Project Olympus notable numbers*
638 Project Olympus Startup Projects
>> started by CMU Students, Staff, Faculty:
603 Indirect [IP owned by startup]
35 Direct [IP owned by CMU]
150 companies formed
>> from Project Olympus Startup Projects:
124 Indirect [IP owned by startup]
26 Direct [IP owned by CMU]
$390+ Million in follow-on funding
>> directly to Project Olympus Startup Projects:
$369 Million from Investments
$19.5 Million from non-dilutive Grants
$1.6 Million from Awards and Competitions won
62 accepted
>> into local and national accelerators
11 Acquisitions
>> See below
*since Project Olympus started in January 2007
Traansmission was acquired by ShipLync: April 2017.
FacioMetrics was acquired by Facebook: November 16, 2016.
Activaided was acquired by Elizur Corporation: September 15, 2016.
ConnectWith was acquired by Newton Consulting: May, 2016.
Safaba was acquired by Amazon: September 25, 2015.
Tunessence was acquired by Hal Leonard: May 1, 2015.
Lightside Labs was acquired by Turnitin: October 7, 2014.
LearnBop was acquired by K12: August 4, 2014.
CareerImp was acquired by PDN: July 17, 2012.
Black Locus was acquired by Home Depot: December 17, 2012.
ReCaptcha was acquired by Google: September 9, 2009.
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