CMU T&E - Updates for March
March Updates
📢 Welcome, Tartans!
🌱 Hope spring allergies have not been to bad recently. We've got some exciting events and announcements coming up!
This month, we’re bringing you:
A NYC Happy Hour to connect with fellow CMU alumni & entrepreneurs
An exclusive Founders’ Salon in SF, hosted in partnership with Rho
A final reminder to apply for the CMU VentureBridge Summer Accelerator—just 10 days left!
Update: We’re moving to Substack in April! 📩
Scroll down for all the details and we hope to see you at an event soon!
🍻 T&E + Venturebridge NYC: Happy Hour!
📅 Date: This Wednesday, March 26, 2025
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
📍 Location: Fools Gold NYC – 145 E Houston St, New York, NY
📋 Registration: Free (limited space)
Meet fellow Tartans in NYC for a relaxed evening of networking, good conversations, and great drinks! Whether you’re a founder, aspiring entrepreneur, product builder, or just interested in startups, this is the perfect chance to connect.
🔹 Expand your network with CMU founders, VCs, engineers & builders
🔹 Learn from others about their startup journeys & challenges
🔹 Bring a friend—know a fellow CMU alum in NYC? Invite them too!
We're hosing this in collab with CMU VentureBridge (VB), an initiative of the CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, helps CMU alumni founders by providing them funding, office space in San Francisco, New York, and Pittsburgh, access to a large network and help with startup growth.
Since 2018, the program has supported 61 CMU alumni-founded startups who are collectively valued at over half a billion dollars. If your founding team has one CMU alumni founder, you are eligible to apply for funding.
The VB '25 application is currently open and closes March 31st, 2025.
Contact: Rachel or Will with any questions
💡 T&E Bay Area: Founders' Salon @ Rho House (SF)
📅 Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2025
⏰ Time: 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
📍 Location: 930 Ashbury St, San Francisco, CA
📋 Registration: Approval Required – Limited Spots!
Join us for an exclusive Founders' Salon hosted by CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship and Rho, a leading financial services provider for startups. This intimate, approval-required gathering at the Rho House will bring together founders from all stages for meaningful conversations, networking, and insights.
Enjoy food and refreshments while connecting with fellow entrepreneurs in a relaxed, welcoming environment at Rho house.
Spots are limited so RSVP soon. We'll be approving applicants starting the week before the event.
About Rho
From two-person startups to public companies, Rho is the banking platform with everything businesses need to manage cash, control spend, and automate finance busywork. Rho offers corporate cards, banking, treasury, expense management, AP, accounting automation, and more in one integrated platform backed by award-winning support. Rho is a fintech company, not a bank. Checking and card services are provided by Webster Bank, N.A., member FDIC; savings account services are provided by American Deposit Management Co. and its partner banks.
Questions? Reach out to Miranda Nover or Kevin Fang from the T&E team. We look forward to meeting you soon!
📢 Big News: We’re Moving to Substack!
Starting April 2025, we’re transitioning from Mailchimp to Substack for our primary newsletter! 🎉
Here’s why:
Easier newsletter editing and creation
Supports multimodal content (blogs, podcasts)
Better content experience—easier to read & engage with online
A lot cheaper than Mailchimp
More community features
No action should be needed—you’ll automatically be switched over!
You can expect a welcome email today—if you don’t receive it, you can manually subscribe at cmutechentrepreneur.substack.com.
We’re excited for this next chapter—see you there!
⏳ CMU VentureBridge Summer Accelerator – 10 Days Left to Apply
The CMU VentureBridge Summer Accelerator is designed exclusively for CMU alumni to help scale their startups with:
$25,000 seed funding
Office space in SF, NYC, or Pittsburgh
Mentorship from experienced CMU entrepreneurs & VCs
Connections to top investors & industry experts
📅 Deadline: March 31st, 2025
Eligibility: Your team must include at least one CMU-affiliated alumni founder, and if you’re a current student, you must graduate by Spring 2024.
If you have questions, reach out to:
📩 Aleksandar Petkov (Program Manager) | apetkov@andrew.cmu.edu
📩 Namrata Banerjee (Program Director) | nmalik@andrew.cmu.edu
Thanks for reading! We'll have one last Mailchimp newsletter before switching fully over to Substack.
Hope to see you at a T&E event soon!
The CMU T&E Team 🎉