By Matt Stadler C’18/W’18, Co-founder of Quixaro
Matt Stadler received an award from the M&T Innovation Fund to help found his company, Quixaro. We asked him how he’s using the award to work on his startup this summer.
As all high school students know, doing homework sucks. We founded Quixaro to make homework suck less.
By Andrea Vidler WG’15, Founder of LocalAventura
While she was a student, Andrea Vidler received an award from the M&T Innovation Fund to help found her company, LocalAventura, with fellow Penn students Eugena Brown WG’15 and Cait Breslin C’15. She was also a member of the Venture Initiation Program. We checked in to find out how her startup is doing today:
By Ashwin Baweja, ENG’15/GEN’15/W’15 Founder of HashFav
There are an abundance of firsthand accounts that document the uncertainty that mires the entrepreneurial experience, but written words alone cannot fully capture the doubts that entrepreneurs face when building a startup. Luckily, the Penn Wharton Innovation Fund is a pillar of support for early entrepreneurs and helped me and my startup when we needed it most.
During his time at Wharton, Aaron Goldstein received the President’s Innovation Prize, a Wharton Venture Award, a Wharton Innovation Fund award, a Weiss Tech House Innovation Fund award and a Snider Seed Award, Fever Smart won Second Prize in the 2015 Wharton Business Plan Competition, and he was a member of the Venture Initiation Program. Before he graduated last month, we asked him a few questions about what it was like being a student entrepreneur. Here’s what he said:
By Mike Friedman WG’16
How I used the Wharton Innovation Fund to get my company, dlux, up and running!
Here’s how our many programs helped one entrepreneurial student launch his own business:
Just imagine what you could do with mentors, workshops, office space, awards, prize money, a strong entrepreneurial community, and access to our amazing alumni network…
