Success Stories
When Birgitt Boschitch launched into her sixty second pitch at the 2018 Allegheny Cleantech University Prize Collegiate Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, her opening grabbed the audience’s attention. “Poop is a serious problem,” she said. “And it’s an especially big problem when it comes to water conservation,…
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The 2018 Invent Penn State Venture and IP Conference Tech Tournament featured a collection of the best startups utilizing Penn State technology. Biomaterial technology startup Aleo BME Inc. was one of the few startups selected to participate and compete for over $160,000 in prize money—ultimately winning third place and $25,000.…
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When an entrepreneur needs help taking an idea to the next level in Pennsylvania, there are few better places to get assistance than in one of the Ben Franklin Technology Partners offices. One of the ways Ben Franklin assists entrepreneurs and business across the commonwealth is through its startup accelerator…
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Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank hosted a demo event April 11 at its facility in downtown State College for six startups that completed its inaugural 20-week FastTrack Accelerator program. “This year, we extended our accelerator program from 10 to 20 weeks, added the opportunity to obtain modest funding…
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Yesterday at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center, Penn State and Imerys, a global leader in mineral-based industrial solutions, celebrated the signing of a five-year Master Sponsored Research Agreement. The agreement expands the company’s current relationship with the University's Materials Research Institute and Penn State Behrend’s engineering program to…
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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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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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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 gain…
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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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