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Meet Andrew Ferraro and Ben Cunningham, founders of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s VC Club and startup initiative, Startup Mill. Both are studying Finance at the Leeds School of Business. Ben and Andrew created their initiative while remote during COVID-19. The VC Club is a student-led organization designed to bridge the gap between...

Meet Tomas Schugurensky, a senior at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder and CEO of Built Different Studios , a boutique lighting business. Tomas is studying Environmental Design with a focus in architecture, as well as pursuing his Architectural Lighting Design Certificate offered through the Architectural Engineering program. Tomas created Built Different Studios because...

Meet Juan Esteban Duque , a ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder Alumnus and founder of Tupró , a platform that provides a business portal to services and professionals in Colombia. Juan grew up in Colombia and lived in China before coming to the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder to pursue a degree in...

Meet Marlo Vernon , ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Leeds School of Business alumna and CEO of CarePenguin , a company bringing non-invasive activity-monitoring technology to market. Marlo studied Marketing and got her Entrepreneurship Certificate through the Deming Center at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder! CarePenguin Growing up in an entrepreneurial environment, Marlo’s family was always building...

Meet Tim Visos-Ely, a 2019 ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder alum and co-founder of StrideTech , a company that produces an embedded walker attachment that provides real-time haptic feedback when incorrect walker use is detected. Tim developed StrideTech by taking advantage of the many entrepreneurial resources at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder! Tim utilized Design for...

Meet Alex Mulvaney, CEO and co-founder of ShineOn , a company providing a unique spin on the typical bike light. Alex graduated from ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder in 2019 with a BS in Aerospace Engineering. Alex and his co-founders, Katherine Vega and Taylor Brooks-Murphy, have a combined history of 10 years of...

Meet Brad Werner, Faculty Director and Instructor of Entrepreneurship at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. He is also co-host of the Creative Distillation Podcast (season 2 out now!) Each episode focuses on a recent entrepreneurial study and highlights how the academic research is valuable to not only students, but...

Meet Joni Klippert, Founder and CEO of StackHawk, Inc. , a software company that makes it easy for developers to find and fix application security bugs. Joni is a ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ native and a ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder alumna. After graduating from ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder in December 2004, she worked for a company called...

Get Seed Funding (GSF) is a micro-funding opportunity for ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder undergraduate and graduate students. While providing up to $500 in funding for entrepreneurial ideas in the making, GSF accepts applications on a rolling basis each semester. We sat down with Henry Kvietok, leader of the GSF committee, to discuss...

Meet Maggie Grout, a Senior at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder studying Business Management and Entrepreneurship. Maggie is the founder of the nonprofit, Thinking Huts , which she started at age 15 after being fascinated with the idea of leveraging technology to create architectural solutions that increase educational opportunities around the world. Thinking...