Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

As we turn towards November, it means that Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is quickly approaching! Be sure to register for this amazing event where Nicki Zevola Benvenuti will lead a Digital Marketing workshop at the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship on November 19 at 5:00pm! #startups #entrepreneurship #GEW #cmu #digital #marketing

And here they are! Congratulations again to our new cohort of James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows. We had a photo shoot for them today, along with our undergraduate Innovation Scholars. Glamour group shots forthcoming!!😁Next up...we will be preparing for the annual Entrepreneurship Trek to Silicon Valley in January. Read more about each of the new Swartz Fellows here! https://shorturl.at/IOZUu #SwartzFellows #InnovationScholars #cmufounders

Calling ALL CMU student entrepreneurs! Applications open today for the 2025 McGinnis Venture Competition, a platform exclusively for Carnegie Mellon University's community of student entrepreneurs. This competition brings together Carnegie Mellon's best and brightest student entrepreneurs to compete for $60K in investments! Find out more about the competition and how to register your team in today's Weekly Bulletin! https://lnkd.in/edKz-2cU Carnegie Mellon University #McGinnisVentureCompetition2025

ATTENTION Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Students! Applications for CSL's Spring 2025 programming is now open! Please consider applying for the Corporate Startup Lab Project Course and the CSL Fellows! The CSL Project Course pairs Interdisciplinary graduate student teams with large companies to explore and define new opportunities with companies looking to create transformative growth. Apply here! https://lnkd.in/e-72fGwC The CSL Fellows helps companies identify and create transformative growth opportunities by applying venture and entrepreneurial best practices to corporate innovation. The CSL Fellows pairs interdisciplinary graduate students with corporate partners for a paid fellowship that provides the students with a dynamic Corporate Innovation experience. This program is very competitive, apply here today! https://lnkd.in/epQGYdXA Learn more about the CSL programs on our website! https://lnkd.in/e8fgYNvT Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Mellon College of Science

Congratulations to the 2024-26 cohort of James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows, Innovation Scholars and Innovation Commercialization Fellows, who were celebrated last Friday at the annual Induction Event! What an awesome group of entrepreneurially-minded students from across campus, changing the world one idea at a time. We would like to thank @Jim Swartz Accel for his unwavering support and for joining the induction event virtually. Also, thank you to our alumni Swartz Fellows and Innovation Scholars who shared a few words: JJ Xu (Swartz Fellow), Arthi Manivasakam (Swartz Fellow) Mehmet Deniz Birlikci (Innovation Scholar), Matt Spettel (Innovation Scholar) and Max Mirho (Innovation Scholar). Special shout out to Dave Mawhinney Meredith Meyer Grelli Melanie Simko Project Olympus CMU Swartz Fellows: Ashwini K. Aimee Langevin Sapna Rohra Maitreyi Agarwal Dr. Shubhaa Chawla Gweneth Ge Miguel Almeida Shiv Panjwani Abhishek Mathur Eagle Lo Michael Shang Anthony E. Innovation Scholars: Timothy Brown Ekaterina D. Audrey Hasson David Hershenson Simran Jolly Janise Kim Aaryan Lalwani Krish Mawalkar Jiwon Park Evan Pinnix Erika Ramirez Avalon Sueiro Innovation Commercialization Fellows: Dominik Bauer Mitchell Fogelson Francisco Vicente Carrasco Samuel Gershanok Aaron Trowbridge Thank you to all who attended to make this event special! #cmustartups #cmufounders #SwartzCenter #SwartzFellows #InnovationScholars #InnovationCommercializationFellows

We're celebrating a huge win for Simon Kalouche and the team at Nimble for their $106M Series C funding round in today's Weekly Bulletin! Read more about this awesome news and more in today's edition https://lnkd.in/ekNSjhrS #cmustartups #cmualumnifounders #Nimble

Don't miss the 6th annual CSL Forum next week!

In Pittsburgh on Oct. 29? Join us and Radical Ventures at the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship for an exclusive event bringing together investors, founders, students, and academics in conversation about the latest advancements in AI/ML. Carnegie Mellon University's own Tianqi Chen, Matt Fredrikson, and Vyas Sekar will speak to the practical applications of their research in real-world settings alongside Samsung Next investor Diane Choi. RSVP here: https://lu.ma/80slk382 CC: Raymond Liao, Parasvil Patel, Andy Duong, Miguel Cruz, Dave Mawhinney, Meredith Meyer Grelli

In today's Weekly Bulletin, we're celebrating the newest member of the Swartz Center, Winnie! We've added Winnie to the family to help answer your questions about programs, resources and more. Read about Winnie and other news in today's edition! https://lnkd.in/ewyg4qgE

Our own Dave Mawhinney shared 'The Lean Startup' principles for your startup journey at today's CONNECTS talk! Identify your customers, talk to them often, be better and different, adopt the Goodness Factor, getting comfortable with probability, were some of the takeaways. There's still more CONNECTS talks to come. Make sure to register here! https://lnkd.in/e3zjgtq #CONNECTS #LeanStartup #SwartzCenter