Start Here Mondays connects Penn students with Venture Lab staff for personalized guidance on programs, resources, and opportunities across the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Whether you are exploring an idea, building a venture, looking to join a team, or simply curious about entrepreneurship, we’ll help you understand your options and identify a practical next step.
Hosted in conjunction with Wharton’s Lifelong Learning Initiative in San Francisco, Scale School guides Bay Area entrepreneurs from successful startup to scalable enterprise.
Bringing Wharton research together with the experience of founders, operators, investors, and industry leaders to help growing companies navigate the decisions that come after early traction from customers and capital to people, systems, technology, and culture.
Entrepreneurship is one of the most effective ways to create value, whether you are launching a venture, building something new inside an organization, or exploring a next chapter in your career. Wharton Online’s Entrepreneurship Certificate guides you through a clear three-stage progression — Inspiration, Identification, and Implementation — helping you cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, evaluate opportunities with rigor, and build the relationships and systems that move an idea into action.
Led by Lori Rosenkopf, Simon and Midge Palley Professor; Professor of Management; Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School
Shalini Nag, PhD believes anyone with the drive to solve problems can be an entrepreneur and is building Venture Lab into the place where Penn students turn that drive into reality.
Start Here Mondays connects Penn students with Venture Lab staff for personalized guidance on programs, resources, and opportunities across the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Whether you are exploring an idea, building a venture, looking to join a team, or simply curious about entrepreneurship, we’ll help you understand your options and identify a practical next step.
Hosted in conjunction with Wharton’s Lifelong Learning Initiative in San Francisco, Scale School guides Bay Area entrepreneurs from successful startup to scalable enterprise.
Bringing Wharton research together with the experience of founders, operators, investors, and industry leaders to help growing companies navigate the decisions that come after early traction from customers and capital to people, systems, technology, and culture.
Entrepreneurship is one of the most effective ways to create value, whether you are launching a venture, building something new inside an organization, or exploring a next chapter in your career. Wharton Online’s Entrepreneurship Certificate guides you through a clear three-stage progression — Inspiration, Identification, and Implementation — helping you cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, evaluate opportunities with rigor, and build the relationships and systems that move an idea into action.
Led by Lori Rosenkopf, Simon and Midge Palley Professor; Professor of Management; Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School
Shalini Nag, PhD believes anyone with the drive to solve problems can be an entrepreneur and is building Venture Lab into the place where Penn students turn that drive into reality.
Venture Lab held its 2024 Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Alumni Achievement Award ceremony at Wharton San Francisco. Our event was lead by Lori Rosenkopf, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School, and Rob Goergen, Jr., WG'00, Founder and Chairman, G5 Capital with our fireside chat moderated by Ravi Viswanathan, ENG'90, WG'98, Founder & Managing Partner, NewView Capital.
Bipul Sinha is an entrepreneur, engineer and venture capitalist. He is the CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Rubrik, Inc. and a Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Previously, Bipul was a Partner at Lightspeed where he focused on software, mobile, and Internet sectors. His investments included Nutanix, Pulse News, Bromium, and PernixData. Before Lightspeed, Bipul worked at Blumberg Capital, where he was the founding investor/board member of Nutanix and Hootsuite. Bipul also held engineering positions at Oracle Corporation, American Megatrends and IBM.
Bipul received his Bachelor in Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where he was bestowed with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Bipul completed his MBA in Finance from The Wharton School where he was a Palmer Scholar. Bipul holds several patents in distributed computing.
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About the Award
The 2024 Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Alumni Achievement Award is given by Venture Lab and recognizes excellence in the Wharton and University of Pennsylvania startup and innovation community.
About Venture Lab
Venture Lab is a resource for all University of Pennsylvania students who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. We maximize the ability of our students to address important challenges through entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking.
