Success Stories
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Have an idea you want to turn into a business? Applications for the Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank Fall 2023 Idea TestLab are open until midnight, September 18, 2023. Idea TestLab is a 4-week program that helps participants determine if their startup idea can…
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - From bridal shops to board game stores to metal roofing contractors, over 1,400 small businesses across 64 Pennsylvania counties have received legal support from the Penn State Law Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic (EAC) in the past year alone. Staffed with 24 law students and three full-time supervising…
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Seven teams of Penn State student startup founders wrapped up what turned out to be an impactful summer for their businesses. Invent Penn State’s Summer Founders Program, which provides each student team with a $15,000 grant to work on their startup, social good, or nonprofit idea over the summer at…
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Domenic Contrino and Gabrielle Giampietro have only just begun their graduate research at Penn State as environmental engineering master's students – but they have already jumped right in to finding real-world problems their research could solve. Contrino and Giampietro are researching how to make the carbon electrode components of batteries…
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Ready to start building your business? Applications for the Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank Fall 2023 FastTrack Accelerator program are open with a deadline set for midnight, September 4, 2023. FastTrack Accelerator is a 10-week program that helps early-stage startups better refine their target…
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Venture Connection, an investor-to-entrepreneur matchmaking event, is now accepting applications. The event will take place during the Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference Oct. 16-17 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Venture Connection pairs entrepreneurs and investors based on industry and capital needs, among other key criteria. Entrepreneurs…
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The Penn State Small Business Development Center (SBDC) recently held a Creative Entrepreneur Roundtable at the Pennsylvania College for Technology to highlight resources and programs that assist creative entrepreneurs, which include those undertaking ventures in music, art, and photography. The Penn State SBDC supports business owners who currently run or…
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A team of researchers in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science aims to enable healthcare and extended reality — which encompasses virtual, augmented and mixed reality — with their smart sensing ring, OmniRing. The ring uses both inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors, which can capture…
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UNIVERSITY PARK - State College community member Aquito Young, like a lot of parents, would tuck his nine-year-old son into bed each night. However, when Aquito would go check up on him hours later, he would notice the covers had fallen off his son’s legs and feet. For Aquito, this…
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