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Friday, May 23, 2025
The VentureBridge '25 Cohort Kicks Off in San Francisco and Headed to New York Demo Day
Carnegie Mellon University’s VentureBridge (VB) Program is excited to announce investments into 14 startups! These CMU-alumni-founders, representing the School of Computer Science, College of Engineering and the Tepper School of Business, are building across AI Infrastructure, intelligent agents, robotics, healthtech, cleantech and industrial automation—creating high impact and venture-scale solutions for the largest complex challenges.
The program kicked off last week in the San Francisco Bay Area with 2.5 days of intensive programming spanning multiple fireside chats with venture capital firms, VB alumni-founded startups, large mixers and networking events in San Francisco and Palo Alto, CA.
Special Thank You's:
Thank you to the CMU Swartz Center's incredible partners for their immense support of CMU founders and a special thank you to Smith Point Capital, Rackhouse Venture Capital, Fusion Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, AI Camp, Moon Creative Labs, CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship, 99 Tartans and the CMU Alumni Association Bay Area network.
Thanks also to CMU VB founders Abhishek Dubey - Bolster (VB ‘18), Vishakha Gupta - ApertureData (VB ‘20), Chelsie Hall - ViralMoment (VB ‘21), Miranda Nover, Zach Sussman - Mach9 Robotics (VB ‘21), Raj Tilwa - Focal (VB ‘22), Saurabh Misra - Codeflash (VB ‘23), Leo Ma and Calvin Zhou - RoboForce (VB ‘24), Bob Dimmico - Reveal AI (VB ‘24), and Vai Vishwanathan - Voxel.
Join us for CMU VB Demo Day in New York City on Monday, June 2 during NY Tech Week to meet the next generation of CMU founders and get a first look at what they're building!
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Artian AI Co-Founder and CEO Prashant Reddy Announces $8M Fund Raise
CMU alumnus Prashant Reddy has announced that his company, Artian AI, has raised $8M in funding to accelerate the company's ambitious goal of reliable autonomous multi-agent AI systems for business-critical enterprise processes—at scale. The round was led by Work-Bench, with participation from Foxe Capital/Anthemis and a phenomenal group of early investors and domain experts.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
2025 Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholar Saisri Akondi Harnessed CMU's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem to Revolutionize Care for Diabetics
After Carnegie Mellon University alumna Saisri Akondi earned her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology in India, Dave Mawhinney, founding executive director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, convinced her to pursue her entrepreneurial ambitions at
Carnegie Mellon University.
While at CMU, Akondi found the perfect ecosystem in which to build her medical device startup,
D.Sole, which develops tools that monitor foot biomechanics and provide early warnings to prevent ulcers and infections.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Partner, Head of TxO at Andreessen Horowitz Kofi Ampadu Named to 2025 Power100 Presented by Blueprint Capital Advisors, LLC
Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business alumnus Kofi Ampadu has recently been recognized by the 2025 Power100 Presented By Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC. "This recognition reflects the impactful work I have the privilege of doing every day alongside the a16z Talent x Opportunity team to make entrepreneurship more accessible", Ampadu shared in a recent LinkedIn post.
Kofi is also the Founder and General Partner at SKU'd Ventures and recently began hosting a new podcast, the TxO Startup Hotline Series, targeted to founders seeking answers to a wide range of questions related to startups.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Codeflash Founder Saurabh Misra Shares Why AI-Powered Code Optimization Is Now Essential
Carnegie Mellon University ECE '19 alumnus Saurabh Misra, founder of Codeflash, the platform working to bring AI optimization to workflows, recently shared how his company is championing the recent shift of AI not only assisting with coding, but how it's also pioneering novel, efficient solutions.
Codeflash offers a practical, accessible solution for developers with its AI-powered tool that optimizes Python codebases, ensuring high performance and efficiency.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Carnegie Mellon, Mid-Atlantic Hub Host First NSF I-Corps Cohort for AI, Robotics
The CMU Swartz Center's Project Olympus and the NSF Innovation Corps Hub Mid-Atlantic Region recently hosted entrepreneurs and researchers in AI and Robotics to help faculty, students and alumni transform their research into the next generation of companies.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Metagigs Co-Founder and CEO Alex Garcia Returns to the Swartz Center While Seeking Early-Stage Funding
Tepper School of Business alumnus and Innovation Scholar Alex Garcia returned to the CMU Swartz Center this week to work with his Pittsburgh team as they seek early-stage funding for his company Metagigs, a platform that allows video game players to find and hire experts through an official marketplace natively inside the game.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
The CMU Swartz Center's Project Olympus Awards Five Spark Grants
The Project Olympus Spark Grant Fund helps Carnegie Mellon University founders kick-start their startup ideas. This Spring, five grants of up to $3K each were awarded to the following startups: Basilisk Robotics, PianoCam, Wok On, Perflection AI and SpoilSafe.
Spark Grants are funded by charitable gifts from alumni and other community donors. The next round of Spark Grant funding will take place in the Fall of 2025.
Friday, May 16, 2025
James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows and Innovation Scholars Participate in CMU's 2025 Commencement
During Carnegie Mellon University's 2025 Commencement Weekend, which took place May 9-11, the CMU Swartz Center celebrated several James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows and Innovation Scholars who participated in the graduation ceremony, even at CMU Qatar's campus.
Each of these students have been a significant part of the Swartz Center family as they embarked on their entrepreneurial careers, won startup competitions, participated in entrepreneurship club activities, attended the annual Entrepreneurship Trek to Silicon Valley, and participated in many other programs to help them on their startup journeys. Here is a snapshot of some of the graduates.
Above photos (in order from left):
Ruben Antonio Quesada (Swartz Fellow), Tepper School of Business, Co-founder and CEO, Sabana
Sapna Rohra (Swartz Fellow), Master's of Integrated Innovation for Products and Services (MIIPS)
Christina Yang (Swartz Fellow), Master of Design, Design for Interactions
Mukhammadjon Gafurov (Innovation Scholar), CMU Qatar (Business Administration, Finance)
Below photos (in order from left):
Emily Torrealba (Swartz Fellow) Tepper School of Business ('25 STEM)
Advika Jayanti (Innovation Scholar), School of Computer Science
Qinyuan (Olivia) Wu (Swartz Fellow), Information Networking Institute (INI), recipient of this year's INI Leadership AwardBelow photos (in order from left):
Kaitlyn Chow (Innovation Scholar), Tepper School of Business, founder of BAM!
Congratulations Swartz Fellows and Innovation Scholars!
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Ivy+ CMU Swartz in the City Series Event Highlights Two CMU Alumni Swartz Center Founders
Two CMU Tepper School of Business alumni founders, also current and past winners of the Swartz Center's McGinnis Venture Competition, were featured speakers at the 'Swartz in the City' series event held at Pittsburgh's Allegheny HYP Club on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Kaitlyn Chow, founder of BAM! and Chibuike Dumebi-Kachikwu, CEO and founder of Thursday Thrift, shared their exciting journeys with their startups and the latest technology they are using with the Penn and other Ivy+ alumni who were in attendance.
BAM! is the home of self-heating containers that provide hot meals on the go, and Thursday Thrift is providing customers with the first digital thrifting experience powered by AI.
The event series is led by Dave Mawhinney, Founding Executive Director at the CMU Swartz Center and Donald Bonk, CMU alumnus and President of the Penn Club of Western PA.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
UCLA Receives ADEA Grant to Use Pearl’s AI Platform to Improve Radiologic Education and Clinical Performance for High-Quality, Consistent Patient Care
Pearl, the global leader in dental AI solutions, today announced that the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Dentistry has been awarded a grant from the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) to integrate Pearl Calibrate, the first AI-powered clinical calibration tool, into its educational and research programs. The grant-powered collaboration will enable faculty, residents, and students to incorporate advanced AI technology into their curriculum and in preparation for clinical work. Insights garnered from the implementation are expected later this year.
Friday, May 9, 2025
Swartz Center Founding Executive Director Dave Mawhinney Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the PVCA
CMU Swartz Center Founding Executive Director Dave Mawhinney was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association (PVCA) last Thursday, May 8, 2025. Several friends, colleagues and Dave's family were in attendance, including his wife Kristan and their three sons Sean, Michael and Ben.
After special remarks were given by long time friend and colleague Sean Ammirati, Dave received a special tribute from each of his sons as they took the stage together to share early family memories, a bit of humor and reflections on his unwavering commitment and passion for the Entrepreneurship ecosystem both in Pittsburgh and at Carnegie Mellon University. Dave's tireless and dedicated mentorship to countless students and alumni over the years was also highlighted and celebrated among the many friends who attended in his honor, including CMU Swartz Center staff, Swartz Fellow and Innovation Scholar students and many more from CMU and the community.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Trainwell Launches Free Tier Workout Plans
Trainwell co-founder Matt Spettel has announced that Trainwell is now offering completely free trainer-curated workout plans for its users, with the accountability of a team of fellow users to back you up. With trainwell teams, users can build a team consisting of family and friends that can work together to hit consistency and desired goals.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Tepper School of Business MBA Ruben Antonio Quesada Named to Poets & Quants Best and Brightest Class of 2025
Ruben Antonio Quesada, Tepper MBA and 2023-25 James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow, has had an incredible journey from architect to startup founder. As CEO and Co-Founder of Sabana, an AI-driven data management platform designed to simplify how architects and engineers manage, document and collaborate on product selections and construction specifications, Ruben embodies the passion, grit and drive that propels entrepreneurs forward and is a key leader in the Tepper School's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Aurora Innovation Deploys First Driverless Semi-truck on Texas Roads
Strip District-headquartered autonomous vehicle company Aurora Innovation Inc. announced that it has successfully deployed a completely driverless semi-truck in Texas, making it the first company to ever operate a self-driving heavy duty truck on public roads.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Lovelace AI Secures Seed Funding
Lovelace AI, the stealth AI startup founded by Andrew Moore, former dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and former Google Cloud AI General Manager, announced it has closed a seed round backed by RRE Ventures. Financial terms of the funding round were not disclosed.
"Lovelace AI is not just building another AI company, it's solving one of the most fundamental bottlenecks in modern computing, the ability to synthesize data across environments at operational speed," RRE COO Will Porteous said in a prepared statement.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Near Earth Autonomy's Barry Rabkin Named to CMU's 2025 Tartans on the Rise
Tepper School of Business alumnus Barry Rabkin (MBA '14), Director of Marketing at Near Earth Autonomy, is a recipient of CMU's 2025 class of Tartans on the Rise. Rabkin is shaping the future of aviation through “flight beyond sight.” His strategic leadership is driving Near Earth’s revolutionary autonomous aircraft technology, forming key partnerships with the U.S. Department of Defense and leading aircraft manufacturers.
Friday, May 2, 2025
The CMU Swartz Center Hosts the AI Venture Studio AI//VS 2025 Demo Day
Hundreds attended the highly successful AI Venture Studio (AI//VS) 2025 Demo Day event held at the Tepper School of Business and CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. The event kicked off with the Open Coffee: AI Edition event and 1:1 investor meetings, followed by the live Demo Day and ending with faculty and alumni Demos/Research Breakthroughs.
Created in 2024 by Adam Paulisick, CEO of SkillBuilder.io, Professor of Entrepreneurship at CMU's Tepper School of Business and Sean Ammirati, Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship at CMU's Tepper School of Business and co-founder and former Director of the CMU Corporate Startup Lab, AI//VS has adopted proven methods with a modern view to not only build AI solutions or be assisted by AI but to "recruit" AI to teams early and often to act as a founding member.
The AI//VS event gave twenty four companies an opportunity to pitch and network with 25+ investors after the Open Coffee: AI Edition event, where participants were able to meet leading founders, researchers and teams building with AI, and over thirty investors from across the country in town for CMU AI Venture Studio Investor Day. Investors held drop in meetings for any founders ready to raise.
See the 2025 AI//VS companies here.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Gather AI Among CB Insights Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Startups of 2025
CB Insights has launched the 9th annual AI 100—a ranking of the world's top emerging AI companies. From observability to infrastructure security to vertical AI agents, this year's winners are shaping the future of intelligent systems across industries. Gather AI, co-founded by CMU alumni Sankalp Arora, Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, made the list.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Founded Companies Make Pittsburgh Startups to Watch in 2025 List
Three Carnegie Mellon University startups, SkildAI, UltronAI and Netail, have been included in Pittsburgh's Startups to Watch in 2025 list.
SkildAI, headquartered in Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood and backed by a significant amount of venture capital, is working to build artificial general intelligence for robots. SkildAI was founded in 2023 by CMU professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta. UltronAI, founded in 2022 by Carnegie Mellon University Professor Marios Savvides, is developing computer vision software for retailers. Its software is capable of recognizing and matching items from images, giving retailers a wide variety of possible uses, including self checkout monitoring and inventory management. Netail, Inc., first incubated as part of renowned computer scientist Andrew Ng’s LandingAI in 2021 and launched as its own company in 2022 by CEO Mark Chrystal and CTO Barney Govan, provides retailers with an artificial intelligence-powered analytics tool called Profitmind that is capable of identifying and quantifying opportunities to adjust pricing and inventory to meet consumer demand.
The annual Startups to Watch event is on Wednesday, May 7 at Workscape on the South Side.
Friday, April 25, 2025
The Corporate Startup Lab Hosts 2025 Spring Forum
The Corporate Startup Lab, a Swartz Center-Tepper Initiative, held its Spring CSL Forum at the Swartz Center and Tepper School of Business on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. The event, titled AgentAI: Reimagining Work, provided over 250 attendees a closer look at agent-based AI focusing on the importance of understanding AI agents and its limitations and how executives, entrepreneurs and investors are using it today. In partnership with Deloitte Consulting LLP, the high-impact event explored the transformative role of AI agents across industries.
The half day event included a packed agenda with several expert-led discussions and networking with leaders from Industry, Venture and Academia, aimed at providing valuable insights into how Agentic AI is reshaping business strategy, productivity, and innovation.
The event wrapped up with three breakout sessions followed by a networking reception and Startup Expo featuring seven Agentic AI-based CMU startups.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
HEBI Robotics Recently Inked a Contract with NASA's Ames Research Center
HEBI Robotics will work with NASA's Ames Research Center to "advance autonomous systems and digital framework that will be utilized to construct and maintain adaptable structures in space, including modular habitats, satellites and telescopes," according to a press release.
HEBI was founded in 2014 as a spin-off of Carnegie Mellon University's Biorobotics lab.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Near Earth Autonomy Secures $790K Contract to Deliver Miniaturized Autonomous Flight Systems
Maryland-based company SURVICE Engineering has awarded CMU Robotics Institute spinoff Near Earth Autonomy a $790K contract to deliver a miniaturized autonomy system, Firefly.
Near Earth's system is integrated into a preexisting autonomous drone system, providing the drone with increased environmental perception and flight pathing, with capabilities of detecting obstacles and identifying landing zones.
Friday, April 18, 2025
The Swartz Center Selects Newest Cohort of Undergraduate Innovation Scholars
The CMU Swartz Center has chosen its next cohort of undergraduate Innovation Scholars. The 2025-27 cohort, a mix of twelve entrepreneurially minded students from several schools across campus, was chosen after a rigorous application process which included over 75 undergraduate student applicants. The students hail from the Tepper School of Business, School of Computer Science, Dietrich College, Mellon College of Science, Human Computer Interaction Institute and the College of Engineering.
The students in the cohort are (in order of the above photo):
- Deepti Aggarwal, MCS/Computational Finance
- Naman Chordia, CIT/Mechanical Engineering
- Carys Doyle, CIT/Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Jiya Gupta, SCS/Tepper School
- Anika Halappanavar, Tepper School/HCI
- Thomas Kanz, SCS
- Arianna Martinelli, Dietrich/Information Systems
- William Montague, SCS/AI
- Hamza Pereira, SCS
- Danely Rodriguez, Tepper School
- Jack Shah, CIT/Mechanical Engineering
- Akeil Smith, Tepper School
The new cohort will be introduced at the final Spring semester Proseminar in Entrepreneurial Leadership event on Friday, April 18, where they will meet and network over lunch with current and past Innovation Scholars. The student cohort will officially start programming in the Fall, when they will also join the newest cohort of graduate James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Serial Entrepreneur Tom Klaff Returns to CMU and Visits the Swartz Center
Carnegie Mellon MSIA '93 alumnus and serial entrepreneur Tom Klaff returned to his alma mater on Monday, April 14, 2025 to visit various departments on campus. While there, the CEO of Revolution Cooking—home of the Revolution Toaster—and co-founder of many other companies stopped by the Swartz Center to have lunch with the current cohort of graduate James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows and undergraduate Innovation Scholars.
During his talk, Klaff shared his journey from being an MSIA student to founding multiple companies, lessons he's learned from those experiences, and building a close relationship with the late entrepreneur and venture capatalist Don Jones. Klaff encouraged the students to take advantage of their time at CMU and to go ahead and start their companies, while also sharing advice on navigating the current entrepreneurship landscape.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Honeycomb Credit Acquires IFund Women (IFW)
Honeycomb Credit has recently acquired IFund Women (IFW) with a vision to build the most comprehensive small business funding platform in the country. By combining Honeycomb’s community-driven investment model with IFW’s expertise in crowdfunding, grants and coaching, the merger will help to unlock capital, resources and connections for entrepreneurs at every stage of growth—from idea to expansion to long-term success.
Honeycomb Credit is co-founded by George Cook, CEO and CMU alumnus and COO Christian Bilger.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Gecko Robotics Partners with L3Harris to Create Virtual Aircraft Inspection Technology
Gecko Robotics announced that it is collaborating with defense tech giant L3Harris Technologies Inc. to develop a virtual environment capable of diagnosing problems with aircrafts. According to a release from Gecko, the technology is capable of capturing 10,000 images of an aircraft, which are then used to create a 3-D model digital twin of it.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
CMU Spinout Panopto Appoints New CEO
Panopto, a Pittsburgh-based software company that provides a video management platform and AI tools, has named a new top executive. According to a release from the Carnegie Mellon University spinout, Stephen Laster has been tapped to serve as its next CEO.
Friday, April 11, 2025
Thirty CMU Student Founders Receive $1K from the Bruce S. Gebhardt Sandbox Fund
The CMU Swartz Center is excited to announce the thirty CMU student founders that have been selected to receive $1K through the Bruce S. Gebhardt Sandbox Fund for the Spring 2025 cycle. The founders will use the funding to support their early-stage startups.
Congratulations to the student founders!
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Robb Myer Accepts New Role as Assistant Director at Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Grove City College
Robb Myer has been deeply involved in the Pittsburgh Startup Ecosystem since graduating from CMU's Tepper School of Business in 2006. He served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) with the Swartz Center from 2016 through 2020. While there, he helped relaunch the alumni-focused VentureBridge Accelerator in Silicon Valley, raising a $1.5 M investment fund for the Accelerator. He continues to be committed to the CMU community as an advisor to 99 Tartans and EIR emeritus with the Swartz Center.
The co-founder of NoWait, which raised $22.5M in Venture Capital funding and was acquired by Yelp in 2017, is now focused on his new role as teaching professor and Assistant Director at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Grove City College, which he recently accepted. Robb is active in the Redemptive Pittsburgh movement, which seeks to build a local community for entrepreneurs who seek to use their ventures to promote the common good locally and globally.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
CMU Alumni Spotlight: Former ActivLearning CEO Justin Weinberg
Justin Weinberg, Ph.D., CMU Chemical Engineering alumnus, was recently featured in an article published by CMU's Chemical Engineering school, where he discussed his experience as a Ph.D. student and how it has proven applicable to being a startup CEO. Weinberg co-founded Aktiv Learning, a company that bought interactive STEM education to mobile devices and was acquired by Top Hat, market leader in student engagement solutions, in 2022.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
The Swartz Center Hosts Final Funders & Founders Talk in the 'Meet the Parents' Series
David Motley, General Partner at Black Tech Nation Ventures and his son Carrington Motley, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business, were the guest speakers at the last of the three Founders & Funders Series 'Meet the Parents' fireside chats hosted at the Swartz Center on April 4, 2025. The father and son duo shared their expertise with the CMU entrepreneurship community at the event, which was organized by Meredith Grelli, Director of Project Olympus, Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurship Initiatives at the School of Computer Science, and EIR at the Swartz Center.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Draper Associates Invests $1M in Pittsburgh's Mito Robotics to Automate Wet Labs
Draper Associates has invested $1M in Mito Robotics, a local startup that combines life sciences and artificial intelligence. CMU Biomedical Engineering PhD candidate and researcher Bingda Li's work with stem cells requires him to culture a lot of cells, a process that requires incredibly specific timing, which inspired him to co-found Mito with Xinyu Wang to help automate wet labs.Friday, April 4, 2025
Shelfmark Selected as a Finalist In TitletownTech Startup Draft
Shelfmark, the automated visual inspection platform for manufactured products founded by Tepper School of Business alumnus Pat O'Donnell, has been selected as a finalist in the TitletownTech Startup Draft. The event is a first-of-its-kind, connecting early-stage startups with investors, operators and corporate partners in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Pat is one of seven finalists out of 1,000 applicants in 50 states.Voting is open now to help Shelfmark become the Fan Favorite.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
ToyzElectronics Founder Damola Idowu Accepted Into JumpStart, Inc. Trailblazer Software Accelerator
Dah-Varsity AI, powered by Toyz Electronics, Inc. and founded by Damola Idowu, is a gamified platform where students build real-world skills and connect with employers through immersive challenges. Think Minecraft meets Indeed—but with real outcomes. Damola is one of ten founders in the JumpStart, Inc. Trailblazer Software Accelerator and will be pitching at the Startup Showcase on April 16, 2025.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
CMU's Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Association Holds 2025 CMU Venture Challenge Demo Day
Last Friday, the CMU Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Association (UEA) held its annual CMU Venture Challenge Demo Day at the CMU Swartz Center. For thirteen years, the CMU Venture Challenge has brought together brilliant students to launch their ideas, technologies and talent.
CMU VC offers student entrepreneurs a strong network of resources, including mentorship from serial entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, attorneys and business leaders. Finalists are invited to pitch their ventures to a panel of distinguished judges and VCs, hear from industry-leading speakers, network with fellow innovators and push their creations to the limit.
This year, high school students from the Penn Hills Entrepreneurship Charter School in Pittsburgh were also invited to attend the event.
This year's winners are:
- 1st Place: Avalon (CMU)
- 2nd Place: Code Four (MIT)
- 3rd Place: Thursday Thrift (CMU)
Team Avalon also won first place in the undergraduate category at the Swartz Center's Social Enterprise Prize Competition and Thursday Thrift won first place in the undergraduate category of the McGinnis Venture Competition, both events were held at the Swartz Center in March.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
CMU Alumnus Launches Kickstarter for Carb Portioning Kitchenware That Helps Diabetics Manage Blood Sugar Levels
Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Robert Paul is working to help diabetics manage their blood sugar levels effectively. After extensive market and user research, he founded Macro Spoons, the only kitchenware that scoops a precise serving of carbs, calories and protein designed for weight loss, building muscle and managing glucose.Robert has pre-launched his Kickstarter, which will go live on April 7, 2025.
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