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The latest stories and updates from the Venture Lab community.

Want to share your story, contact Taylor Durham, Director of Marketing and Digital Studios at tjdurham@wharton.upenn.edu.

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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Joseph Kemp's Journey from Penn's Venture Lab to Forbes 30 Under 30

Joseph Kemp, JD, MBA, MSEd (GSE '21), has been recognized on Forbes' 2025 30 Under 30 list in the Games category for his company, Games That Matter, a testament to his innovative approach to gamified education. As the creator of DISBARRED: The Card Game™, Kemp has successfully leveraged his education and the resources at Penn’s Venture Lab to transform how people engage with essential legal knowledge.

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Penn Health-Tech and Venture Lab Launch Fellowship to Develop the Next Generation of Health Technology Innovators

PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Penn Center for Health, Devices, and Technology (Penn Health-Tech) and Venture Lab are excited to announce the launch of the Emerging Leaders in Health Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn ELITE Fellowship). This new initiative will prepare the next generation of health-tech innovators and support the commercialization of university-developed technologies, bridging academia and the healthcare industry.

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Wharton Stories: Making a Tangible Impact through Snider Consulting

Through the four-year consulting program at Penn, undergrads get real-time experience with startups almost from the minute they step on campus.

Meet The Studio Techs: Kausi Raman

Meet The Studio Techs: Kausi Raman

Co-Founder & CEO, Chompshop (formerly Inventable)

Scale School: Improving Customer Insights with AI

Most recently, customer lifetime value (CLTV) models have integrated AI methods - find out which companies are making progress and how they are charting the customer journey in light of GenAI methods.

Alumni Award Dinner | Wharton San Francisco | Sept. 26, 2024

2024 Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Alumni Award Dinner

honoring Bipul Sinha, WG'09, CEO, Chairman, & Co-Founder, Rubrik

Penn Venture Lab Launches Initiative to Expand Opportunities in Entrepreneurship

via Kelly Yang, The Daily Pennsylvanian

Wharton Scale School: Perspectives on Startup Acquisitions

Wharton Scale School: Perspectives on Startup Acquisitions

VC Funding in Today's Market | Professor Ethan Mollick – Wharton Scale School

VC Funding in Today's Market | Professor Ethan Mollick – Wharton Scale School