News Archives 2019
December
Monday, December 16, 2019
CMU Spinoff Gecko Robotics Raises $40M
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Astrobotic—A Lunar Tech Company Headed to the Moon—Is First Moving to Pittsburgh's Northside
Thursday, December 5, 2019
CMU Startup GTE Buys Companies With a Unique Model: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Duolingo Now Worth $1.5B
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
CMU Spinout Awarded Government Contract That Could be Worth $30M
Monday, December 2, 2019
CMU Spinout PECA Labs Founders Named to 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30
Monday, December 2, 2019
Enterprising Leaders: TalkMeUp founder JJ Xu Featured in Tepper School Magazine
November
Monday, November 25, 2019
CMU'S Kit Needham Says 'Stop Worrying About Getting It Perfect'
Friday, November 22, 2019
"Pittsburgh-the-Tech-Town" Inventors Come from CMU
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
ESTAT Actuation Creates Cheaper and More Efficient Robotics
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Conservation Labs Raises $1.7 Million in Seed Funding for Smart Water Monitor
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
RedMarlin Raises $10M To Fight Counterfeiting With AI
Monday, November 4, 2019
Goldman Sachs Leads $50M Investment in CMU Credit Card Startup Deserve
Friday, November 1, 2019
CMU Startup GT Entrepreneurs Closes Its Third Deal
October
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Zensors CMU'S Zensors Helps Take Stress Out Of Holiday Travel at Pittsburgh International Airport
Monday, October 28, 2019
TalentIPO CMU'S TALENT IPO MAKES POETS & QUANTS LIST OF THE MOST DISRUPTIVE MBA STARTUPS OF 2019
Monday, October 21, 2019
Idelic Announces Partnership with Keep Truckin
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Pendo Raises $100M at a $1B Valuation
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Headstorm Extends Senior Leadership Team and Opens Office in Pittsburgh
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Little Moochi Wins First Place at Chinese Association for Science Technology Global Innovation Summit
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
CMU's Teratonix Among Winners of 2019 CleanTech Open Northeast Accelerator
Monday, October 7, 2019
Delta Trainer CMU's Delta Trainer Launches New App and Brings On Trainers and Clients
Friday, October 11, 2019
Four MBA Students Join 2019-2020 Class of Swartz Fellows
Friday, October 4, 2019
CMU Swartz Center and Venture Bridge Startup Presents at TechCrunch's Battlefield Startup Competition
September
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
CMU Startup Forest Devices Wins $350K at 2019 MedTech Conference
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
CMU Startup Divvy Secures $43M in Series B Funding
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Vertical Indoor Farming Company Comes Out of Stealth With $35M in Funding and Plans for New Space
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
CMU's Idelic Raises $8M Series A Led By Origin Ventures
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
BlastPoint Inc. Selected by Plug & Play For Its Energy and Sustainability Group
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Fall 2019 CONNECTS Series Lineup
August
Thursday, August 29, 2019
CMU's Beyond Lucid Technologies Wins Frost and Sullivan Technology Leadership Award
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Young Entrepreneur: Aashay Doshi's Plan to Help Pay Off Student Debt
Monday, August 19, 2019
OraSure Sells Cryosurgical Systems for $12M to its Neighbor in Bethlehem, PA
Thursday, August 15, 2019
AI Startup Gather Uses Drones and Computer Vision for Warehouse Inventory
Thursday, August 15, 2019
CMU Alumnus Holds Hackathon for High School Students at the CMU Swartz Center
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
CMU's Comprehend Systems Gets Acquired by Saama
Friday, August 9, 2019
CMU Startups Selected as Finalists for Pittsburgh Technology Council Tech50 2019
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Swartz Fellow Wins $10,000 Prize for AI-powered Virtual Pet
July
Monday, July 29, 2019
Allegheny County Airport Authority Partners with CMU Spinoff Zensors
Friday, July 26, 2019
Undergraduate Students are Starting Their Own Companies to Pay for College
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
CMU Spinout RoadBotics Closes $7.5M Series A
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
CMU Student Matt Spettel Partners with MIT Student to Create an App to Track Exercise Movements
Monday, July 8, 2019
CMU Tepper Alumna and AbiliLife, Inc. Founder Courtney Williamson, Ph.D. Gives Inspiring TEDx Talk
Monday, July 8, 2019
How AbiliLife's Founder is Bringing Parkinson's Patients Better Support
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Fast Company Ranks Deserve Cards Among the World’s Most Innovative Businesses
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Meredith Grelli Becomes Member of the Pittsburgh Business Times Leadership Trust
June
Friday, June 28, 2019
CMU Alumnus Luke Schneider Featured in Tepper Magazine
Monday, June 24, 2019
Carnegie Mellon, Argo AI Form Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research with $15M Multiyear Grant
Friday, June 21, 2019
Zensors Launches AI-Powered 3D Vehicle Tracking System Using Existing Cameras
Friday, June 21, 2019
CMU Alumna and DiligenceVault Founder Featured in Tepper School Magazine: Enterprising Leaders
Thursday, June 20, 2019
CMU's Precision Neuroscopics Team Receives $19M from DARPA to Create Noninvasive Brain Interface
Thursday, June 13, 2019
CMU's Edge Case Research Secures $7M to Make Autonomy Safer
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
CMU Alumnus Glen de Vries Sells Medidata for $5.8B to Dassaulte Systems
Monday, June 10, 2019
CMU Alumnus Will Lutz Featured in New Jersey Business Publication
Friday, June 7, 2019
Announcing the VentureBridge SV 2019 Cohort
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Self-driving Car Startup Gatik Emerges from Stealth with $4.5M in Seed Funding and Walmart Partnership
May
Friday, May 31, 2019
The Robert and Kathleen Dobkin Intuitive Foundation Supports Startups with $1.5 million Gift to Carnegie Mellon University and Swartz Center
Friday, May 31, 2019
Astrobotic Selected by NASA to Deliver Science and Research Cargo to the Moon
Friday, May 31, 2019
Enterprising Leaders: Rob Southern, CEO of Ascend Software
Thursday, May 30, 2019
CMU’s Corporate Startup Lab Partners with Companies to Infuse Their Corporate Structure with the Agility and Ingenuity of a Startup
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
CMU Startup Modsy Raises $37M in Series C Funding
Monday, May 20, 2019
RE2 Robotics Receives $3M in Funding to Develop Dexterous Underwater Robotic Hand for US Navy
Thursday, May 16, 2019
CMU Spinout Yodel Labs Wins $50K at AlphaLab Gear Hardware Cup International Finals
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
CMU Startup Algorithmia Raises $25M Series B
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
One America Works Launches in Pittsburgh
May 14, 2019
Tepper MBA Students Trek Across the Country
Friday, May 10, 2019
Swartz Spotlight: Idelic Makes Trucking Safer
Friday, May 10, 2019
Lenore Blum Receives Inaugural Dean's Professorship in Tech EntrepreneurshipDelta Band Featured in CMU's The Tartan
Monday, May 6, 2019
Pittsburgh Has Reinvented Itself as an Education, Medical and Tech City
April
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Delta Band Featured in CMU's The Tartan
Monday, April 22, 2019
Safest Seats, LLC Moves to CMU Campus, Raising Capital for Next Product
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Young Entrepreneur: JJ Xu Gives Workers a Smart Coach on Their SmartphoneAlumni Spotlight: Meredith Grelli Crafts Experiences
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
CMU Alumnus Adam Simone Discusses Leaf Shave, the All-metal, Eco-friendly Razor
Friday, April 5, 2019
Alumni Spotlight: Meredith Grelli Crafts Experiences
Thursday, April 4, 2019
A Northside Startup is Using Facial Recognition to Help Law Enforcement Catch Sex Traffickers
March
Friday, March 29, 2019
McGinnis Venture Competition Funds Winning Student Startups
Friday, March 29, 2019
Wearable Strength Training Platform and Sustainable Food System Win Top Prize in the 2019 McGinnis Venture Competition
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Bain Buys Majority Stake in CMU Spinoff and Beauty Incubator, Maesa
Friday, March 22, 2019
CMU Alumnus' Company Listed Among Nine Favorites by TechCrunch
Friday, March 15, 2019
CMU Alumnus to Lead $100M Wisconn Valley Venture Fund
Friday, March 8, 2019
CMU Wearable Startup Effortlessly Tracks Your Gym Workouts
Friday, March 8, 2019
Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business Scores High Rankings For Entrepreneurship In Bloomberg Businessweek Report
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
CMU Alumnus Michael Preysman Featured in the Wall Street Journal
Friday, March 1, 2019
Who Won the AlphaLab Gear Pittsburgh Hardware Cup
February
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Deserve Cards named One of the Most Innovative Companies in 2019 by Fast Company
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Former Google Exec Invests $2M in Pittsburgh Tech Firm, Niche
January
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Dietrich College Alumna Fights Human Trafficking With AI
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Tendril Acquires Disaggregation-as-a-Service Pioneer EEme
Thursday, January 17, 2019
CMU's Shine Registry is Just Like a Wedding Registry, Only for Entrepreneurs and Startups
Monday, January 7, 2019
Choolaah Indian BBQ was a Smash-hit in Cleveland, and Now It's Quietly Spreading to the East Coast
Friday, January 4, 2019
Shield AI Raises $10.5M In Series A Funding
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Duolingo Learns From Gaming Companies How to Keep Users Coming Back
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Tepper School Places #6 for Entrepreneurship in Bloomberg Businessweek 2018 Ranking
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
CMU's Impact Proteomics Receives $225K Award from the National Science Foundation