News Archives 2021
December
Friday, December 17, 2021
Bloomfield Robotics, Inc. Raises $1.8M in Its First Funding Round with a Japanese Manufacturer
Friday, December 10, 2021
Mambu Valued at $5.3B in Investment Led by Private Equity Firm EQT
Friday, December 10, 2021
Pair Team Secures $7.3M to Build Primary Care Infrastructure for Medicaid and Underserved Populations
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Two VentureBridge Founders Selected to Poets&Quants 2021 Most Disruptive MBA Startups List
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Fractional Lands $5.5M to Make Real Estate Ownership More Accessible
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Nimble Robotics Transforms eCommerce Fulfillment, Deploying Fleets of Intelligent Picking Robots
November
Friday, November 19, 2021
Visa Makes Strategic Investment in Deserve Cards
Friday, November 12, 2021
Poets&Quants Ranks Tepper Among the World’s Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship
Thursday, November 11, 2021
CMU Alumnus Mohak Nahta's Atlys Gets Investment from Andreessen Horowitz
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
CMU Tepper Student Nadia Susanto Featured in Poets&Quants' Most Disruptive Business School Startups 2021
Friday, November 5, 2021
Honeycomb Credit Wins $250K In Comcast LIFToff Impact Challenge
October
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Aurora Unveils First Version of Flagship Product Ahead of IPO Debut, Aurora Driver Beta
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Two Pittsburgh Female Founders and Several Other CMU Companies Named to RealLIST Engineers 2021
Thursday, October 21, 2021
CMU VentureBridge Company ViralMoment Wins $50K At Pittsburgh's Eradicate Hate Global Summit
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Digital Dream Labs to Introduce New Robotic Drone Product Following $9M Manufacturing Agreement with Draganfly
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Innovation Fellow Gregory Houchins Accepted as Breakthrough Energy Fellow
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Swartz Center's Dave Mawhinney Moderates Tepper Alumni Webinar Series: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Fifth Season
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
New York Firm Acquires Pittsburgh-Based Vigilant Technologies
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
CMU's NoRilla Featured in Science: New Research Shows Learning Is More Effective When Active
September
Thursday, September 23, 2021
The CMU Swartz Center's VentureBridge Demo Day Showcases Alumni Startups
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Agot.AI, a 2020 VentureBridge Participant, Raises $10M
Thursday, September 16, 2021
RE2 Robotics Receives $9.5M Contract to Develop Underwater Autonomous System for the U.S. Navy
Friday, September 10, 2021
Aurora Makes Pittsburgh Its Official Headquarters
Friday, September 3, 2021
Octane Banks $2M for Flexible Billing Software
Friday, September 3, 2021
Shield AI Announces $210M in Series D Funding
Thursday, September 2, 2021
A Revolutionary, Automated Lab
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Idelic Inc. Partners with Truck Video Camera Maker
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Robot Truck Startup Gatik Raises $85M in Series B Funding
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
CMU founder Allie Zhang completes $8.8M fundraise for Nakji Network
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Vote for ToyzSteam in MIT Solve Challenge (Category: Antiracist Technology in the U.S.)
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Parthean relaunches focusing on financial literacy. Sign up for the waitlist.
August
Thursday, August 24, 2021
NSF Grant Funds CMU iii Alumni Startup
Friday, August 20, 2021
Apeel Sciences Bites Into Another $250M Funding Round
Friday, August 20, 2021
With Pittsburgh Rollout Complete, Meter Feeder Looks to Simplify Paying for Parking
Thursday, August 19, 2021
CMU's Zensors Gets Backed by Y Combinator
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Rubitection CEO and Founder, Dr. Sanna Gaspard, featured in #StartupsEverywhere
Friday, August 13, 2021
BlastPoint Raises $750K
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Farm to Flame Energy Among Recipients of $75K Inaugural CleanTech Seed Grant
Friday, August 6, 2021
DeltaTrainer Has Rebranded To CoPilot
July
Friday, July 30, 2021
Duolingo IPO: Language Learning App's Stock Goes Public on the Nasdaq Under 'DUOL'
Thursday, July 29, 2021
Pendo Raises $150M at a $2.6M Valuation
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
DOE Awards Over $1.65M To Three CMU Clean Energy Startups
Thursday, July 22, 2021
A Passion for Entrepreneurship: CMU's Undergraduates Aim To Forge New Paths Through Innovation Scholars Program
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
RE2 Robotics Marks 20th Anniversary with Launch of a New Robotic Arm For Outdoor Mobile Applications
Friday, July 16, 2021
Digital Dream Labs Closes $1M Equity Raise
Thursday, July 15, 2021
OneValley Startup Challenge Winners
Friday, July 9, 2021
Innotescus Launches Its Next Gen Video And Image Annotation Platform
Thursday, July 8, 2021
CMU's Bloomfield Robotics Wins the Innovation Icon Award at Forbes|THRIVE Future of Food Summit
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Astrobotic Wins Two NASA Prizes for Lunar Power Infrastructure
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Teratonix Named a Winner in Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge
Friday, July 2, 2021
Duolingo Files To Go Public
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Dave Mawhinney Shares How Carnegie Mellon is Helping to Foster Its Students Entrepreneurial Ambitions
June
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Prelude Raises $1.2M Seed To Fix Broken Recruiting Process
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Laurie Barkman, CEO and Founder of SmallDotBig, Becomes M&A Advisor with Stony Hill Advisors
Friday, June 25, 2021
CMU's Pat O'Donnell Becomes New Head of Headstorm Pittsburgh Office
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Mastercard Invests $50M In Deserve Cards
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Marinus Analytics Wins Third Place and $500K in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
BA Student Becomes First Innovation Scholar from the Qatar Campus
Friday, June 11, 2021
Elligo Health Research Acquires Root Health
Thursday, June 10, 2021
EKTO VR Raises $340K to Launch Partner Beta Program
May
Friday, May 21, 2021
DeltaTrainer Raises $3.3M to Boost Development of Its Platform and Wearable Technology
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Pittsburgh's Cognistx Using AI To Identify Psychedelic Drugs To Treat Depression, Anxiety and PTSD
Friday, May 14, 2021
Tepper School of Business MBA Melissa Bizzari Among Poets & Quants' 2021 Best and Brightest MBA's
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Collective Raises $20M From Ashton Kutcher's VC
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Astrobotic Announces Launch of Moonshot Space Museum
April
Friday, April 30, 2021
Poets&Quants Ranks Fifth Season Eighteenth Among Top 100 Startups by MBA's
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Logixboard, founded by CMU alumnus and Co-founder/ CEO Julian Alvarez, Raises $13M Series A
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Deserve, founded by CMU Tepper Alumnus Kalpesh Kapadia, Launches Digital First Credit Card Software
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Swartz Fellow and Mach9 Robotics Founder Alex Baikovitz Wins TiE Pittsburgh's Regional Competition
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Wise Telemetry Acquired by Otodata Technologies USA
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
AbiliLife, Inc. Founder and CEO Courtney Williamson, Ph.D named to 2021 Enterprising Women of the Year in the "Up to $1M in annual revenues" category
Monday, April 19, 2021
Fifth Season Using Its Fully-Integrated, Automated Operating System to Crack the Economics Code for Vertical Farming
Monday, April 19, 2021
BlastPoint co-founder and CEO Alison Alvarez featured in Poets&Quants 'Sustainability Graduates' story celebrating Earth Day
Friday, April 16, 2021
How ShopKirana Doubled Its Revenue In A Pandemic Year
Friday, April 9, 2021
CMU Alumni Arman Hezarkhani, Nikhil Choudhary and Jason Zhu Discuss The Idea Behind Parthean
March
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Idelic Raises $20M Almost All From Out of Town Investors
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Finding Silence in the Brain: CMU Ph.D. Creates Program That Analyzes Patterns in Data
Friday, March 26, 2021
And the Winners Are!
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Refiberd Wins Best Bootstrap Award at SXSW
Friday, March 19, 2021
Honeycomb Credit Closes $1.75M Seed Funding Round
Friday, March 12, 2021
Nimble Robotics Raises $50M to Build the Future of On-Demand Robotic Fulfillment
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Venture Bridge: Building Bridges to Silicon Valley and Beyond
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science Names First Assistant Dean for Entrepreneurship Initiatives
Monday, March 1, 2021
101edu Closes $4.6M Series A Round
Monday, March 1, 2021
Farm to Flame Energy Wins $100K EPA Small Business Innovation Reserach (SBIR) Grant
February
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Forest Devices Announces Positive Study Results for Their Stroke Detection Technology
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Shield AI Raises $90M in Series C Funding
Monday, February 22, 2021
DeltaTrainer Partners With World's Largest Gym Chain
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Marinus Analytics to Represent U.S. in $5M IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Grand Prize
Thursday, February 18, 2021
CMU Integrated Innovation Institute features 2020-21 Swartz Fellow Shreya Agarwal (MSTV '21) in the news
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Marinus Analytics founder Emily Kennedy speaks on collaboration in a startup environment with Phil Simon
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Pittsburgh Robotics Firms Grow in the Midst of Turbocharged Demand
Monday, February 8, 2021
Covaxx wins first place and Buddy System wins third place at the Pittsburgh Civic Hackathon
Friday, February 5, 2021
Mambu Raises $135M at a $2B+ Valuation for a SaaS Platform That Powers Banking Services
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Recipe for Success: Alumna Raji Sankar forges her own path in the restaurant industry
January
Friday, January 29, 2021
Gecko Robotics to Move Into New Pittsburgh Headquarters
Friday, January 29, 2021
CMU Spinout RoadBotics Helps Municipalities Maintain Roads More Expediently
Monday, January 25, 2021
Re2 Robotics CEO Jorgen Pedersen Named to the Pittsburgh Business Times' 2021 Power 100 List (See Part 3 list)
Friday, January 22, 2021
American Robotics First Company Approved For Automated Drone Flights
Thursday, January 21, 2021
TalkMeUp founder and CEO, JJ Xu leads The Immigrant Project's (TIP) virtual Masterclass on January 27
Monday, January 18, 2021
How Mark Kovscek Managed His Focus Group Sized Family to Launch Conservation Labs
Friday, January 15, 2021
Jeff Housenbold Is Stepping Down As Managing Partner of SoftBank Vision Fund
Friday, January 15, 2021
Fifth Season to Serve As Penguins' Official Greens Partner
Friday, January 15, 2021
BlastPoint Works With Duquesne Light to Address Unpaid Bills During Pandemic
Thursday, January 14, 2021
CMU's Po-Shen Lo Launches New Video Explaining How the NOVID App Is helping to fight COVID-19
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Powerhouse Ventures Invests in CMU startup Pearl Street Technologies (David Bromberg, co-founder)
Friday, January 8, 2021
AdSkate Chosen for 6th PGH Launch Cohort (Shreyas Venugopalan, cofounder)
Friday, January 8, 2021
CMU Startups Among NEXT Pittsburgh's Fifteen Tech Companies to Watch in 2021