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Entrepreneurship Expo: Founder Fireside Chat with Jim Bankoff, WG'96, Founder & CEO, Vox Media
Entrepreneurship Expo: Founder Fireside Chat with Jim Bankoff, WG'96, Founder & CEO, Vox Media
Moderated by Lori Rosenkopf, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Simon & Midge Palley Professor of Management
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Bet on Entrepreneurship: Meet Our 2022 Cohort
The Bet on Entrepreneurship program provides First Generation and/or Lower Income members of the Class of 2026 at the University of Pennsylvania with an eight-week, summer immersive placement with San Francisco/Bay Area-based charter venture capital firms.
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Retail Lab Founder Series: Fernando Rojo, CEO of Patos
Fernando Rojo, C’19, CEO of PATOS has been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Refinery29, Buzzfeed, NBC News, CNBC, and more. Patos provided work for over a dozen local artisans in Peru's impoverished cities to handcraft sneakers for PATOS.
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Photos Recap: 2024 Startup Challenge presented by Venture Lab at The University of Pennsylvania
Photography by James Graves @ Venture Lab at The University of Pennsylvania
2024 Startup Challenge team Jochi award ceremony
Jochi, Venture Lab's 2024 Startup Challenge winner takes home the President's Innovation Prize! 
Jochi, founded by Yash Dhir, SEAS'24, and Rahul Nambiar, SEAS'24, has been making waves in the Penn startup scene, securing multiple awards and recognition, including Venture Lab's 2024 Startup Challenge's Launch Award, The AI at Wharton Award, The Audience Choice Award, the Draper Bridge Fund Award and has also taken home the prestigious President's Innovation Prize!
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2024 Startup Challenge Award Ceremony
Wharton Scale School: Maintaining Culture in Scaling a Business
Wharton Scale School: Maintaining Culture in Scaling a Business
Clean Tech Social Entrepreneurship Salon
Clean Tech Social Entrepreneurship Salon
2024 Startup Challenge Nirb - Perlman Grand Prize Winner
NIRBY Wins $50,000 Perlman Grand Prize in Startup Challenge presented by Venture Lab at the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 16, 2024–The University of Pennsylvania’s Venture Lab is pleased to announce the winner of its annual Startup Challenge: Nirby, founded by Piotr Lazarek SEAS'25 W'25. Nirby is a real-time soil analytics and farmland management tool for large agricultural enterprises, leveraging satellite data and proprietary drone systems to deliver actionable insights within minutes. The tool enables up to 40% savings on fertilizer expenses and up to 15% increase in crop yields.
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Scale School: Maintaining Culture in Scaling a Business
As smaller companies grow, the greatest challenge lies in maintaining company culture when business owners feel that their spirit and values are lost during rapid expansion.
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Kasa Living, Inc. Closes $70 Million Series C Funding Round Led by Citi Ventures
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2023 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: Flagler Health, Wharton School
by Jeff Schmitt, Poets&Quants
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2023 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: Nemu, Wharton School
by Jeff Schmitt, Poets&Quants