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News Archives 2024

Friday, November 8, 2024
Property Co-ownership Startup Fractional Raises $15M

Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Addy AI Founder and CEO Michael Vandi Featured in Silicon Valley Business Journal

Tuesday, November 5, 2024
R.K. Mellon Foundation Awards Combined $1.4M to Four CMU Startups at Social-Impact Pitch Competition

Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Niche Direct Admissions Named One of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024

Thursday, October 31, 2024
Gather AI Partners with Indiana-based Nonprofit to Aid Visually Impaired Warehouse Workers

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
R.K. Mellon Foundation Awards Combined $1.4M to Four CMU Startups at Social-Impact Pitch Competition

Friday, October 25, 2024
Unicorn Startup, Nimble Closes $106M Series C Funding Round, ScalesFully Autonomous Fulfillment with Fedex

Friday, October 25, 2024
R.K. Mellon Foundation Awards Combined $1.4M to Four CMU Startups at Social-Impact Pitch Competition

Thursday, October 24, 2024
LegalSifter Acquires Contract Management Solutions Firm

Friday, October 18, 2024
Alchemy Raises $31M In Seed Funding Led by Andreessen Horowitz

Thursday, October 17, 2024
AI Horizons Pittsburgh Summit Draws Global Experts to Bakery Square (Around Town)

Friday, October 11, 2024
Carnegie Mellon Startups Among Semi-Finalists in the UpPrize Social Innovation Challenge

Friday, October 4, 2024
Korion Health Wins $1M Hult Prize

Thursday, October 3, 2024
CorePower Magnetics Receives Over $1M Backed in Large Part by DoE

Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Near Earth Autonomy Partners with Austin Aircraft Company to Develop Autonomous Casualt Evacuation System

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Why Pittsburgh’s Poised to Lead the AI Revolution

Thursday, September 26, 2024
E-Visa Startup Atlys Raises $20M Series B Funding

Thursday, September 26, 2024
Nimble Launches Robotic Fulfillment Center in New Jersey

Thursday, September 19, 2024
Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business Ranked #3 For Entrepreneurship By Bloomberg

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Galen Health Featured in Pittsburgh Post Gazette: What's Next in AI: Curing Cancer, or at Least Trying

Friday, September 13, 2024
Bloomfield Robotics Acquired by Japanese Tractor Company Kubota

Thursday, September 12, 2024
Sabana to Join Techstars Chicago 2024 Class this Fall

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Cinder Among the Top 100 in Will Reed's Top 100 of 2024

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Brew Gentleman Opens Braddock Public House

Friday, September 6, 2024
CMU Alumnus Greg Volynsky Launches Olive Legal

Thursday, September 5, 2024
FedEx Announces Expansion of FedEx Fulfillment With Nimble Alliance

Thursday, September 5, 2024
Serena Dao Selected to Join VERGE 24 Emerging Leaders

Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Carnegie Mellon Core Partner in New Center To Improve Robot Dexterity

Friday, August 23, 2024
Meredith Meyer Grelli Appointed New Director of Project Olympus 

Thursday, August 22, 2024
Sitewiz Accepted into Alpha Lab's Newest Cohort

Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Transfr Launches Career Exploration 2.0 to Guide Students from the Classroom to to In-Demand-Jobs

Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Brew Gentlemen to Open Braddock Public House In Former Superior Motors Space

Tuesday, August 20, 2024
RK Mellon Foundation Awards $1.4M to Pitch Competition Winners, Including CMU Startups

Friday, August 16, 2024
Velo.AI To Equip POGOH Bikes With Sensors as Part of $15M DOT Grant Program To Improve Road Safety

Thursday, August 15, 2024
How Duolingo Turned a Free Language App Into a $7.7B Business

Friday, August 9, 2024
BlastPoint Featured in Next Pittsburgh's Article: Pittsburgh's Tech Industry Booms Fueled By Startups and Investments

Thursday, August 8, 2024
Aurora Raises $483M to Support Scaling Strategy and Upcoming Launch of Driverless Trucks in Texas

Wednesday, August 7, 2024
AI Horizons Summit Represents Return to Forward-thinking Pittsburgh

Friday, August 2, 2024
Pearl Raises $58M to Help Dentists Make Better Diagnoses Using AI 

Thursday, August 1, 2024
Carnegie Mellon Startups Among Semi-Finalists for UpPrize

Wednesday, July 31, 2024
VentureBridge Startup Fluid Reality Honored with Fast Company's Innovation by Design Award

Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Multi-hyphenate Creator and Technologist Damola Idowu Is Using Hip-Hop To Introduce Pittsburgh Students To Technology, Science, Math and Entrepreneurship

Friday, July 26, 2024
Cold Shipping Might be the Next Industry that Batteries Disrupt

Thursday, July 25, 2024
Galen Health Is a 2024 UpPrize Semi-Finalist

Wednesday, July 24, 2024
The Endgame Entrepreneurship™ Masterclass launched by Laurie Barkman, The Business Transition Sherpa

Friday, July 19, 2024
4moms Acquired by Global Baby Product Producer

Thursday, July 18, 2024
NAVAIR Selects Near Earth Autonomy for USMC Aerial Logistics Connector Program

Friday, July 12, 2024
TalkMeUp Wins Top 20 In AI Training Award

Thursday, July 11, 2024
Skild AI Closes $300M Series A Round Backed In Part By Jeff Bezos

Tuesday, July 9, 2024
CMU, Meta Announce Collaboration to Research Wearable Sensing Technologies

Friday, June 28, 2024
EY Announces Bharani Rajakumar of Transfr as an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 New York Award Winner

Thursday, June 27, 2024
Mehmet Deniz Birlikci Named One of the Top 25 Turkish Graduates in the US for 2024 

Wednesday, June 26, 2024
CyLab Venture Network Connects Researchers, Domain Experts to Support Cybersecurity Startups

Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Aurora Forms Long-Term Partnership with Uber Freight Through 2030

Friday, June 21, 2024
Abridge Continues Expanding, Partners with Texas-based Health Service Provider

Thursday, June 20, 2024
Duolingo Celebrates First Refugee Learners At 'We Rise Together' Gala 

Friday, June 14, 2024
CMU VentureBridge (VB) Announces Investments in Eleven Startups

Thursday, June 13, 2024
Gather AI CEO Sankalp Arora Interviewed on Bloomberg Discussing How The Company is Taking Drone Tech to New Heights

Wednesday, June 12, 2024
TA3 SWIM Partners With Nimble to Scale Operations

Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Artyc Named Technology Pioneer by The World Economic Forum

Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Interpretable AI: A Night of Discovery at PyData Pittsburgh

Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Carnegie Mellon University Startups Among Ten Pittsburgh Startups to Watch in 2024

Friday, May 31, 2024
VentureBridge Company Bolster Announces $14M Series B Led By Microsoft's Venture Fund

Friday, May 31, 2024
CoPilot Rebrands as Trainwell

Thursday, May 30, 2024
Gecko Robotics Co-founder Testifies Before Congress on AI

Wednesday, May 29, 2024
VentureBridge Company Addy AI Accepted Into 2024 GitHub Accelerator For LangDrive

Friday, May 24, 2024
The Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Startup Lab Host Aviation & Robotics Summit

Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Isaiah Rodgers Plans to Continue Working on His Startup, Clutch Post Graduation

Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Software of Excellence Partners with Pearl to Become One of the First Practice Management System Providers to Deliver Dental Artificial Intelligence to the UK and Asia-Pacific Markets

Friday, May 17, 2024
Transfr Named 2024 "Best World-Changing Idea, North America" by Fast Company

Thursday, May 16, 2024
Gather AI Included in the Tech Lead's 100 Cutting-edge Startups Reinventing D2C

Friday, May 10, 2024
Innovation Meets Investment: Highlights from MS AI Venture Studio Investor Day

Thursday, May 9, 2024
CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship President Steven Guo Named to Technical.ly's RealLIST Connectors 2024

Friday, May 3, 2024
Setex (formerly nanoGriptechnologies) Sells Business Unit

Thursday, May 2, 2024
Gecko Robotics Partners with UAE Oil Company

Friday, April 26, 2024
Andreessen Horowitz Promotes Jennifer Li to General Partner to Help Lead its New AI Infrastructure Fund 

Thursday, April 25, 2024
Limelight Steel wins $2.9M from ARPA-E's Iron and Steel Program

Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Why Incorporate in Delaware? Pros and Cons in 2024

Friday, April 19, 2024
Congrats to CMU Undergraduate Scottie VenturesTeam! Winners of the 2024 VCIC Global Finals and $5K!

Thursday, April 18, 2024
RoboBurger to Air on Shark Tank this Friday

Friday, April 12, 2024
D.Sole Co-founders Win $25K Investment at the Rice Business Plan Competition

Thursday, April 11, 2024
Advanced Optronics CEO Jay Reddy Is Helping Surgeons Do Their Job Better

Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Galen Health To Compete at Hult Prize Mumbai Summit 2024

Friday, April 5, 2024
Founder of ShopKirana Named Disruptive Retailer of the Year

Thursday, April 4, 2024
Tepper School of Business Alumnus Todd Medema Receives 2024 Undergraduate Alumni Award

Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Toyz Electronics Is Empowering Gen Z

Friday, March 29, 2024
Gather AI Raises $17M in Round Led by Bain Capital

Friday, March 22, 2024
Announcing the Winners of the 2024 McGinnis Venture Competition

Friday, March 22, 2024
Seven Lessons he learned from Jerry McGinnis

Friday, March 15, 2024
Efficient Computer Secures $16M in Seed Round

Thursday, March 14, 2024
Refiberd Co-founders Included in 2024 Tartans on the Rise

Thursday, March 14, 2024
ESTAT Actuation Selected for Robotics Factory Residency

Wednesday, March 13, 2024
U. S. Steel Makes Strategic Investment in Pittsburgh-Based Autonomous Warehousing Pioneer--Freespace Robotics

Friday, March 8, 2024
RET Ventures Leads $7.5M Series A in Conservation Labs to Interpret Sound for Water Conservation and Machinery Maintenance

Thursday, March 7, 2024
Carnegie Mellon Founded Holy Cow Productions' New Game to Join PlayStation's Incubator Program—India Hero Project

Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Adam Paulisick Featured on Apple Podcast Dealing with Mental Health and Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Collective Selected by Forbes As One of America's Best Startup Employers

Friday, March 1, 2024
Abridge Emerges as a AI Healthcare Leader, Raising $150M Series C

Thursday, February 29, 2024
ESTAT Actuation Named 2023 Co-Op Employer of the Year

Thursday, February 22, 2024
Leah Lizarondo Receives Urban League Leadership Award

Thursday, February 15, 2024
Advanced Optronics and Carnegie Mellon University Awarded $650K NSF Gran to Develop Bio-Inspired Medical Instruments

Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Edulis Therapeutics' Spencer Matonis Announces Win of Up to $5M at The Future of Capitalism Startup Competition

Friday, February 9, 2024
Skincare Leader Partners with Nimble to Rapidly Advance Its Fulfillment Process

Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Tepper School of Business MBA Makes Poets&Quants Most Disruptive MBA Startups of 2023 List

Tuesday, January 30, 2024
ViralMoment, AI Social Video Insights Tool, Raises $2.5M

Friday, January 26, 2024
In Loving Memory: Respironics Founder Gerald E. McGinnis Dies

Thursday, January 25, 2024
CMU-Q and Qatari Businesswomen’s Association Partner to Empower Aspiring Female Entrepreneurs

Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Meter Feeder CEO Jim Gibbs Takes Adversity and Success in Stride

Thursday, January 18, 2024
Shift Robotics' Moonwalkers Featured on the Today Show

Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Culturora CEO Jody Madala Selected for Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center's 2024 Winter Milestone Makers

Friday, January 12, 2024
Vigilant Ops Raises $2MM Seed Investment from DataTribe

Friday, January 5, 2024
Endolumik Makes MassDevice's List of  Biggest Catheter-based Innovations of the Year

Thursday, January 4, 2024
CMU Venture Bridge Company, Fluid Reality, Puts Virtual Reality in the Palm of Your Hand