The Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Alumni Achievement Award honors a Penn graduate who exemplifies entrepreneurial leadership, innovation, and community building. This recognition celebrates alumni who not only lead boldly in their ventures but also give back—through mentorship, investment, or thought leadership—strengthening the Venture Lab ecosystem for future entrepreneurs. Recipients are chosen by the Venture Lab Advisory Board.
Our 2025 honoree is Tory Burch, C'88, Executive Chairman & Chief Creative Officer of Tory Burch LLC and Founder of the Tory Burch Foundation
The Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Alumni Achievement Award honors a Penn graduate who exemplifies entrepreneurial leadership, innovation, and community building. This recognition celebrates alumni who not only lead boldly in their ventures but also give back—through mentorship, investment, or thought leadership—strengthening the Venture Lab ecosystem for future entrepreneurs. Recipients are chosen by the Venture Lab Advisory Board.
Our 2025 honoree is Tory Burch, C'88, Executive Chairman & Chief Creative Officer of Tory Burch LLC and Founder of the Tory Burch Foundation
The Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Alumni Achievement Award honors a Penn graduate who exemplifies entrepreneurial leadership, innovation, and community building. This recognition celebrates alumni who not only lead boldly in their ventures but also give back—through mentorship, investment, or thought leadership—strengthening the Venture Lab ecosystem for future entrepreneurs. Recipients are chosen by the Venture Lab Advisory Board.
Our 2025 honoree is Tory Burch, C'88, Executive Chairman & Chief Creative Officer of Tory Burch LLC and Founder of the Tory Burch Foundation
The Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Alumni Achievement Award honors a Penn graduate who exemplifies entrepreneurial leadership, innovation, and community building. This recognition celebrates alumni who not only lead boldly in their ventures but also give back—through mentorship, investment, or thought leadership—strengthening the Venture Lab ecosystem for future entrepreneurs. Recipients are chosen by the Venture Lab Advisory Board.
Our 2025 honoree is Tory Burch, C'88, Executive Chairman & Chief Creative Officer of Tory Burch LLC and Founder of the Tory Burch Foundation
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.
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.