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Blue Devils are 🔥. Check out May's Month of Impact from Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Funding updates: 💰Front Porch Venture Partners, founded by Joe Mancini MBA ‘12, Nikin Shah MBA ‘12, and Greggory Bordes MBA ‘12 successfully closed its $20 million Fund II. 💰CoreWeave announced a $1.1B Series C round led by Coatue. Nitin Agrawal MBA ‘07 is Chief Financial Officer. 💰SchedulerAI, founded by Mike Bell BSE ‘11 and Maddie Bell ‘11, raised $2.8 million in seed funding led by Drive Capital. 💰Crimson Scientific, founded by Michael Cetta, MD FACEP FACHE BSE ‘90 P ’23, took home the $10,000 second-place prize at the MIT100k2024 Launch competition. 💰GrantScout, co-founded by Felicia Chen ‘20, secured $3.4 million in seed funding. Progress updates: 📈eBoxchain , co-founded by Suraj Chanda MBA ‘18 and Venkataraman Palabindala MBA ‘19 joined the Primordial community. 📈NatureDots was presented by co-founder and director Snehal Verma MEM ‘23 at the OneEarthSummit in Hong Kong. 📈Jobz has been launched by Tal Huss MBA ‘15. 📈Fleet Collision Services has been acquired by Adam Thompson MBA '21 in a self-funded transaction. Adam will serve as President and Owner of the company. Media Updates: 📰BioSpace announced that STAAR Surgical has named Nancy Sabin BSE ‘92 as Chief Marketing Officer. 📰Ernst & Young LLP named Aaron Schumm MBA ‘07 as one of 44 finalists for the Entrepreneur of the Year New York Award. 📰Poets and Quants recognized Arya Diwase MPP/MBA ’23, founder of Himayat Pune, among the Best and Brightest. 📰GrepBeat featured Bern and its co-founders Avihan Jain ‘27 and Conner Aldrich ‘27.
Justin Bertelsen
1mo
You love to see it! Go Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship!
Avihan Jain
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🙌🙌
Buddy Triplett
1mo
Congrats Jobz!
What an inspiring list!! 💙
Shwetabh S Verma
1mo
Woah! What a month, Jamie!
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1moThis is a great update! It's been such a challenge, for so long, to see funding coming from the RTP ecosystem. It seems we're rolling right along. Now let's see if we can continue to get an even higher success rate! Go go go!