FOUNDER STORIES
Pivots, Pilots, and Progress
Portfolio founder stories shaped by learning, resilience, and momentum
Building a company is rarely a straight line. These stories and case studies highlight the real moments in the founder's journey, from early pilots and hard pivots to the lessons learned along the way. Together, these experiences test resilience and help turn ideas into lasting companies poised for growth.
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- Education
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- IoT
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- Materials Science/Biomaterials
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- Medical Devices
- Neuroscience
- Packaging
- Pharmacy
- Robotics
- Social Impact
- Software/AI
- Space
- Sports Technology
- Supply Chain/Logistics
- Transportation
- Virtual Reality
Program
Robots can navigate environments and perform repetitive motions with increasing sophistication, yet they still ...
The Problem: Healthcare's Plastic Waste Crisis
When Melinda Lee was a pharmacy student, she handled thousands of ...
Engineer and entrepreneur Georgia Crowther has built a career solving complex problems across aerospace, advanced ...
A Dorm-room Diagnosis
Guinness, founder of Revitalize Eye Care, was a student at the University of Pittsburgh ...
Sports performance data has long measured athletes in ways that do not reflect how they actually play. Izzy Hunter ...
Pat O’Donnell, founder of Shelfmark, hit pause on his software consultancy gig in 2022, when the opportunity to ...
Spaceflight is unforgiving, where even the smallest component malfunction can cascade into a mission-ending event. ...
Symmetric Health Solutions set out to fix one of healthcare’s least glamorous and most expensive problems: the ...
Modern healthcare is moving beyond traditional hospital walls, extending care delivery into patient-centered ...
Vaera Skincare is building a handheld microneedling pen engineered to close the gap between expensive in-office ...
With cyclist fatalities climbing in cities and infrastructure lagging, Velo AI is confronting the urgent challenge ...
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