Evening of Entrepreneurship: Sustaining the Resilience of Innovation
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley invites you to Evening of Entrepreneurship, this year themed “Sustaining the Resilience of Innovation.” Join us on Wednesday, October 29 at 4 PM as Sheryl Root and the Integrated Innovation Institute host a showcase of breakthrough ideas and forward-thinking strategies designed to keep innovation thriving in every sector.
This event brings together startup founders, industry leaders, venture capitalists, faculty, alumni, students, and mentors for an evening of networking, discovery, and celebration. Explore interactive startup exhibitions featuring student-led ventures and alumni founders. Guests will engage directly with innovators, and connect with the dynamic CMU-SV community.
Enjoy curated hors d’oeuvres and refreshments as we showcase breakthrough ideas and strategies shaping the future of innovation.
Learn about our alumni presenters:
"The only way you win is execution. Find a problem that you're struggling with. Build a solution that you would pay money for and build it for the rest of the world."
Suresh (Co-Founder, MSSM '24) and Akash Thakur (Co-Founder) took their frustration with wasted commute time and built a voice AI agent that people actually love using. April is a voice-first AI Executive Assistant for email and calendaring. Read more here.
"I’ve always believed that the most powerful tools are the ones that quietly change lives- not with noise, but with precision."
Liu (CTO, CMU M.Sc. MSSM '21) is building the next generation of human-centered AI ecosystem that learns, adapts, and evolves, empowering education to become a lifelong journey of connection, curiosity, and empathy.
"The future isn't just about building fast, it's about building right, with fully preserved context."
Bhatnagar (CTO, CMU M.Sc. ECE '17) and Evelyn Zoubi (CEO) are solving a problem they know firsthand: context fragmentation at enterprises in the age of AI. Una AI preserves critical product context as enterprises ship 5x faster with AI coding tools.