News Archives 2017
December
Thursday, December 21, 2017
CMU Alumna Hahna Alexander is Making Powerful Strides Toward an “Unplugged” Future
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Carnegie Mellon Ranked Fifth for Universities that Support Female Entrepreneurs
Monday, December 18, 2017
NoRILLA Receives 2018 Gold Cultivating Curiosity Award
Monday, December 18, 2017
Choitek Founder's ASPIR Humanoid Robot Featured on Discovery Channel Canada
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
LegalSifter Combines AI and Legal Advice in Contract Negotiation Solution
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Pittsburgh Chosen As Temporary Home for GeekWire
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Alumnus Rob Cochran Shares His "Exhilarating Ride" as an Entrepreneur
Thursday, December 7, 2017
3D Interior Design Company Modsy Raises $23M
Thursday, December 7, 2017
CMU Qatar Joins QDB for New Business Competition
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
CMU Teams Advance to Second Round of AI XPrize
Monday, December 4, 2017
Frank Demmler Thinks Splitting Equity Equally Sours Friendships in the Startup World
Monday, December 4, 2017
Hipster Internet Favorite Reddit In the News
Friday, December 1, 2017
CMU Swartz Center Inducts 2017-18 Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows Cohort
November
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Kuvee Co-founder Makes Forbes 30 Under 30
Friday, November 17, 2017
Swartz Center EIR Robb Myer Featured in Tepper Magazine
Thursday, November 16, 2017
CMU's Naturi Ramps Up Production
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
CMU Robotics Institute's Bossa Nova Robotics Raises $17.5M
Friday, November 3, 2017
Choitek Founder Creates 3D Printed, Full Size Robot
Thursday, November 2, 2017
LaunchCMU 'Robotics in Manufacturing' Featured The Best of CMU Robotics Startups
Thursday, November 2, 2017
CFA Alumni Create Connections Between Creation and Design
October
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
NSF I-Corps Site Team BuildSim in the News
Monday, October 23, 2017
Solvvy Raises $12M Series A
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
CMU Alumnus' Deserve Credit Card Gets $12M
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
CMU Alumnus Steve Fleck Among Pittsburgh's 40 Under 40 Honorees
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
IAM Robotics Grabs $500K Investment From Silicon Valley Firm
Monday, October 16, 2017
CMU Startups Have Raised More Than $1B in Venture Capital Funding Since 2011
Thursday, October 12, 2017
CMU Alumnus' New App Helps Strangers Connect and Share Ideas
Thursday, October 12, 2017
CMU Startups Among Pittsburgh Tech 50 Finalists
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
CMU Grad Seeks 50 Tech Employees for His Online Mortgage Company
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Innovation Works, Inc. Seed Fund and Accelerator Companies Attract Over $2 Billion Follow-On Investment
Friday, October 6, 2017
CMU Startup Closet Infinite Helps You Rent Clothes From Your Favorite Pittsburgh Shops
Thursday, October 5, 2017
CMU's Forest Devices Rings Nasdaq Closing Bell
September
Friday, September 29, 2017
Pitt Ohio's Transportation Tech Spinout Raises $1M Seed Stage Funding
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
CMU's NoRilla Receives $200K NSF Award
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Pittsburgh Magazine's 40 Under 40 Honorees Include Three from CMU
Monday, September 25, 2017
Entrepreneurship: Not Just for Heroes
Monday, September 25, 2017
Venture for America Aims to Increase Pittsburgh Presence
Monday, September 18, 2017
CMU InRes Team Helping to Transport Goods to the Elderly
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
CMU's IAM Robotics Uses Mobile, Picking Robots in Its Warehouse
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Peduto Says The Steel City Will Bid To Bring Amazon HQ2 To Pittsburgh
August
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
CMU's Seegrid Rolls Out Automated Pallet Truck
Monday, August 21, 2017
Carnegie Mellon's Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship Earns I-Corps Renewal
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Energy Startup Hyliion Raising $21M
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Launching In A Crowded Market According To The Founder Of The League
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Women Entrepreneurs Are Fighting Prejudice In Tech Sector
Monday, August 14, 2017
CMU Spinout Astrobotic Releases Video of Proposed Lunar Landing
Friday, August 11, 2017
CMU Startups Among Tech 50 Finalists
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
CMU Alumnus Michael Preysman's Everlane Dominates the Millennial Market
July
Monday, July 31, 2017
Aurochs Brewing Launches New Digital Presence
Monday, July 31, 2017
InRes 2017 Team Connect Robotics in the News
Friday, July 28, 2017
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Steven Vicinanza, CEO at CIRRITY
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Conservation Labs Wins First Place in ACORD Insurance Innovation Challenge
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Po-Shen Loh Featured on CBS News
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Rubitection Founder Selected as AAAS Lemelson Invention Ambassador
Thursday, July 20, 2017
CMU Spinoff HEBI Robotics Wants Building Robots to Feel Like Playing with Legos
Monday, July 17, 2017
BuildSimHub Inc. Selected for Techstars IoT 2017 Class
Friday, July 14, 2017
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Matthew Humphrey, CEO and Co-founder, LendingHome
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Pendo Secures $25M Series C Funding
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Brew Gentlemen Drawing Visitors to Pittsburgh's Braddock Neighborhood
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
4moms Seeking New Headquarter Space
Monday, July 10, 2017
STACK, co-founded by CMU Alumnus, Gets Acquired by Blue Star Sports
Monday, July 10, 2017
Hahna Alexander of SolePower, LLC Among Winners of Pittsburgh Business Times 30 Under 30
Monday, July 10, 2017
Skuld, LLC Among 43North Semifinalists
Monday, July 3, 2017
Tepper School of Business Ranked #8 in Financial Times Ranking of Global MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship
Monday, July 3, 2017
RoBotany's Kale Farming Robots in Pittsburgh Don't Need Soil or Much Water
Monday, July 3, 2017
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Darryl Britt, founder of Apprio, Inc.
June
Friday, June 30, 2017
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Meredith Meyer Grelli, Wigle Whiskey
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
CMU Spinoff Marinus Analytics Uses Facial Recognition to Stop Human Trafficking
Friday, June 23, 2017
Algorithmia Scores $10.5M Series A
Friday, June 23, 2017
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Jonathan Kaplan
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
HuMoTech's Robotic Feet Help Test Drive Prosthetics
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
CMU-Developed Software Helps You Design and 3-D Print Robots
Thursday, June 15, 2017
CMU Spinout Conviva Raises $40M
Friday, June 16, 2017
Championing the Entrepreneur
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
CMU's Interactive Tool Helps Novices and Experts Make Custom Robots
Monday, June 12, 2017
SolePower Tech's Wearable Technology Could Save Lives and Dollars in Construction Industry
Friday, June 9, 2017
CMU's RoBotany and Teratonix to Compete in Cleantech University Prize National Competition
Friday, June 9, 2017
PGH Lab's Five New Startups
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
CMU's Hyliion Tripling Staff and Adding Austin Office
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
KOPO Wins First Place and $25K at eCenter@LindenPointe Business Competition
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Defusing a Bomb With a Joystick Isn't Easy: RE2 Robotics Creates Scale Robotic Arm
Friday, June 2, 2017
Sounds of Success: CMU Dietrich Alumnus Steve Martocci
Friday, June 2, 2017
Surtrac Wins International Smart Cities Competition
Friday, June 2, 2017
LaunchCMU's Robotics in Manufacturing Showcases 28 CMU Startups in Silicon Valley
Thursday, June 1, 2017
CMU's Teratonix Wins $5K at FLoW DOE Cleantech UP Competition
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Choitek Launches Kickstarter
May
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
CMU Alumna Cindy Padnos: Iluminating Presence
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
CMU's BlastPoint and NoRILLA Present at AlphaLab's Demo Day
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
CMU's American Robotics Raises $1.1M in Seed Funding
Thursday, May 18, 2017
NetBeez Among 2017 Best of Interop ITX Awards
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
ModCloth Introduces #StyleforAll Campaign
Monday, May 8, 2017
Pittsburgh Tops Inc.'s List of Best Cities to Start a Business
Saturday, May 6, 2017
RoBotany's Austin Webb Named 2017 Best and Brightest by Poets & Quants
Friday, May 5, 2017
CMU Spinout Wins Medical Capital Innovation Competition
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Tech Startup Aims to Help Recovering Addicts with New Wearable Device
Monday, May 1, 2017
Modcloth's Expansion Opportunities
April
Friday, April 28, 2017
Swartz Center's Executive Director Receives Tepper Alumni Achievement Award
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Home Equity Financing Platform Patch Homes Picks up $1M Seed Funding
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
CMU's Howie Choset, Snakebot Visit NBC's Tonight Show
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Pittsburgh, the Playbook for Building a Great "Day 1" City
Friday, April 21, 2017
Four new probes highlighted at CMU Project Olympus
Thursday, April 20, 2017
CMU's LeanFM Wins Second Prize at Shenzhen-Silicon Valley Startup Competition
Friday, April 14, 2017
How Walmart Fuels Student Startup Ecosystems
Thursday, April 13, 2017
CMU Student Awarded $5K Scholarship from SelfScore
Saturday, April 8, 2017
CMU's Scotty Ventures Hosts First Intercollegiate Investment Challenge
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Forest Devices Wins Over $600K at Rice Competition
Thursday, April 6, 2017
PECA Labs Achieves CE Mark Certification for exGraft
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Vishwas Prabhakara Doesn't Hold Back
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
CMU's 101 Named Inc.'s Coolest College Startup
Monday, April 3, 2017
Inventory Connection Wins $3K at Launch Place Idea Fest
Monday, April 3, 2017
BlastPoint Wins $150K at UpPrize Social Innovation Challenge
Monday, April 3, 2017
Leanplum Voted Best Place to Work in 2017
Monday, April 3, 2017
SolePower Partners with Footwear Leader to Develop SmartBoots
March
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Simcoach Games' Jessica Trybus Recognized by Carnegie Science Center
Saturday, March 25, 2017
CMU Proud to Have the First Academic Entrepreneurship Program in America
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Meet the UpPrize Impactful Technology Finalists
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
RoBotany and Inventory Connection Win the 2017 McGinnis Venture Competition
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Student Startups Earn Investments in McGinnis Venture Competition
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
ModCloth Gets Acquired By a Division of Walmart
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Inc.'s List of America's Top Student-Run Businesses Includes Two CMU Startups
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
LendingHome's Matt Humphrey Is Changing How We Buy Homes
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
CMU's 101 Wins First Prize at SXSW's Student Startup Madness Tournament
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Pittsburgh Startups Win Over Investors
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Well Armed to Save Lives
Friday, March 3, 2017
Duolingo Launches Course in Swahili
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Alumnus Connects "Internet of Things"
Thursday, March 2, 2017
CMU's Zenrez Raises $6M Series A
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Yelp Buys Nowait for $40 Million
February
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Vishwas Prabhakara: What They Don’t Want You To Know
Thursday, February 23, 2017
SolePower Wins $50K Toyota's Mother of Invention Award
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University’s Swartz Center Announces Sixth I-Corps Site Cohort
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Why Middle America Can Be Better for Entrepreneurs Than Silicon Valley
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Ridesharing of the Future Arrives in Pittsburgh
Monday, February 20, 2017
PGH Lab Seeking Startups to Make Pittsburgh More Efficient and Eco-Friendly
Thursday, February 16, 2017
UpPrize Finalists Selected
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Simcoach Games Re-Releases Its JobPro App
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Entrepreneurs Crack Open Doors for High Schoolers
Monday, February 13, 2017
A Billion Dollar Idea: CMU Alumni Head Automotive
Sunday, February 12, 2017
CMU Students Launch Mobile App to Order Drinks
Friday, February 10, 2017
Uncorking innovation with Treasury Wine Estates in Napa
Thursday, February 9, 2017
CMU Startup 101 Changing the STEM Lecture Forever
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
TerrAvion Raises $10M Series A
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
CMU's RoBotany in the News
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Rough Draft Ventures to Back CMU Student Startups
Friday, February 3, 2017
3-D Designer Puts You in the Interior Designer's Seat
Thursday, February 2, 2017
101 Among Student Startup Madness Finalists
January
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
$3M Gift to Support Inventors at CMU
Monday, January 30, 2017
Rubber Meets the RoadBotics in Pittsburgh
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Community Elf Raises $2M
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Skycision Teams Up Drones with Farmers to Maximize Crop Yields
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
CMU Social Innovation Fellowship Officially Launches
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Amazon Opens New Pittsburgh Office to Tap Local Talent
Friday, January 13, 2017
$250 Million To Support Advanced Robotics Venture Led By CMU
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Pittsburgh Tech Companies to Watch in 2017
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
CMU Companies Make Forbes 30 Under 30
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
LendingHome Founder Makes 30 Under 30 Finance List