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Columbia/Wharton startup “Sportaneous” wins White House “Champions of Change” Award
Omar Haroun, MBA candidate at Columbia Business School, and Aaron Royston, MBA candidate at the Wharton School, and their startup Sportaneous were named “Champions of Change” by the White House this week. According to its founders Omar and Aaron Royston Sportaneous is a mobile app that, “…makes it easy for busy people to get physically active … Continue reading
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You read that right. In a press release issued by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the school reports that 11 firms raise a combined $85 million in venture capital this year, from firms such as Accel Partners, Sequioa Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Groupon’s venture arm, Lightbank. The new companies range in industry … Continue reading
Today we read in Charlottesville rag The Daily Progress about UVA-Darden’s summer incubator for MBA entrepreneurs. The Batten Institute provides a $13,000 stipend as well as other support (e.g. speaker series, group discussions) over the summer to students who are starting up their own businesses. The article profiles two entrepreneurs – Jacqueline Wilde, a student with … Continue reading
Springworks, a San-Francisco based non-profit focused on increasing diversity in the venture community, has opened its Scholar applications to students starting business school in the Fall of 2011. Springworks was founded by Kellogg alum, Jorge Calderon, an investment management professional and social impact evangelist. Applications are due by midnight (PDT) on July 15, 2011. Below is … Continue reading
A little while ago we posted about Ginger.io, a mobile app that monitors phone usage behavior, and by transitive property, mental health. Today we learned from Bostinnovation about Harvard Business School student Cy Khormaee and his social enterprise Lifelens, a hardware + software point-of-care solution that can detect the presence malaria using a single drop of blood. … Continue reading
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- A blog post from IEDP (we think it stands for "International Executive Development Providers") reports that Oxford's Said Business School has partnered with the Goldman Sachs Foundation and the 10,000 Women Initiative to educate 88 female entrepreneurs - including earthquake victims - in the Chengdu region of China (yes, in case you were wondering, that *is* where the pandas are). Other participating schools include the IE Business School in Brazil, and Columbia Business School in Tanzania and Kenya.
- Techcrunch reports that Accel Partners, no stranger to the space of online payment platforms, is investing $34 million dollars in Braintree. The company's client list reads like a who's who in the Web space, including: LivingSocial, OpenTable and 37Signals. Braintree was founded by Bryan Johnson (Booth '07), who won Booth's New Venture Challenge his second year at business school. Congrats to Braintree, Bryan and the Polsky Center!
- MIT's Technology Review posted this week about Ginger.io, an app that collects data from your phone usage (bursts of frantic texting, for example) to warn users or doctors of potential illness or manic behavior. Sloan student Karan Singh is a co-founder. Privacy issues abound, but it's still pretty cool.
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