CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship

Hi Tartans! ?? We're thrilled to announce an upcoming event this Wednesday - join us for an insightful discussion on how AI startups achieve product-market fit. This event features an incredible lineup of AI industry leaders including: - The Head of Product from Descript - AI Tutor Product Lead at Coursera - Teams from Relevance AI, Gleen, Gather, and Kraftful - Former Product Lead at TikTok - Plus, an exclusive speaker from a unicorn company This will be a highly exclusive event with limited spots available. It's a fantastic opportunity to network with top figures in the AI field and gain insights that are not available anywhere else. ?? Reserve Your Spot Now! Don't miss out on your chance to be part of this unique gathering. Secure your place by checking out the event page and registering at the link below: ?? Register: https://lu.ma/lk2f6kd4

Join us tonight in San Francisco for our Builders' Happy Hour with Paraform! ?? Limited space remains, RSVP here: https://lu.ma/a0n2nmnj

Last call for Tartans tonight in Boston & Cambridge to join us in kicking off a Boston Hub for CMU T&E! We're excited to bring people together to chat, engage, and support one another as we build out more activities for the community. See you tonight at 6:30pm! https://lu.ma/3jhq2iip

Without exceptional founders, innovation wouldn't exist! Over the last 3 weeks, in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and New York, we brought together more than 600 people for CMU VB Demo Day to celebrate stand out CMU alumni and faculty founders. These founders are doing groundbreaking work and I hope you get a chance to know them! Tom Matta, Co-Founder Nomikai, Undergrad Material Sciences & Tepper MBA, VB '24; Dylan Mikus, Co-Founder Fixpoint, Undergrad SCS, VB '24; Satyajit Naik, Co-Founder Aiirify, Tepper MBA, VB '24; Anna Fuller, Co-Founder Halo, Tepper MBA, VB '24; Michael Kaess, Co-Founder Aquatonomy, CMU Faculty Robotics, Xiaoyu Kaess, Ph.D. VB '24; Biao(Leo) Ma, Co-Founder Roboforce, Master's SCS, VB '24; Saisri Akondi, Founder D.Sole, Master's III, VB '24; Kyle Henson, Co-Founder Arda, Undergrad Business, Uriel Eisen, Co-Founder Arda, Undergrad Design, VB '24; Vijeyta Aggarwal, Co-Founder Vectro, Master's INI, VB '24; Bob Dimicco, Co-Founder Reveal AI, Tepper MBA, VB '24. Chelsie Hall, Co-Founder ViralMoment, Master's III, VB ’21; Dipan Pal, Founder Voaige, PhD Robotics, VB ’22; Sarika Bajaj, Co-Founder Refiberd, Undergrad / Masters ECE, VB ’20; Rohan Pandya, Co-Founder Focal, Master's Robotics, VB ’22; Vishakha Gupta, Co-Founder ApertureData, Master's INI, VB ’20; Arman Hezarkhani, Founder Parthean, Undergrad ECE, VB ’21; Clark Haynes, Co-Founder Velo.ai, PhD Robotics, VB ’23;?Joe Mullenbach, Co-Founder Fluid Reality commercialized out of Chris Harrison’s Future Interfaces Group, HCI, VB ’23; Saurabh Misra, Co-Founder Codeflash, Master’s ECE, VB '23; Stuart Diller, Founder ESTAT Actuation, PhD Mechanical Engineering, VB ’21; JJ Xu, Founder TalkMeUp, Tepper MBA, VB '18; Mathew Polowitz, Tepper MBA & Heinz Public Policy, Co-Founder Equa Health commercialized out of David Creswell's Health and Human Performance Lab, Department of Psychology, VB '21; Andreas Pfenning, CMU Faculty SCS, Computational Biology, Founder Snail Biosciences; Spencer Matonis, Founder Edulis Therapeutics, PhD Material Sciences; Logan Nye, MD, Co-Founder Galen Health, Master's SCS; Jay Reddy, Co-Founder Advanced Optronics commercialized out of Maysam Chamanzar's lab, ECE, VB '22, Robert Miller, Co-Founder Off the Line, Tepper MBA, VB '23. Putting together events of this magnitude is intense and we wouldn't have been able to do it without a ton of help. Thanks Andrew Gollach, Partner at SOSV, who hosted us at their beautiful New York City space, and Matt Kirmayer, Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP who hosted us in San Francisco. Thanks Bethany (Schwartz) Watson, Madeline Behr, Sarah Sperry Jesse Thill! Thanks to my partner Aleksandar Petkov and the amazing team in Sonya D. Ford, CAP-OM, Allyson Hince, and the wonderful volunteers Gus Jenkins (Swartz Fellow), Harper LaFave (Swartz Fellow), Jordan Tab (Swartz Fellow), Nisha Maharaj, and David Chan! #CMU #founders #entrepreneurship CMU #VentureBridge (VB) Always a ride Meredith Meyer Grelli, Dave Mawhinney!

?? Upcoming Event ? Join Paraform and CMU T&E for Happy Hour during SF TECH WEEK by a16z! We're gathering the best engineers, founders, and other builders for Tony's pizza ??, drinks ?? , Paraform merch ?? , and great vibes in North Beach. Join us on October 8th at 6:00pm, RSVP below ?? https://lu.ma/a0n2nmnj For questions, reach out to Miranda Nover. See you there!

?? Calling alum in NYC! ?? Join CMU T&E and NYC B2B for an Early-Stage Founders + Builders + Investors Happy Hour! The happy hour will be on Monday August 19th from 6:30-8:30pm. Please register and find more details here: https://lu.ma/b7nrly03

CMU T&E is excited to announce that, in collaboration with CMU Venture Bridge and FalconX, a B2B startup accelerator/venture fund, we will be hosting a Deep Tech Evening at the FalconX space tomorrow on Wednesday, July 31st. Founders from CMU Venture Bridge will come together for a panel discussion on all things deep tech. FalconX is an accelerator/venture fund with over 300 startup investments, 50+ exits, 14 unicorns, and 5 IPOs, totaling a cumulative cap of $75B. If you’re a founder that’s tackling a wickedly technical problem or an investor that’s passionate about investing in cutting-edge tech solutions for the world’s toughest problems, then this is the event for you! We’re expecting an intellectually stimulating talk that?any scientist/engineer/roboticist founder would not want to miss. Use the link below for a request to join! (Note: Registration is upon approval only, with a focus on founders and investors in deep tech (i.e. med-tech, robotics, bio-tech, AI/ML, etc.)) https://lu.ma/mldm1m4w #deeptech #climatetech #medtech #biotech #cmu #tartans #robotics #entrepreneurship #ai #ml

? T&E Happy Hour in San Francisco?this week ?? Join us for another fully decked Happy Hour this Thursday, August 1st, to celebrate SF summer! We’re especially excited to invite CMU Founders and any Interns who are around this summer. Delicious Food & Drinks: Catered by the iconic?Saluhall Market. Meet Fellow Founders: Connect with other CMU founders and share your entrepreneurial journeys. Network with Interns: Get to know our talented summer interns and exchange ideas in a relaxed setting. RSVP open?until we're at capacity - just let us know if you're bringing a +1.? https://lu.ma/xwsr2ff8 Special thank you to Michael Donohue and Hamatha for sponsoring this event.

?? ?? Just one week until our Robotics Venture and Startup Summit! Whether you're joining us in person or virtually, we're thrilled about our packed agenda of speakers and panelists. We're especially excited to feature Lake Dai, a CMU alumna and Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University - Integrated Innovation Institute, who will be delivering the opening remarks. In-person RSVP (waitlist only): https://lu.ma/s26ocvh3 Virtual RSVP: https://lu.ma/y4uk10tk

Calling all entrepreneurs and investors focused on cybersecurity, especially CMU Tartans!