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Apply for Microgrant Programs to support your startup
Case Western Reserve University students, alumni and faculty who are forming or growing a startup company and are looking for funding to move their innovations forward are invited to apply for the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship’s Microgrant Programs. In addition to a financial award that can…
JT Sayre
From the South Pole to startup life: How a CWRU alum is using AI to improve wireless networks
A conversation with James “JT” Sayre (CWR ’03; GRS ’14, physics), co-founder and chief technology officer of eino
Eva-Jessy Guech
Fellowship opportunity for CWRU undergraduates fuels curiosity
Undergraduate’s Veale Snyder Fellowship experience is building a foundation for what’s next
Jordan Swisher
Can a startup create the next big step in organic chemistry with electricity? A CWRU alum is trying
A conversation with Jordan Swisher (CWR ’15), co-founder of a chemicals startup in stealth mode
Alex and Andy Lonsberry
CWRU startup success Path Robotics featured in The New York Times
Path 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…
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Creative Destruction Lab launches CDL-Cleveland in partnership with Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals
CDL-Cleveland will host a new Healthcare Delivery stream—the first CDL Site anchored to a health system—giving science-based ventures direct access to a clinical environment
Katie Colbaugh
From Mars rover crystals to machine learning: a CWRU alum’s AI built for materials manufacturing
A 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…
Michael Goldberg
Ten years on the CNBC Disruptor 50: Goldberg helps select 2026 list
Veale Institute executive director has spent a decade helping shape CNBC’s annual ranking—and watching the list transform around him
Franco Kraiselburd
CWRU alum’s biotech startup featured for work to improve wound healing
Asclepii, 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…
Amr Salahieh
From Syria to Silicon Valley, a CWRU alum built a medical device empire
A conversation with serial entrepreneur Amr Salahieh (CSE ’89), founder and CEO of Shifamed