News Archives 2026

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Swartz Center Program Manager Steven Guo Receives Pittsburgh 30 Under 30 Award

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Aimee Langevin Transforms Personal Acne Struggles into Smart Skincare Solutions

Friday, April 10, 2026
Swartz Center Powers National AI Showcase During NFL Draft Week

Friday, April 10, 2026
CMU's Revora Health and SpoilSafe Named 2026 Imagine Cup World Finalists

Wednesday, April 8, 2026
OpenFX Lands $94M Amid Cross-Border Stablecoin Push

Friday, April 3, 2026
NVIDIA Co-founder Jensen Huang Among 2026 CMU Honorary Degree Recipients

Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Founders Capital Spotlights Portfolio Company Beyond Reach Labs

Friday, March 27, 2026
Zipline Snaps Up Another $200M to Fuel Its Drone Delivery Expansion

Thursday, March 26, 2026
McGinnis Venture Competition Announces 2026 Winners, Launches New Morgenthaler Prize

Thursday, March 26, 2026
CMU Founders Make CMU's Tartans on the Rise 2026

Friday, March 20, 2026
The CMU Swartz Center Holds It's Biggest McGinnis Venture Competition and Social Enterprise Prize at CMU

Friday, March 20, 2026
AI built to think like scientists wins $150k at CMU’s biggest McGinnis competition yet

Wednesday, March 18, 2026
RoboForce Raises $52M to Scale Physical AI Robo-Labor

Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Gecko Robotics Inks U.S. Navy Contract with $71M Ceiling

Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Atlys Raises $36M in Series C Funding

Monday, March 16, 2026
Agilow Founder Shiv Panjwani Selected to Poets & Quants' 2025 Most Disruptive MBA Startups List

Friday, March 13, 2026
The CMU Swartz Center Joins in Launching Third Coast Foundry Innovation Hub in San Francisco

Thursday, March 12, 2026
CMU Startups Among Pittsburgh Business Times Ten Promising Startups to Watch in 2026

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
CMU VentureBridge '25 Fort Strength Training Wearable Featured in Wired

Thursday, March 5, 2026
HEBI Robotics Awarded $850K SBIR Contract from NASA to Develop Robots that Withstands the Vacuum of Space

Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Astrobotic Inks Deal to Design Wheel for Lunar Habitation System

Friday, February 27, 2026
McGinnis Venture Competition Unveils $375,000 in Prizes, Backed by David and Lindsay Morgenthaler Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fund and AWS

Thursday, February 26, 2026
AI in Action: Meet the 2026 Imagine Cup Semifinalists

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
CMU Health Startups That Could Improve Patient Care

Friday, February 20, 2026
The CMU Swartz Center Strengthened CMU’s Silicon Valley Connections at Lab to Market Investor Summit

Thursday, February 19, 2026
CMU Spinoff Efficient Computer Raises $60M Series A Round

Thursday, February 19, 2026
Trainwell Partners with Peloton Interactive

Friday, February 13, 2026
Gather AI Raises $40M Series B to Scale Physical Intelligence Platform for Global Supply Chain

Thursday, February 12, 2026
CMU Swartz Center's Steven Guo Selected to the 2026 Class of the Pittsburgh 30 Under 30

Thursday, February 12, 2026
CMU Startup Lunon Announces Pre-Seed Round

Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Carnegie Mellon MBA Team Wins First Place and $7K at The Bringham Young University Faith & Belief at Work Case Competition

Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Several Carnegie Mellon Startups Selected to Join AlphaLab 2026 Cohort

Friday, February 6, 2026
PDS Health Selects Pearl as Enterprise AI Partner to Support Scaled Clinical Integration

Thursday, January 29, 2026
Pittsburgh Startups Raise $1.48B in VC in 2025 as AI Deals Dominate the Market

Thursday, January 22, 2026
HeadStrait Labs Gets $350K Investment from Richard King Mellon Foundation

Friday, January 16, 2026
Skild AI Raises $1.4B, Hits Valuation Over $14B

Thursday, January 15, 2026
CMU Spinout NovoLINC Raises $10.2M Seed to Cool Overheating Data Centers

Thursday, January 15, 2026
JWX Acquires Aug X Labs, Giving Publishers a Gen AI Tool to Transform Existing Content Into Multi-Platform Experiences

Thursday, January 15, 2026
Pittsburgh's Wood Wide AI Featured in Forbes Magazine: From Text To Tables: Why Structured Data Is AI’s Next $600B Frontier

Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Pittsburgh Companies Take to CES to Learn from Innovators and Customers

Friday, January 9, 2026
Akeil Smith (TPR '25), Innovation Scholar, Founder of Basics Feceives The 2025 Most Disruptive Undergraduate Startup Award from Poets & Quants