startups

Do you have an idea you'd like to pursue or a problem you'd like to solve but don't know where to start or who to start with? Startup Weekend Cleveland gives students the opportunity to look for a team, create a prototype of their idea, validate their business idea, and receive feedback from experi...

When you try on an outfit at a retail shop and it doesn’t fit, you can try on another size. But what if you’re purchasing traditional clothing from your native country thousands of miles away? After watching her mother struggle to get clothing from Nigeria, Chioma Onukwuire, a recent graduate from ...

Entrepreneurship Immersion Week is an intensive academic experience for undergraduates from all disciplines. The program generates the skills needed to help develop new business ideas and applies these skills in a team-based business competition. Teams of five students from 11 local colleges and uni...

Two teams of Case Western Reserve University students were the top two competitors in the Collegiate Division at the second annual Medical Capital Innovation Competition. RADIOME, a startup which seeks to predict whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy will benefit cancer patients to reduce ineffective tr...

Those with an idea to solve a social issue in the community are invited to participate in GiveBackHack Friday, May 11, to Sunday, May 13, at StartMart (50 Public Square). Over the weekend, participants will team up with others and find the resources to make their ideas a reality. GiveBackHack is a ...

The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Case Western Reserve University an additional $500,000 grant for a campus-based translational research fund to help faculty researchers advance and commercialize their innovations. The new round of funding follows an initial award of $500,000 in 2016, ...

On March 15, six startups—each with at least one current Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) student or recent alum—will pitch professional investors for $50,000 in prizes in the first-ever “demo day” of the Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition. Register for a free ticket to this on-campus eve...

Inspirit, a startup team composed of Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Institute of Art students, won the Startup Weekend Cleveland with their idea for a real-time, hydration-monitoring device. The monitor intends to improve quality of life for the elderly and reduce nursing home neglige...

Case Western Reserve University students and recent alumni are invited to apply for the Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition, in which venture teams can pitch their business concepts. The Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition is open to ventures with at least one founder who is enrolled as a stu...

The hardest part of starting up is starting out. At Startup Weekend Cleveland, you'll be immersed in the ideal environment for startup magic to happen. Startup Weekend Cleveland (Oct. 20-22) is a 54-hour event where attendees pitch ideas, form teams and start companies. It is a place for budding en...