CWRU Entrepreneurs are making national waves in entrepreneurship.
From CES Las Vegas to IFA Berlin, our founders are building, making, innovating and providing solutions to a number of problems and issues across the globe.
Take a look at our profiles of a few CWRU Entrepreneurs to learn more about how the CWRU community is making a difference and thinking outside of the box.
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Founder Profiles
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June 10, 2026A conversation with Jordan Swisher (CWR ’15), co-founder of a chemicals startup in stealth mode -
June 08, 2026Path Robotics—an AI and robotics company co-founded by Case Western Reserve University alumni brothers Alex (CWR ’09; GRS ’12, mechanical engineering) and Andy Lonsberry (GRS ’21, mechanical engineering)—was featured this week in The New York Times in a story about Ohio’s rise in advanced… -
May 25, 2026A crystal Katie Colbaugh helped grow is currently sitting on Mars. It rode there aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, which touched down on the Red Planet in February 2021 and has been searching for signs of ancient life ever since. Colbaugh and her colleagues at Gooch & Housego—a Highland Heights,… -
May 03, 2026Asclepii, a biotech startup founded by Case Western Reserve University alum Franco Kraiselburd (CWR ’24)—and currently based in CWRU’s 11000 Cedar Startup Incubator—was recently featured on cleveland.com for its work developing technologies to improve care for chronic wounds.Kraiselburd founded… -
April 28, 2026A conversation with serial entrepreneur Amr Salahieh (CSE ’89), founder and CEO of Shifamed -
April 21, 2026Fifteen student-led teams competed for more than $45,000 in prizes across three tracks -
April 15, 2026A conversation with Ozan Akkus, PhD, engineering professor and entrepreneur, CWRU alum, and co-founder of CollaMedix -
April 06, 2026As he reaches the end of his educational journey, Reid Tileston reflects on his view from the mountaintop—and aims impossibly higher.“I want to be the world’s best teacher of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA),” he said. “And I want to inspire my students to have the confidence to do hard… -
April 01, 2026Every time a software team releases an update, there’s a new risk of something else breaking. CWRU alum and entrepreneur Michael Rosenfield (CWR ’17), saw the problem firsthand at Google—and watched engineering teams manually check that nothing had gone wrong after every change.His San Francisco… -
March 23, 2026After studying the limits of blood cultures, Pavan Kota (CWR ’17) built a company designed to deliver results in hours instead of days