Success Stories
Invent Penn State celebrated the opening of two new LaunchBoxes to support entrepreneurship and innovation across the commonwealth. Penn State Fayette and Penn State Mont Alto are the most recent campuses to open innovation hubs. On April 3, Penn State President Eric J. Barron and Penn State Mont Alto Chancellor…
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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdp7Lipl1vY#action=share[/embed] As the summer travel season kicks into high gear, Penn State startup CondioTec have found a potential solution to those unwanted guests that can turn a relaxing vacation into a skin-crawling nightmare. Anyone who has had to deal with a bedbug infestation knows that once the bloodthirsty bugs…
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Monday, January 23, Penn State alum and Project Vive founder, Mary Elizabeth McCulloch, helped announce a $1 million grant from PNC Bank to Happy Valley LaunchBox to help local entrepreneurs and innovators in State College receive the same support McCulloch received. “I had a dream to give a voice to…
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April 19-20, 2018 hundreds of investors, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and startups converge on Penn State’s University Park Campus for the second Invent Penn State Venture and IP Conference. The conference is jam packed with entrepreneurial and innovation activities--student pitches, startup pitches for venture capital investment, research panels and resources for…
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As part of its Invent Penn State at the Capitol, Penn State University announced four new $50,000 innovation hub seed grants designed to bolster entrepreneurship and economic development in communities surrounding Penn State campuses. With today’s announcement, the University’s effort grows from 17 to 21 innovation hubs across Pennsylvania–an undertaking…
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Hunter Swisher, founder of Phospholutions and Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences 2016 graduate, has been gaining notoriety for his ability to penetrate the golf course turf industry’s historically closed off network. Swisher’s root lengthening product, RhizoSorb, has proven results after being tested on Penn State’s White Course, but results…
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Reflexion Interactive Technologies, founded by Penn State junior Matt Roda, has been nominated by Engadget as one of the best startups of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show. Reflexion Interactive's "Reflexion Edge" device is a foldable, lightweight panel that displays lights the user touches to gauge their response times and other…
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. —Happy Valley LaunchBox has received a $1 million grant from PNC bank enabling the innovation hub to continue providing early-stage startups with support and resources to build sustainable, scalable businesses and develop viable plans for growth. To recognize PNC’s support, the downtown State College innovation hub will…
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At the Penn State Conference Center Hotel during CARBON 2016—the World Conference on Carbon, Morgan Advanced Materials, a U.K.-based global leader in engineered carbon and ceramic materials, announced a new industrial partnership with Penn State to establish a local research and development center in Innovation Park at Penn State. “For…
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