News Archives 2020
December
Friday, December 18, 2020
Luis Von Ahn Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Monday, December 14, 2020
AbiliLife, Inc. founder & CEO Courtney Williamson, Ph.D. interviewed by Get Pittsburgh
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
The Business of Inclusion: Tepper School alumna's CheerNotes helps everyone find a way to communicate meaninful moments
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
BlastPoint co-founder & CEO Alison Alvarez interviewed by Get Pittsburgh
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Despite COVID-19, Wigle Whiskey's Meredith Meyer Grelli has never been so energized
Friday, December 11, 2020
Aurora Confirms Deal to Acquire Uber's Self-driving Unit
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
CMU Robotics Institute alumnus and Abridge co-founder Sandeep Konam named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in healthcare
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Marinus Analytics founder Emily Kennedy to receive CMU's Outstanding Recent Alumna Award
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
CMU alumnus and Innovation Fellow Anhong Guo named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in science
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Nimble Robotics Founder Simon Kalouche Selected to 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
EKTO VR and many other CMU startups are finalists in TiE Pittsburgh's 7th Annual Startup Awards
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
CMU startup TOYZ Electronics, LLC becomes an X4 Impact solution in quality education/reduced inequality
November
Friday, November 20, 2020
RE2 To Develop Autonomous Casualty Extraction System For the U.S. Army
Thursday, November 19, 2020
CMU alumnus and LeanFM Co-founder Xuesong (Pine) Liu, Ph.D., FMP selected as an IFMA 40 Under 40 finalist
Thursday, November 19, 2020
CMU Tepper alumnus Kofi Ampadu chosen as one of the Business Insider's 100 rising-star VC's
Thursday, November 19, 2020
LittleMoochi becomes a finalist in the LiftOff Pgh Ideathon Pitch Competition
Friday, November 6, 2020
Meter Feeder, Inc. Founder Says He Knew He Wanted to Base His Company in Braddock
October
Thursday, October 29, 2020
DataTribe Appoints John Funge as Startup Foundry's Managing Director
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Idelic Selected Among 2020 Best Places To Work
Monday, October 26, 2020
Duolingo Unveils Community-Inspired Mural and Pledges $150K for a Public Arts Initiative
Monday, October 26, 2020
Teratonix Wins $100K Diamond Award in MassChallenge
Monday, October 26, 2020
Adam Paulisick Shares Article: "The 20-10-10 Exercise: How Leaders Prioritize Their Lives"
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
LittleMoochi Launches 2.0 Version in the App Store
Friday, October 23, 2020
Pittsburgh-based Fintech Startup Troutwood Launches Free App
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Aurochs Brewing's Hazy IPA Wins Gold at American Beer Festival
Monday, October 19, 2020
CMU's AdSkate Selected to Pax Momentum 2020 Fall Cohort (Shreyas Venugopalan, co-founder
Friday, October 16, 2020
CMU's AdSkate Selected to Pax Momentum 2020 Fall Cohort (Shreyas Venugopalan, co-founder)
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Agility Robotics Raises $20 Million to Build and Deploy Humanoid Robots for Work in Human Spaces
Friday, October 9, 2020
Swartz Center Announces New Cohort of Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows
Thursday, October 8, 2020
AI Startup Abridge Raised $15M To Help Patients Transcribe Doctor Appointments
September
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
NoRILLA Receives $2.3M NSF Grant From CMU
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Swartz Center's Dave Mawhinney featured in Part 2 of Pittsburgh Tomorow Podcast: CMU Incubates the Science Fiction Future
Tuesday, September 24, 2020
NASA Receives First CubeRover from Astrobotic
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Ekto VR Debuts Robotic Boots for VR Experiences
Friday, September 18, 2020
Nesra Yannier, founder of NoRilla, mentioned in Remake Learning Article
Friday, September 18, 2020
Andrew Ellerhorst Appointed President and CEO of JDXpert
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
CEO and Co-Founder Paris Mielke Gets Interviewed About Her Startup, Pairi
Monday, September 14, 2020
Aruga Technologies Wins Fifth Place in TiE University 2020 Global Finals (Joe Pugar, co-founder)
Monday, September 14, 2020
Several Carnegie Mellon Companies Receive Nods at Carnegie Science Awards
Friday, September 11, 2020
CMU's Po-Shen Lo Creates NOVID App That Can Warn Users Of Elevated COVID-19 Exposure
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Pittsburgh Tomorrow Podcast: An Interview with Dave Mawhinney of the CMU Swartz Center
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Young Entrepreneur: Shayan Gupta is Helping People To Manage Their Hearing Loss
Monday, September 7, 2020
Rapid Flow Technologies Named Semi-Finalist in Toyota Mobility Foundation Challenge
Friday, September 4, 2020
Astrobotic Awarded Over $1M to Advance CubeRover Payloads
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
VentureBridge 2020 startup Sightseek available in the App Store (Co-founders; Anna Fuller and Logan Anderson)
August
Monday, August 31, 2020
Idelic Debuts New Data Dashboard for Trucking Industry (Co-founders Nick Bartel and Hayden Cardiff)
Monday, August 31, 2020
Niche releases 2021 Best Colleges Ratings (Luke Skurman, CEO)
Friday, August 28, 2020
CMU Startup SparkMeter Completes $12M Series A Financing
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Aurochs Brewing Launches Investment Campaign with Honeycomb Credit
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Innovation Scholar Awa Ndiaye's Zodaj Team Creates Contact Tracing System Over the Summer
Monday, August 24, 2020
CMU's Airviz, Inc. And Its Air Quality Sensor Get Attention During COVID-19
Thursday, August 13, 2020
From Investment Pro to Startup CEO, Natali Gears For App Debut
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Young Entrepreneur: Mayowa Osinowo's Startup Was Born Out of Frustration
Monday, August 10, 2020
Woman of Steel: Priya Narasimhan, Founder and CEO Of YinzCam, Has Designs On Doing Everything
Friday, August 7, 2020
A Perfect Pairing: CMU Alumni Asa Foster and Matt Katase Are Growing Their Popular Craft Brewery
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
CMU'S Bloomfield Robotics Helping To Build Future For Crop Estimation With Its New Product
July
Friday, July 24, 2020
Farm To Flame Energy and LittleMoochi Accepted Into Ascender Accelerator Program
Friday, July 17, 2020
The UEA I-Fund Seeds Student Startups
Friday, July 17, 2020
Three Swartz Center Entrepreneurs Awarded Pittsburgh's 30 Under 30
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Young Entrepreneur: Asha Banks Featured in Pittsburgh Business Times
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
CMU Spinout LumiShield Technologies Reaches Milestone with Aluminum Electroplating Process
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Meet the Founder Who Is Giving Robots Wings To Fly
Friday, July 10, 2020
Craig Markovitz Named Richard King Mellon Foundation's First Prosser Mellon Fellow
June
Friday, June 26, 2020
Honeycomb Credit Offers Small Business Relaunch Loans
Monday, June 22, 2020
CMU's Hyliion Inc. and Tortoise Acquisition Corp. Announce Merger
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Young Entrepreneur: Arman Hezarkhani is Taking A New Approach To Online Learning
Thursday, June 11, 2020
CMU's Astrobotic Awarded $199.5M Contract to Deliver NASA Moon Rover
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Fifth Season Launches New Website and Offers Free Shipping of Its Products for Limited Time
Monday, June 1, 2020
Undergraduate Innovation Scholars Prepare To Forge New Paths
Monday, June 1, 2020
Choolaah Indian BBQ Opening A Second Pittsburgh Location on June 9
May
Thursday, May 28, 2020
CMU Alumnus Kwaku Jyamfi Joins Clean Energy Trust University Accelerator
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
CMU Startup Liquid X Creates E-Textiles That May Help Monitor Patients
Thursday, May 14, 2020
ApertureData Awarded $225K Grant from the National Science Foundation
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
3 Tips for Entrepreneurs: McGinnis Venture Competition
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Entrepreneurship Club Visits Silicon Valley Startup Scene
Monday, May 11, 2020
AI-Powered Virtual Pet LittleMoochi Featured in Next Pittsburgh
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Fifth Season Recognized by Fast Company for its “World Changing” Ideas
Monday, May 4, 2020
Astrobotic Awarded $79.5 Million Contract to Deliver 14 NASA Payloads to the Moon
April
Thursday, April 30, 2020
CMU Researchers Develop Voice Analysis That Could Help Doctors Screen for Coronavirus Symptoms
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Niche Closes $35M Funding Round, Sees Opportunity in COVID-19 Pandemic
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
CMU's FRESH 3D Printing Selected 2020 World Changing Idea by Fast Company
Friday, April 24, 2020
Vertical Indoor Farm Donates Greens to Pittsburgh Non-Profits
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Swartz Center's Dave Mawhinney Shares Insight on How Pittsburgh's Early-Stage Startups Are Surviving COVID-19
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
The CMU Undergraduate Entrepreneur Association Introduces New I-Fund
Friday, April 17, 2020
CMU Professor Creates Innovative App to Anonymously Trace Exposure to COVID-19
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Autonomous Resupply Is Flying Into Reality For U.S. Military Thanks to CMU Spinoff Near Earth Autonomy
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
CMU Startup Gather AI Named Logistics Startup of the Month
Monday, April 13, 2020
CMU's Gecko Robotics Doing Its Part for COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Pittsburgh-based Vertical Farm Fifth Season is Betting On the Power of Technology to Grow Cleaner Food and Create New Jobs
March
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Surviving When You Can't Meet in Person: A Story by Innovation Scholar, Sofia Sill
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Duolingo Launches New App To Help Kids Learn How To Read and Write While Home From School
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Zensors Offers Its Full Platform for Free to Governments, Airports and Businesses Responding to COVID-19
Monday, March 9, 2020
Convertsation AI Software Helps High School Students Foster Productive Discourse
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
CMU Spinoff Locomation and Wilson Logistics Partner on Autonomous Relay Convoy Pilot
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Choolaah Poised to Open Second Pittsburgh Location
Monday, March 2, 2020
DeltaTrainer Can't Afford A Personal Trainer? Artificial Intelligence Could Help
February
February 27, 2020
Entrepreneur Meredith Grelli Finds Success With Uncommon Business Model
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
LittleMoochi to Compete at Rice Business Plan Competition
Monday, February 24, 2020
Pittsburgh-based Digital Dream Labs to Expand Team and Relaunch Robots
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Leanplum raises $27 million in additional Series D funding
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Alumni Profile: Courtney Williamson Helps Others Stand Tall
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Army Recognizes CMU Spinoff LumiShield Technologies in Multi-Phase National Competition
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Maven Machines Raises $7M in Series A Funding
January
Friday, January 31, 2020
Pairi App Accepted Into Techstars Chicago Accelerator
Monday, January 27, 2020
Techstars Chicago Announces Startups Chosen for 2020 Accelerator Program
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Baloon CMU Startup Balloon Raises $2.1M Seed Funding
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Gather AI CMU Alumnus Recognized As One of the Most Influential Scholars in Robotics
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Bloomfield Robotics CMU's Bloomfield Robotics Taps DeSantis as New CEO
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Young Entrepreneur: CMU's Amber Lucas, Ph.D. Started as a Dance Major But Ended Up as a Scientist with Her Own Company
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Spring 2020 CONNECTS Series Lineup