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Two Pitt Student Startup Teams Accepted into Rice Business Plan Competition

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

March 5, 2018 For the first time in the 17-year history of the Rice Business Plan Competition, billed as the world’s richest and largest graduate-level student startup competition, Pitt will be among the competitors. The accomplishment is twice as exciting, as not one, but two Pitt teams were accepted for the 2018 competition. Four Growers […]

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Randall Family Big Idea 2018 Kicks Off with Bootcamp

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

With Nearly 300 Students in  100 Teams, This Year’s Competition is the Biggest in its 10-Year History The final round will take place Thursday, March 29, 2018 at the Charity Randall Theatre at 4 p.m.  Join us to see which teams walk away with a total of $100K.   Sneha Jeevan had developed an idea for […]

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Big Ideas Take Shape at Startup Blitz

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

      By Mike Yeomans January 2018 Nearly 50 students with a pent up passion for entrepreneurship came to the Innovation Institute’s spring semester Startup Blitz armed with ideas that ran the gamut from improved battery chargers for electric cars to a robotic system for harvesting produce in a greenhouse to a social media […]

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Blast Furnace Students Solve Problems Close to Their Hearts

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Mike Yeomans

The problems a few dozen Pitt students wrestled with this semester weren’t in a homework assignment or an exam. They were often intensely personal problems, the solutions to which they had formed into the kernel of an idea for a new product or service. To nurture those ideas they entered the 6th cohort of the […]

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First Gear Teams Awarded $25,000 at Demo Day Pitch Competition

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Mike Yeomans

November 30, 2017 By Mike Yeomans A biomaterial bandage for closing chronic wounds and a fall detection and prevention system were both awarded a total of $25,000 from the Chancellor Innovation Commercialization Funds at the most recent Pitt Ventures First Gear Demo Day. Taking the top award of $20,000 in the pitch competition was OH […]

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12th Celebration of Innovation Recognizes Accomplishments of Pitt Innovators

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Mike Yeomans

      The University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute hosted its 12th Celebration of Innovation on November 29, 2017, at Alumni Hall, Connolly Ballroom. The Celebration of Innovation recognized Pitt faculty and students who have had their discoveries licensed or optioned from the University. The University enjoyed a record breaking year of innovation in Fiscal […]

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Pitt Ventures Student Challenge Awards $62,500 to Six Innovation Teams

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Mike Yeomans

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Engineering Students Make Strong Showing at Startup Blitz

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Mike Yeomans

October 16, 2017   Jenna Gustafson and Megan Cala, doctoral candidates in the Chemical Engineering department, brought their idea for a breathalyzer for cancer screening to the Innovation Institute’s Startup Blitz not knowing what to expect. Twenty-four hours later they left with two potential new team members, a $1,000 cash award and plans to advance […]

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AlphaLab Gear Retools its Hardware Startup Accelerator

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Illana Diamond

                Alphalab Gear is an integral part of the Pittsburgh region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Four years into its existence it is innovating its model for serving hardware startups. In this guest blog, Managing Director Illana Diamond outlines the changes being made and the opportunity for Pitt hardware startups to […]

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Pitt Enters Multifaceted Collaboration with Philips Healthcare

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Mike Yeomans

Agreement Spans Talent Development, Technology Commercialization and Applied Research Competition   The University of Pittsburgh and Philips have formed a wide-ranging collaboration that will benefit both organizations through talent development, solving critical healthcare problems, and technology commercialization. Philips, a global leader in health technology, strives to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation, […]

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Pitt Student Startups Aeronics and uTranslated Selected Among Nation’s Best University Startups

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Mike Yeomans

April 17, 2017   Two Pitt student companies that grew up through the university’s entrepreneurship ecosystem have been included among the nation’s best student startups by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2). Aeronics and uTranslated will travel to Washington D.C. April 18-20 to participate in the University Startups Conference and Demo Day, which […]

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Pitt Student Startup Monarch Solar to Compete in ACC InVenture Prize Competition

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Mike Yeomans

March 29, 2017   By Rachel Wilkinson This year, the University of Pittsburgh’s selected finalists for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) InVenture Prize competition will present a fully-realized prototype that began with some socially conscious web searching. Monarch Solar, comprised of team members Jay Murray, Nick Faughey, and Ben Stutz, has its origins in November […]

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