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Meet Andrew Ferraro and Ben Cunningham, founders of CU Â鶹ӰԺ’s VC Club and startup initiative, Startup Mill. Both are studying Finance at the Leeds School of Business. Ben and Andrew created their initiative while remote during COVID-19. The VC Club is a student-led organization designed to bridge the gap between...

Meet Tomas Schugurensky, a senior at CU Â鶹ӰԺ and CEO of Built Different Studios , a boutique lighting business. Tomas is studying Environmental Design with a focus in architecture, as well as pursuing his Architectural Lighting Design Certificate offered through the Architectural Engineering program. Tomas created Built Different Studios because...

Meet Juan Esteban Duque , a CU Â鶹ӰԺ Alumnus and founder of Tupró , a platform that provides a business portal to services and professionals in Colombia. Juan grew up in Colombia and lived in China before coming to the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ to pursue a degree in...

Meet Marlo Vernon , CU Leeds School of Business alumna and CEO of CarePenguin , a company bringing non-invasive activity-monitoring technology to market. Marlo studied Marketing and got her Entrepreneurship Certificate through the Deming Center at CU Â鶹ӰԺ! CarePenguin Growing up in an entrepreneurial environment, Marlo’s family was always building...

Meet Tim Visos-Ely, a 2019 CU Â鶹ӰԺ alum and co-founder of StrideTech , a company that produces an embedded walker attachment that provides real-time haptic feedback when incorrect walker use is detected. Tim developed StrideTech by taking advantage of the many entrepreneurial resources at CU Â鶹ӰԺ! Tim utilized Design for...

Meet Alex Mulvaney, CEO and co-founder of ShineOn , a company providing a unique spin on the typical bike light. Alex graduated from CU Â鶹ӰԺ in 2019 with a BS in Aerospace Engineering. Alex and his co-founders, Katherine Vega and Taylor Brooks-Murphy, have a combined history of 10 years of...

Meet Brad Werner, Faculty Director and Instructor of Entrepreneurship at CU Â鶹ӰԺ’s Leeds School of Business. He is also co-host of the Creative Distillation Podcast (season 2 out now!) Each episode focuses on a recent entrepreneurial study and highlights how the academic research is valuable to not only students, but...

Meet Joni Klippert, Founder and CEO of StackHawk, Inc. , a software company that makes it easy for developers to find and fix application security bugs. Joni is a Colorado native and a CU Â鶹ӰԺ alumna. After graduating from CU Â鶹ӰԺ in December 2004, she worked for a company called...

Get Seed Funding (GSF) is a micro-funding opportunity for CU Â鶹ӰԺ undergraduate and graduate students. While providing up to $500 in funding for entrepreneurial ideas in the making, GSF accepts applications on a rolling basis each semester. We sat down with Henry Kvietok, leader of the GSF committee, to discuss...

Meet Maggie Grout, a Senior at CU Â鶹ӰԺ studying Business Management and Entrepreneurship. Maggie is the founder of the nonprofit, Thinking Huts , which she started at age 15 after being fascinated with the idea of leveraging technology to create architectural solutions that increase educational opportunities around the world. Thinking...