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Signer Directory

Tartan Entrepreneur’s Pledge signers represent a wide variety of industries — from agriculture to social media monitoring to robotics and AI-boosted design — but they share a common belief in the power of entrepreneurship and a common goal of supporting the Tartans who follow their founding footsteps in the future.

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Ronald Bianchini

(ENG 1986, 1989)

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Qianwen Chen

(SCS 2012)

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EchoHer is dedicated to empowering women and nonbinary funders and founders by providing the resources, connections and support needed to succeed. We aim to increase women's representation and success in entrepreneurship.

Tejas Chopra

(ENG 2011)

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EnsolAI provides AI-powered tools and services to help professionals build their personal brands and thought leadership with a focus on supporting employment-based U.S. visa applicants (EB1A, O1, EB2-NIW).

Zachary Ciccone

(HNZ 2014)

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GoodFutures is a venture studio that combines research, capital and talent to address humanity's workforce crisis.

Ketaki Desai

(HNZ 2013)

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DashStrom helps children build emotional resilience through active play, with 12,000 kids having thrived with it.

Manuel Diaz-Granados

(ENG 2016)

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Lysto is a revenue intelligence platform for startups that sets up in minutes and drives growth through automatic insights, intelligent answers and zero busy work.


"This pledge embodies what Andrew Carnegie believed — that our hearts must be in the work, and that those who succeed have an obligation to create ladders for others to climb."

Zachary Ciccone (HNZ 2014)

Pariskshit Dutt

(ENG 2018)

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Fittest is a hardware-free heart rate tracking platform that integrates with wearables to boost member engagement, drive accountability and increase retention through real-time tracking, gamification and performance insights.

Meredith Grelli

(TPR 2010)

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Meredith Meyer Grelli founded, led and sold two craft beverage companies, Wigle Whiskey and Threadbare Cider & Mead. Meredith now serves as interim executive director of CMU's Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship.

Phaneendra Gullapalli

(CMU 2009)

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AvatarX Health focuses on digital connected care, giving individuals health independence through real-time monitoring and AI insights. Their platform streamlines healthcare access and cuts costs by connecting with patients through five AI-powered components with predictive analytics.

Sankalp Gunturi

(ENG 2023)

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Pinkfish is an AI orchestration platform that enables enterprises to automate at scale by creating AI workflows and agents that understand systems and data. This self-service platform initially focuses on automating back-office operations, allowing teams to delegate repetitive tasks to scalable AI agents.

Ehud Halberstam

(ENG 2006, 2007)

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Chordio is an AI-powered design review platform that verifies designs against standards and helps product teams amplify their design systems to build better products faster.

Chelsie Hall

(CMU 2018)

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ViralMoment is an AI-powered B2B SaaS social intelligence platform that uses machine learning to analyze social video content. They provide insights into audience behavior and purchasing decisions and help clients with content strategy and social measurement.


"I'm thrilled to sign the Tartan Entrepreneurial Pledge, and to empower the future builders who will continue to push the limits of what is possible in our world."

Chelsie Hall (CMU 2018)

Isha Hans

(CFA 2022)

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Butterfly is data that self-destructs, "Mission Impossible" style. Collect what you need, use it and then let it vanish automatically to reduce security risks and prove to customers that you truly value their privacy.

Di Hu

(SCS 2023)

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moss is an AI-powered, automated farm digitalization company for fast and accurate inventory management.

Anoop Jaishankar

(ENG 2009)

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Pervasiv AI provides generative AI security for multi-cloud environments, enabling the scanning, remediation, building and deployment of applications.

Himanshu Khurana

(ENG 2006)

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Neeva offers Self-Driving QA for product quality on autopilot. Its agents discover apps, generate natural-language tests, run them at scale and update automatically as the UI evolves.

Wonkyu Lee

(DC 2010)

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ARGOS Identity offers a global, AI-powered platform for online identity verification, simplifying complex eKYC, AML and risk management processes. It automates onboarding, utilizes top OCR and AI for face recognition and ensures compliance with regulations.

Yuhan Long

(SCS 2015)

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Infermove is building physical AI: Autonomous systems that move, perceive and act with resilience in real-world environments. Infermove bridges the gap between lab innovation and real-world deployment.


"Carnegie Mellon shattered the glass ceiling for me and opened a world of possibilities. I’m excited to build that future with fellow Tartans."

Sankalp Gunturi (ENG 2023)

Bishal Madhab

(ENG 2012)

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ergLocale is a smart optimization platform for EV fleet, charging infrastructure and solar energy.

Tom Matta

(ENG 2007; TPR 2007)

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Forecastr is an out-of-the-box finance function for your business. We help you make better decisions and succeed in fundraising.

Barry Rabkin

(TPR 2013)

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Near Earth Autonomy is creating a future where autonomous flight is commonplace and safe. Our work enables a range of uncrewed aircraft (i.e., sub-meter to full scale) to operate across multiple applications.

Muneeb Rasool

(CMU 2022)

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Tensor Machines aims to build a global hardware security infrastructure where authenticity is self-evident, recognizing that the world runs on hardware, and hardware runs on trust that cannot be assumed.

Sriram Subramanian

(ENG 2004)

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LINK is a single-point integration solution for Application Service Providers. Let LINK handle your integration backlog so your engineers can focus on your core service roadmap.

Jeremy Toeman

(DC 1996)

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An all-in-one video studio that empowers anyone to create video at scale, no matter their skill set or experience.

Michael Vandi

(ENG 2023)

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Addy AI utilizes custom AI models to automate manual mortgage tasks, enabling faster loan closures and increased profits.

Quinn Zsido

(TPR 2019)

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Discover Your New York. An NYC concierge software. What you want to do at the place, price and time you want to do it.

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Ready to make the Pledge?

It’s a simple process. You will decide how much, when and where your support will be directed, and there is no minimum commitment to make the pledge. There are no tax ramifications associated with the pledge. Tax considerations arise when the pledge is fulfilled, and all gifts to CMU are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. As a pledge signer, you are encouraged to make an annual gift to the Swartz Center, to entrepreneurial activities in a college or school of your choice, or to any part of the university meaningful to you.