Introduction to the Swartz Center
Learn what CMU has to offer regarding entrepreneurship and how to work out of the Swartz Center.

Swartz Center Programs
Find the ins and outs of the entrepreneurship ecosystem through various programs from the perspective of startups and students.

Undergraduate Perspective

• Customer Discovery Kickstarter: Ashleigh Riehl, ariehl@tepper.cmu.edu
• Innovation Scholars Program: Coleman Isner, cisner@andrew.cmu.edu
• McGinnis Venture Competition: Isaiah Rodgers, irodgers@andrew.cmu.edu
• PROBE Program: Shayan Gupta, shayan.gupta1999@gmail.com

Graduate Perspective

• Corporate Startup Lab: Abhishek Shah, abhishekshah@cmu.edu and Adhya Dagar, adagar@andrew.cmu.edu
• Customer Discovery Kickstarter: Adam Knapp, asknapp@andrew.cmu.edu
• Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition: Len Caric, lcaric@andrew.cmu.edu and Mac Trainor, mtrainor@tepper.cmu.edu
• Innovation Commercialization Fellows Program: Feifei Fu, feifeif@tepper.cmu.edu
• McGinnis Venture Competition: Saisri Akondi, sakondi@andrew.cmu.edu
• PROBE Program: Ipsita Prahara, iprahara@andrew.cmu.edu
• Swartz Fellows Program: Serena Dao, sdao@andrew.cmu.edu 
• VentureBridge  Program: Rob Miller, rob@eatbyme.com

CMU Clubs
Join others that think entrepreneurially like you with a CMU club.

Undergraduate Clubs

• CMU U.S. China Summit: Zipiao Wan, zwan@andrew.cmu.edu
• Product@CMU: Pranav Addepalli, pranavaddepalli@cmu.edu and Cathryn Lin, ylin4@andrew.cmu.edu
• Scottie Ventures: Pratyay Didwania, pdidwani@andrew.cmu.edu; Saaketh Chennaiahgari, Schennai@andrew.cmu.edu, Aditi Shimpi, ashimpi@andrew.cmu.edu
• Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Association (UEA): Roshni Surpur, rsurpur@andrew.cmu.edu

Graduate Clubs

• CMU U.S. China Summit: Tiger He, hhe2@andrew.cmu.edu
• Graduate Entrepreneurship Club (GEC): Nick Png, npng@tepper.cmu.edu

Fireside Chat with Ray Lane
Hear from Ray Lane, GreatPoint Ventures

Network + On Campus & Community Resources Booths
Connect with other founders and co-founders and explore what other entrepreneurial opportunities there are outside of CMU throughout Pittsburgh.

• 99 Tartans: Victor Zhang, vikzhang94@gmail.com
• Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC): Reed McManigle, reedm@andrew.cmu.edu
• CMU Libraries: Jimmy McKee, jmckee@andrew.cmu.edu
• CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship: Steven Guo, steven.c.guo@gmail.com
• Dorm Room Fund: Kunal Sharda, ksharda@cmu.edu
• Innovation Works, AlphaLab, AlphaLab Gear, AlphaLab Health: Candice Lutz, clutz@innovationworks.org and Cigdem Benam, cbenam@innovationworks.org
• LifeX: Kelly Collier, kcollier@lifexglobal.com
• Nucleate Pittsburgh: Michael Gee, mgee3@andrew.cmu.edu
• Project Olympus: Kit Needham, kit@andrew.cmu.edu
• Soma Capital: Vatsalya Verma, vatsalyv@andrew.cmu.edu

Introduction to the Swartz Center
Learn what CMU has to offer regarding entrepreneurship and how to work out of the Swartz Center.

Swartz Center Programs
Find the ins and outs of the entrepreneurship ecosystem through various programs from the perspective of startups and students.

Undergraduate Perspective

• Customer Discovery Kickstarter: Sean Wang, sjw2@andrew.cmu.edu
• Innovation Scholars Program: Miguel Brandao, mbrandao@andrew.cmu.edu & Coleman Isner, cisner@andrew.cmu.edu
• McGinnis Venture Competition: Miguel Brandao, mbrandao@andrew.cmu.edu & Kaitlyn Chow kachow@andrew.cmu.edu
• PROBE Program: Kaitlyn Chow kachow@andrew.cmu.edu

Graduate Perspective

• Corporate Startup Lab: Miles Bloomenkranz, mbloomen@tepper.cmu.edu
• Customer Discovery Kickstarter: Kyle Snyder, kylesnyd@andrew.cmu.edu 
• Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition: Len Caric, lcaric@andrew.cmu.edu & Gaurav Mehra, gmehra@andrew.cmu.edu
• Innovation Commercialization Fellows Program: Matt Polowitz, mpolowit@andrew.cmu.edu
• McGinnis Venture Competition: Jay Reddy, jreddy1@andrew.cmu.edu
• PROBE Program: Bingda Li, bingdal@andrew.cmu.edu
• Swartz Fellows Program: Ryan Lee, ryanlee@andrew.cmu.edu
• VentureBridge  Program: Rishabh Chatterje, rishabh@alopay.club

CMU Clubs
Join others that think entrepreneurially like you with a CMU club.

Undergraduate Clubs

• CMU U.S. China Summit: Tiger He, hhe2@andrew.cmu.edu
• Scottie Ventures: Krish Visht, kvisht@andrew.cmu.edu
• Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Association (UEA): Avika Bansal, avikab@andrew.cmu.edu

Graduate Clubs

• CMU U.S. China Summit: Tiger He, hhe2@andrew.cmu.edu
• Graduate Entrepreneurship Club (GEC): Ani Kapuria, anirudhk@tepper.cmu.edu

On Campus & Community Resources
Explore what other entrepreneurial opportunities there are outside of CMU throughout Pittsburgh.

• 99 Tartans: Eric Su, ecsu@tepper.cmu.edu & Maria Fernandez Melgar, mariajof@tepper.cmu.edu
• Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC): Reed McManigle, reedm@andrew.cmu.edu
• CMU IDeATe: Kelly Delaney, kellydel@andrew.cmu.edu
• CMU Libraries: Jimmy McKee, jmckee@andrew.cmu.edu
• CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship: Steven Guo, steven.c.guo@gmail.com
• Innovation Works, AlphaLab, AlphaLab Gear, AlphaLab Health: Jessi Mazzoni, jessi@alphalabgear.org
• Project Olympus: Kit Needham, kit@andrew.cmu.edu

Entrepreneurship 101
Interested in entrepreneurship but have little to no experience? Learn the vocabulary and how startups differ from small businesses.

• Steven Guo, steven.c.guo@gmail.com
• Andrew Douglas, awdougla@tepper.cmu.edu

Hear from our Entrepreneurs
Listen to the entrepreneurial journey from some of our startups, including:

• CoPilot: Matt Spettel, matt@mycopilot.com
• Fifth Season: Grant Vandenbussche, gvandenbussche54@gmail.com
• Shift Robotics: Xunjie Zhang, xunjie@shiftrobotics.io
• Wigle Whiskey: Meredith Grelli, meredith@wiglewhiskey.com

Pitch Your Idea + Network
Connect with other founders and co-founders.

Introduction to the Swartz Center
Learn what CMU has to offer regarding entrepreneurship and how to work out of the Swartz Center.

CMU Clubs
Join others that think entrepreneurially like you with a CMU club.

Undergraduate Clubs

• Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Association (UEA): Angela Sun, angelasu@andrew.cmu.edu
• CMU U.S. China Summit: Tiger He, hhe2@andrew.cmu.edu

Graduate Clubs

• Graduate Entrepreneurship Club (GEC): Rob Miller, ram2@tepper.cmu.edu
• CMU U.S. China Summit: Tiger He, hhe2@andrew.cmu.edu

Pitch Your Idea
Connect with other founders and co-founders.

Swartz Center Programs
Find the ins and outs of the entrepreneurship ecosystem through various programs from the perspective of startups and students.

Undergraduate Perspective

• Innovation Scholars Program: Dorcas Lin, dorcasl@andrew.cmu.edu 
• PROBE Program: Connor Colombo, cwcolomb@andrew.cmu.edu
• McGinnis Venture Competition: Snehita Sana, ssana@andrew.cmu.edu

Graduate Perspective

• Swartz Fellows Program: Alex Baikovitz, abaikovi@andrew.cmu.edu
• Innovation Fellows Program: Greg Houchins, ghouchin@andrew.cmu.edu
• NSF I-Corps Program: Shreya Agarwal, shreyaa@andrew.cmu.edu
• PROBE Program: David Ajoku, dajoku@andrew.cmu.edu
• McGinnis Venture Competition: Emily Ellis, ede@tepper.cmu.edu
• Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition: Len Caric, lcaric@andrew.cmu.edu
• Corporate Startup Lab: Piper Hayden, phayden@andrew.cmu.edu
• VentureBridge  Program: Matt Spettel, matt@deltatrainer.fit

On Campus & Community Resources
Explore what other entrepreneurial opportunities there are outside of CMU throughout Pittsburgh.

• Project Olympus: Kit Needham, kit@andrew.cmu.edu
• Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC): Reed McManigle, reedm@andrew.cmu.edu
• CMU IDeATe: Kelly Delaney, kellydel@andrew.cmu.edu
• CMU Tech Spark: Justin Harvilla, jharvill@andrew.cmu.edu
• Innovation Works, AlphaLab, AlphaLab Gear, AlphaLab Health: Jim Jen, jjen@alphalab.org,  and Megan Shaw, mshaw@innovationworks.org
• 99 Tartans: Peter Park, pspark@tepper.cmu.edu
• CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship: Drew Bermudez, drewtbermudez@gmail.com

Entrepreneurship 101

Interested in entrepreneurship but have little to no experience? Learn the vocabulary and how startups differ from small businesses.

Hear from our Entrepreneurs

Listen to the entrepreneurial journey from some of our startups, including:

• Wigle Whiskey: Meredith Grelli, meredith@wiglewhiskey.com
• Fifth Season: Emily Ellis, ede@tepper.cmu.edu
• CoPilot: Matt Spettel, matt@deltatrainer.fit
• Aurochs Brewing: Ryan Bove, rbove@aurochsbrewing.com
• NoRILLA: Nesra Yannier, nyannier@andrew.cmu.edu
• Shift Robotics: Xunjie Zhang, xunjie@shiftrobotics.io

Pitch Your Idea + Network
Connect with other founders and co-founders.

Introduction to the Swartz Center
Learn what CMU has to offer regarding entrepreneurship and how to work out of the Swartz Center.

Swartz Center Programs & CMU Clubs
Learn the ins and outs of the entrepreneurship ecosystem through various programs from the perspective of startups and students.

Panel 1:

• UEA: Samarth Gowda, sgowda@andrew.cmu.edu
• Scottie Ventures: Aaron Silverstein, aosilver@andrew.cmu.edu
• IEA: Haoyang He (Tiger), hhe2@andrew.cmu.edu
• GEC: Brian Hayt, bhayt@tepper.cmu.edu
• Innovation Scholars: Sachi Shah
• NSF I-Corps: Shayan Gupta
• PROBE: Connor Colombo, colombo@cmu.edu
• Swartz Fellows: Daniel McDade, dmcdade@tepper.cmu.edu and Emily Ellis, ede@andrew.cmu.edu
• Innovation Fellows: Jooli Han, joolih@andrew.cmu.edu
• Corporate Startup Lab: Nick Shariat and Michael Coutinho
• McGinnis Venture Competition-Joseph Pugar, pugarj@arugatechnologies.com
• Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition: Len Caric, lcaric@andrew.cmu.edu
• VentureBridge: JJ Xu, jj@talkmeup.co

On Campus & Community Resources
Meet members from Innovation Works, AlphaLab, AlphaLab Gear, CTTEC and many more.

Panel 2:

• CTTEC: Reed McManigle, reedm@andrew.cmu.edu
• Project Olympus: Kit Needham, kit@andrew.cmu.edu and Melanie Simko, msimko@andrew.cmu.edu
• IDeATe: Kelly Delaney, kellydel@andrew.cmu.edu
• Innovation Works: Ilana Diamond, Ilana.Diamond@outlook.com and Jim Jen, jjen@innovationworks.org
• Life X: Mara McFadden, mmcfadden@lifex-labs.com
• Philips: Mary Beth Navarra-Sirio, mary.beth.navarra-sirio@philips.com

Pitch Your Idea
Connect with other founders and co-founders.

Entrepreneurship at CMU & Panel Discussions
Learn the ins and outs of entrepreneurship at CMU and in Pittsburgh from the perspective of startups and students. Meet members from Innovation Works, AlphaLab, AlphaLab Gear, CTTEC, Tech Spark and many more.

Panel 1: Swartz Center Programs & Entrepreneurship Clubs

• Stuart Diller, sdiller@andrew.cmu.edu, Innovation Fellows Program
• Samarth Gowda, sgowda@andrew.cmu.edu, Undergraduation Entrepreneurship Association (UEA)
• Dave Jasnos, djasnos@gtentrepreneurs.com, Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
• Kwaku Jyamfi, jyamfi@cmu.edu, NSF I-Corps Program
• Paris Mielke, pmielke@andrew.cmu.edu, Swartz Center Space
• Shana Pradeep, shanap@tepper.cmu.edu, Swartz Fellows Program
• Lisha Prakash, lishap@tepper.cmu.edu, Graduate Entrepreneurship Club (GEC)
• Wallace Scott (Penn), wpscott@tepper.cmu.edu, Project Olympus PROBE Program
• Jason Somma, jsomma@tepper.cmu.edu, Corporate Startup Lab
• Matt Spettel, mspettel@andrew.cmu.edu, Innovation Scholars Program
• Susan Wu, susanw@andrew.cmu.edu, Contrary Capital
• Summer Xia, qinxianx@tepper.cmu.edu, McGinnis Venture Competition
• Jeff Xu, jiaxix1@andrew.cmu.edu, Scottie Ventures
• Xunjie Zhang, xunjie.zhang@nimbus-robotics.com, VentureBridge Program
• Chenchen Zhao (Rosie), czhao2@andrew.cmu.edu, IEA

Panel 2: Swartz Center Partners

• Ilana Diamond, AlphaLa Gear & Innovation Works, idiamond@alphalabgear.org
• Kelly Delaney, IDEATE, kellydel@andrew.cmu.edu
• Erica Friedman, Innovation Works (UpPrize), efriedman@innovationworks.org
• Diana Haidar, TechSpark, dhaidar@andrew.cmu.edu
• Jim Jen, AlphaLab & Innovation Works, jjen@alphalab.org
• Mara McFadden, LifeX, mmcfadden@lifexventures.com
• Reed McManigle, CTTEC, reedm@andrew.cmu.edu
• Mary Beth Navarra-Sirio, Philips, mary.beth.navarra-sirio@philips.com
• Melanie Simko, Project Olympus, msimko@andrew.cmu.edu

Entrepreneurship 101
Interested in entrepreneurship but have little to no experience? Learn the vocabulary and how startups differ from small businesses.

Networking at the Swartz Center
Experience CONNECTS, which formally connects you with the entrepreneurial community around you.

Entrepreneurship at CMU & Panel Discussions
Learn the ins and outs of entrepreneurship at CMU and in Pittsburgh from the perspective of startups and students. Meet members from Innovation Works, AlphaLab, AlphaLab Gear, CTTEC and many more.

Entrepreneurship 101
Interested in entrepreneurship but have little to no experience? Learn the vocabulary and how startups differ from small businesses.

Research to Commercialization
Through this panel discussion learn the building blocks from research to commercialization.

Networking at the Swartz Center
Experience CONNECTS, which formally connects you with the entrepreneurial community around you.

Entrepreneurship at CMU & Panel Discussions
Learn the ins and outs of entrepreneurship at CMU and in Pittsburgh from the perspective of startups and students. Meet members from Innovation Works, AlphaLab, AlphaLab Gear, CTTEC and the Robotics HUB.

Entrepreneurship 101
Interested in entrepreneurship but have little to no experience? Learn the vocabulary and how startups differ from small businesses.

Research to Commercialization
Through this panel discussion learn the building blocks from research to commercialization.

Entrepreneurial Internships & Careers
Experience entrepreneurship as a career and internship.

Travel to Project Olympus
4620 Henry St., Pittsburgh PA 15238
Walk to Project Olympus for the remainder of Bootcamp for an informal networking event.

Networking at Project Olympus
4620 Henry St., Pittsburgh PA 15238
Experience CONNECTS, which formally connects you with the entrepreneurial community around you.

Entrepreneurship at CMU & Panel Discussions
Learn the ins and outs of entrepreneurship at CMU and in Pittsburgh from the perspective of startups and students. Meet members from Innovation Works, AlphaLab, AlphaLab Gear, CTTEC and the Robotics HUB.

Entrepreneurship 101
Interested in entrepreneurship but have little to no experience? Learn the vocabulary and how startups differ from small businesses.

Entrepreneurial Internships & Careers
Experience entrepreneurship as a career and internship.

Travel to Project Olympus
4620 Henry St., Pittsburgh PA 15238
Walk to Project Olympus for the remainder of Bootcamp for an informal networking event.

Networking at Project Olympus
4620 Henry St., Pittsburgh PA 15238
Experience CONNECTS, which formally connects you with the entrepreneurial community around you.