News Archives 2025

Thursday, December 11, 2025
SoftBank, Nvidia Exploring Funding Round Valuing Skild AI at $14B

Friday, December 5, 2025
Congratulations to CMU Alumni Founders Selected for the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30: Trainwell Co-Founders Matt Spettel and Gabe Madonna (VentureBridge '19)

Friday, December 5, 2025
Congratulations to CMU Alumni Founders Selected for the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30: Refiberd Co-Founders Sarika Bajaj and Tushita Gupta (VentureBridge '20)

Friday, December 5, 2025
Congratulations to CMU Alumni Founders Selected for the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30: Mach9 Co-Founders Alexander Baikovitz, Zachary Sussman, Haowen Shi and Michael Mong
(VentureBridge '21)

Friday, December 5, 2025
Congratulations to CMU Alumni Founders Selected for the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30: Farm to Flame Founder Kwaku Jyamfi (James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow '20)

Thursday, December 4, 2025
The DashStrom Program Cuts Screen Time by Challenging Kids to Move

Thursday, November 20, 2025
OctaPulse Founder Paul Grech Awarded $10K as Ocean Exchange Collegiate Winner

Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Dynamics Unveils The Authority™: The World's First All-in-One E-Commerce Platform for Vaulted Collectibles 

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Announcing the 2025 Spark Grant Recipients!

Friday, November 14, 2025
Mine Vision Systems Announces $12.5M Series A to Accelerate Underground Mining Decision Platform

Thursday, October 30, 2025
Venture Capitalist Jim Swartz Joins President Jahanian for Fireside Chat on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Tuesday, October 28, 2025
DashStrom Wins Second Place and $75K at UpPrize Finals

Monday, October 27, 2025
Arda Wins Best New Product of the Year in Manufacturing Software at The Assembly Show

Thursday, October 16, 2025
Amazon Partners with Carnegie Mellon University for AI Research Hub

Friday, October 10, 2025
Seegrid Raises $25M in New Funding Round

Thursday, October 9, 2025
BlastPoint Secures $10.6M Growth Funding

Friday, October 3, 2025
ETC Faculty Member and Robotics Institute Ph.D. Vivian Shen Changing the Way Technology Feels

Friday, October 3, 2025
Gather AI Unveils Dual-use HQ for Warehouse Tech Innovation

Thursday, October 2, 2025
Astrobotic Partners with Honda to Explore Lunar Power Solutions

Friday, September 26, 2025
Recap From CMU's Startup Week!

Thursday, September 25, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Named a Top 20 U.S. University

Wednesday, September 24, 2025
CMU Alumni Company Signs Deal with Goodyear

Thursday, September 18, 2025
Clear Solar Joins Techstars Columbus Accelerator Program

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
CMU's Caspian Emerges From Stealth With $5.4M

Tuesday, September 16, 2025
CMU's Zico Kolter Gives Keynote at Recent AI Horizons Summit

Thursday, September 11, 2025
Candid Intelligence Lands $5.5M Seed Round Led by Quiet Capital

Thursday, September 11, 2025
BNY and Carnegie Mellon University Join Forces To Advance Research and Development in AI

Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Astrobotic Inks Potentially Historic Contract with Norwegian Spaceport

Wednesday, September 10, 2025
CMU Spinout SeaLion Energy Helping Pittsburgh to Become a Leader in Advanced Clean Energy Manufacturing

Friday, September 5, 2025
Joint Ai Secures $315K to Support Growing Demand for Orthopaedic Care

Thursday, September 4, 2025
Pittsburgh Startup Perforated AI Thinks the AI Field is Due for an Update

Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Conduit Raises $375K To Tackle Worker Scheduling Issues

Friday, August 29, 2025
Five Startups Selected for Robotics Factory Accelerate Program’s 2025 Cohort

Friday, August 22, 2025
Gather AI Inks Partnership to Distribute Warehouse Inventory Drones Across 20 U.S. Locations

Friday, August 15, 2025
Niche Launches Direct Admissions for Fall 2026 With Two Local Schools Participating

Friday, August 15, 2025
Instinct Robotics Leases Space at Mill 19, Bringing AI-driven Manufacturing Robots to Pittsburgh Tech Hub

Friday, August 15, 2025
Duolingo Acquires Rhythm Game Developer to Improve Music Platform

Thursday, August 7, 2025
Launching Soon! CMU Startup Locammend

Thursday, August 7, 2025
Wearable Robotics Firm Inks Distribution Deal for European Sales

Friday, August 1, 2025
Startup Shelfmark Secures Investment from Venture Capital Firm backed by Microsoft, Green Bay Packers

Thursday, July 31, 2025
Skild AI Unveils Skild Brain, a General-purpose AI for Robots

Wdnesday, July 30, 2025
Aurora's Driverless Trucks Now Operate at Night, Marking Unexpected Early Milestone

Friday, July 25, 2025
CMU Startups Selected as UpPrize 2025 Semi-Finalists

Thursday, July 24, 2025
Robotics Startup Dash Bio Sprints to New Financing

Friday, July 18, 2025
Meta to Fund Promising Early-Stage CMU Startups

Thursday, July 17, 2025
Pittsburgh Tech Leaders Showcase AI Prowess Ahead Energy and Innovation Summit

Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Abridge Partners with Allegheny Health Network to Bring AI Innovation

Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Bedrock Robotics Raises $80M in Funding for Autonomous Construction Technology 

Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Gecko Robotics Partners with U.S. Steel to Explore AI-driven Infrastructure Analysis

Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Codeflash Named a Cool Vendor in 2025 Gartner's Cool Vendors in Software Quality and Testing

Friday, July 11, 2025
Meredith Grelli Appointed Interim Director of the CMU Swartz Center 

Friday, July 11, 2025
VentureBridge '25 Cohort Spotlight: Founder: Neha Suresh, CEO & Co-Founder of April

Thursday, July 10, 2025
Genesis AI Launches with $105M Seed Funding to Build AI Models for Robots

Tuesday, July 8, 2025
WVU, Pitt, and CMU Lead Regional Consortium Selected as NSF Semifinalist forTransformative Energy Initiative

Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Iris Lunar Dream Capsule Will Head to Moon on Next Astrobotic Lander

Friday, June 27, 2025
VentureBridge '25 Cohort Spotlight: Meet Spencer Matonis, CEO & Co-Founder of Edulis Therapeutics, "The next big thing in GI care!"

Friday, June 27, 2025
VentureBridge '25 Cohort Spotlight: Meet Paul L. Grech, CEO & Co-Founder of OctaPulse, "TSA for your Luggage, but for Fish!" 

Thursday, June 26, 2025
Abridge AI Raises $300M, Doubles Valuation to $5.3B

Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Software Startup InceptEV Acquired by Motive 

Tuesday, June 24, 2025
CMU's Tepper School of Business Spotlights Alumni From the Class of 2025: Featuring an Innovation Scholar and James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow

Friday, June 20, 2025
Introducing the VentureBridge '25 Startups!

Friday, June 20, 2025
VentureBridge '25 Cohort Spotlight: Derek Gregg, Kaavio

Thursday, June 19, 2025
Y Combinator Announces Launch of CMU Alumni Founded Boost Robotics

Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Benetech Named to Forbes Accessibility 100 List

Friday, June 13, 2025
The Birth of the University as Innovation Incubator: Carnegie Mellon Received One of the First University Incubators

Friday, June 13, 2025
Gecko Robotics Reaches Unicorn Status Doubling Valuation to Over $1B

Thursday, June 12, 2025
Tepper School of Business Alumni Receive 2025 Tepper Alumni Awards

Thursday, June 5, 2025
Beyond Reach Labs Awarded $50K at Keystone Space Collaborative Innovation Challenge

Thursday, May 29, 2025
Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute taps RE2 Robotics founder as New CEO

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
CMU Spinout Anactisis Awarded $20K at the Spring 2025 EPIC Pitch Competition

Thursday, May 22, 2025
Artian AI Co-Founder and CEO Prashant Reddy Announces $8M Fund Raise

Thursday, May 22, 2025
2025 Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholar Saisri Akondi Harnessed CMU's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem to Revolutionize Care for Diabetics

Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Codeflash Founder Saurabh Misra Shares Why AI-Powered Code Optimization Is Now Essential

Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Carnegie Mellon, Mid-Atlantic Hub Host First NSF I-Corps Cohort for AI, Robotics

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

Friday, May 9, 2025
Swartz Center Founding Executive Director Dave Mawhinney Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the PVCA

Thursday, May 8, 2025
Tepper School of Business MBA Ruben Antonio Quesada Named to Poets & Quants Best and Brightest Class of 2025

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Aurora Innovation Deploys First Driverless Semi-truck on Texas Roads

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Lovelace AI Secures Seed Funding

Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Near Earth Autonomy's Barry Rabkin Named to CMU's 2025 Tartans on the Rise

Thursday, May 1, 2025
Gather AI Among CB Insights Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Startups of 2025

Thursday, May 1, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Founded Companies Make Pittsburgh Startups to Watch in 2025 List

Thursday, April 24, 2025
HEBI Robotics Recently Inked a Contract with NASA's Ames Research Center

Thursday, April 24, 2025
Near Earth Autonomy Secures $790K Contract to Deliver Miniaturized Autonomous Flight Systems

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Honeycomb Credit Acquires IFund Women (IFW)

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Gecko Robotics Partners with L3Harris to Create Virtual Aircraft Inspection Technology

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
CMU Spinout Panopto Appoints New CEO

Thursday, April 10, 2025
Robb Myer Accepts New Role as Assistant Director at Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Grove City College

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
CMU Alumni Spotlight: Former ActivLearning CEO Justin Weinberg

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
The Swartz Center Hosts Final Funders & Founders Talk in the 'Meet the Parents' Series

Friday, April 4, 2025
Draper Associates Invests $1M in Pittsburgh's Mito Robotics to Automate Wet Labs

Friday, April 4, 2025
Shelfmark Selected as a Finalist In TitletownTech Startup Draft

Friday, March 28, 2025
The Swartz Center Hosts CMU Energy Week Reception

Thursday, March 27, 2025
New Scott Institute Award Gives Entrepreneurship a Boost

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Refiberd Named U.S. Winner of eBay x Council of Fashion Designers of America

Monday, March 24, 2025
Nimble Among Fast Company's Ten Most Innovative Logistics Companies of 2025

Friday, March 21, 2025
Celebrating the 2025 McGinnis Venture and Social Enterprise Prize Competition!

Thursday, March 20, 2025
CMU Spinoff Pearl Street Acquired by Enverus

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
CMU Founder of DashStrom Selected for Innovation Works' AlphaLab Accelerator

Friday, March 14, 2025
Inc. Names Alison Alvarez to Its 2025 Female Founders 500 List

Thursday, March 13, 2025
Tartans on the Rise Celebrates Several Carnegie Mellon University Founders

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
A Closer Look: Two CMU Startups Accepted Into Accelerators: BAM! Founder Kaitlyn Chow Accepted Into AlphaLab's First Combined Cohort

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Hardly Accepted Into Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator and AlphaLab's First Combined Cohort

Friday, March 7, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship Founding Executive Director Dave Mawhinney Inducted Into Dealmakers Pittsburgh Hall of Fame

Thursday, March 6, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University Alumnus Alan Frank Inducted Into Pittsburgh Basketball Club Hall of Fame

Thursday, March 6, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University Undergraduate Team Wins Second Place at VCIC

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
2024 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: Sabana, Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)

Monday, March 3, 2025
Fluid Reality a Finalist for SXSW Pitch

Friday, February 28, 2025
Gecko Robotics Announces $100M Deal with NAES

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
SpotDraft Secures $54M To Lead AI Contract Lifecycle Management

Thursday, February 20, 2025
Abridge Announces $250M Series D Investment

Thursday, February 20, 2025
CMU Startup Sabana Invited to Participate in the Rice Business Plan Competition

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Team Takes First Place at Pittsburgh Startup Weekend

Thursday, February 13, 2025
Gather AI Announced a Partnership to Use American Made Drones Made by California-based ModalAI

Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Names Included in The Pittsburgh Business Times' 2025 Pittsburgh Power 100

Thursday, February 6, 2025
Ecotone Renewables Co-Founders Earn Feature in Forbes 30 Under 30

Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Astrobotic Secures New Lunar Payload