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, an opportunity to raise capital and valuable feedback about ventures.
The Round one submission deadline is January 16, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET.
Learn more about the competition and hear from previous participants at the next info session:
Info Session - January 10, 2024
Register
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| CONNECTS/START SMART LAW SEMINARS
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| The CONNECTS/START SMART LAW seminars have ended for the Fall semester and will return in January, 2024.
Can't make a CONNECTS? Watch on our YouTube channel.
Find out more and see the full schedule.
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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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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 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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Swartz Center Patron Office Hours
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 currently 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.
To sign up for a 30 minute session with Matt, complete the Signup Form by the Thursday prior to your desired appointment. If you need to schedule an office hour outside of these regular hours,
contact Daria Stokes.
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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.
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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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The James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows program fast-tracks the careers of Carnegie Mellon University's first year graduate students who are passionate about entrepreneurship. Applications for the 2023-25 cohort are currently open through October 15, 2023. Find out more.
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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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