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News Archives 2025

Friday, June 20, 2025
Introducing the VentureBridge '25 Startups!

Friday, June 20, 2025
VentureBridge '25 Cohort Spotlight: Derek Gregg, Kaavio

Thursday, June 19, 2025
Y Combinator Announces Launch of CMU Alumni Founded Boost Robotics

Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Benetech Named to Forbes Accessibility 100 List

Friday, June 13, 2025
The Birth of the University as Innovation Incubator: Carnegie Mellon Received One of the First University Incubators

Friday, June 13, 2025
Gecko Robotics Reaches Unicorn Status Doubling Valuation to Over $1B

Thursday, June 12, 2025
Tepper School of Business Alumni Receive 2025 Tepper Alumni Awards

Thursday, June 5, 2025
Beyond Reach Labs Awarded $50K at Keystone Space Collaborative Innovation Challenge

Thursday, May 29, 2025
Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute taps RE2 Robotics founder as New CEO

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
CMU Spinout Anactisis Awarded $20K at the Spring 2025 EPIC Pitch Competition

Thursday, May 22, 2025
Artian AI Co-Founder and CEO Prashant Reddy Announces $8M Fund Raise

Thursday, May 22, 2025
2025 Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholar Saisri Akondi Harnessed CMU's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem to Revolutionize Care for Diabetics

Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Codeflash Founder Saurabh Misra Shares Why AI-Powered Code Optimization Is Now Essential

Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Carnegie Mellon, Mid-Atlantic Hub Host First NSF I-Corps Cohort for AI, Robotics

Wednesday, May 14, 2025
UCLA Receives ADEA Grant to Use Pearl’s AI Platform to Improve Radiologic Education and Clinical Performance for High-Quality, Consistent Patient Care

Friday, May 9, 2025
Swartz Center Founding Executive Director Dave Mawhinney Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the PVCA

Thursday, May 8, 2025
Tepper School of Business MBA Ruben Antonio Quesada Named to Poets & Quants Best and Brightest Class of 2025

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Aurora Innovation Deploys First Driverless Semi-truck on Texas Roads

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Lovelace AI Secures Seed Funding

Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Near Earth Autonomy's Barry Rabkin Named to CMU's 2025 Tartans on the Rise

Thursday, May 1, 2025
Gather AI Among CB Insights Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Startups of 2025

Thursday, May 1, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Founded Companies Make Pittsburgh Startups to Watch in 2025 List

Thursday, April 24, 2025
HEBI Robotics Recently Inked a Contract with NASA's Ames Research Center

Thursday, April 24, 2025
Near Earth Autonomy Secures $790K Contract to Deliver Miniaturized Autonomous Flight Systems

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Honeycomb Credit Acquires IFund Women (IFW)

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Gecko Robotics Partners with L3Harris to Create Virtual Aircraft Inspection Technology

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
CMU Spinout Panopto Appoints New CEO

Thursday, April 10, 2025
Robb Myer Accepts New Role as Assistant Director at Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Grove City College

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
CMU Alumni Spotlight: Former ActivLearning CEO Justin Weinberg

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
The Swartz Center Hosts Final Funders & Founders Talk in the 'Meet the Parents' Series

Friday, April 4, 2025
Draper Associates Invests $1M in Pittsburgh's Mito Robotics to Automate Wet Labs

Friday, April 4, 2025
Shelfmark Selected as a Finalist In TitletownTech Startup Draft

Friday, March 28, 2025
The Swartz Center Hosts CMU Energy Week Reception

Thursday, March 27, 2025
New Scott Institute Award Gives Entrepreneurship a Boost

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Refiberd Named U.S. Winner of eBay x Council of Fashion Designers of America

Monday, March 24, 2025
Nimble Among Fast Company's Ten Most Innovative Logistics Companies of 2025

Friday, March 21, 2025
Celebrating the 2025 McGinnis Venture and Social Enterprise Prize Competition!

Thursday, March 20, 2025
CMU Spinoff Pearl Street Acquired by Enverus

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
CMU Founder of DashStrom Selected for Innovation Works' AlphaLab Accelerator

Friday, March 14, 2025
Inc. Names Alison Alvarez to Its 2025 Female Founders 500 List

Thursday, March 13, 2025
Tartans on the Rise Celebrates Several Carnegie Mellon University Founders

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
A Closer Look: Two CMU Startups Accepted Into Accelerators: BAM! Founder Kaitlyn Chow Accepted Into AlphaLab's First Combined Cohort

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Hardly Accepted Into Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator and AlphaLab's First Combined Cohort

Friday, March 7, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship Founding Executive Director Dave Mawhinney Inducted Into Dealmakers Pittsburgh Hall of Fame

Thursday, March 6, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University Alumnus Alan Frank Inducted Into Pittsburgh Basketball Club Hall of Fame

Thursday, March 6, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University Undergraduate Team Wins Second Place at VCIC

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
2024 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: Sabana, Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)

Monday, March 3, 2025
Fluid Reality a Finalist for SXSW Pitch

Friday, February 28, 2025
Gecko Robotics Announces $100M Deal with NAES

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
SpotDraft Secures $54M To Lead AI Contract Lifecycle Management

Thursday, February 20, 2025
Abridge Announces $250M Series D Investment

Thursday, February 20, 2025
CMU Startup Sabana Invited to Participate in the Rice Business Plan Competition

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Team Takes First Place at Pittsburgh Startup Weekend

Thursday, February 13, 2025
Gather AI Announced a Partnership to Use American Made Drones Made by California-based ModalAI

Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Carnegie Mellon Names Included in The Pittsburgh Business Times' 2025 Pittsburgh Power 100

Thursday, February 6, 2025
Ecotone Renewables Co-Founders Earn Feature in Forbes 30 Under 30

Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Astrobotic Secures New Lunar Payload

Friday, January 31, 2025
Softbank in Talks with Pittsburgh Robotics Startup Skild AI to lead $500M Round

Friday, January 31, 2025
Boom Supersonic Raises $33M to Build the Fastest Airplane for Passenger Flight

Thursday, January 30, 2025
Korion Health Co-Founder Anna Li Combines Tech and Preventative Health Care

Thursday, January 30, 2025
Innovation Works Unites AlphaLab Accelerator Program with Emphasis on Market-facing Skills

Friday, January 24, 2025
NovoLINC Secures Investments to Assist AI Computing with Groundbreaking Thermal Interface Technology

Friday, January 24, 2025
Leaficient Partners with The Chef’s Garden to Revolutionize Farming with AI-Driven Solutions

Thursday, January 23, 2025
TalkMeUp Founder JJ Xu Shares Thoughts On Being an Immigrant Founder in Pittsburgh

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Tepper School Undergraduate Student Makes History as Third-Youngest Funded by Y Combinator

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Niche Acquires Goodkind to Modernize How Colleges and Schools Connect with Students

Friday, January 3, 2025
Stratus Material Secures $3M From Department of Energy