CMU T&E - Updates for June 2025 Pt.2
Virtual fireside chats, post-AI SUS afterparty, Agentic RAG security, new website, and new EchoHer events!
Hey Tartans,
Can you believe we’re halfway through the year?
This month we needed a June pt.2 Newsletter — scroll for details! 🚀
Virtual | 🌏 Scaling Startups with Impact: A Fireside Chat with Aaron Tan & Dhruvil Sanghvi
📅 Wednesday, June 18
🕣 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM ET
📍Online (Zoom)
🏷️ Non-T&E Organized
Join us for a conversation with Aaron Tan (CEO & Co-Founder, Carro) and Dhruvil Sanghvi (CEO & Founder, LogiNext), two CMU alumni.
From AI and digital infrastructure to resilient leadership in times of disruption, they’ll share lessons from their journeys building high-growth companies in fast-moving markets.
Moderated by CMU professor Meredith Meyer Grelli, Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurship Initiatives.
What We’ll Cover:
Scaling tech startups in fast-moving markets like Southeast Asia and India.
AI, logistics automation, and infrastructure in emerging economies.
Lessons in leadership, global expansion, and resilient innovation.
Moderated by Prof. Meredith Meyer Grelli, Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurship Initiatives at CMU.
🎲 T&E SF | AI SUS Afterparty @ Replo (YC S21) HQ
📅 Wednesday, June 18
🕖 7:00 – 9:00 PM PT
📍 Replo HQ, 800 Market St 6, San Francisco, CA
🏷️ Co-hosted with Replo (YC S21)
In town for YC AI Startup School or working in SF for the summer?
Join the Replo (YC S21) crew and CMU T&E alumni for a casual evening of music, poker, board games, Nintendo Switch, and dinner in downtown SF. Whether you're shipping AI apps, building side projects, or just down to hang, swing by.
Invite cool builders—Replo's offering a $10K referral bonus for new hires.
Careers & Referral Info
Virtual | 🔐 Lunch & Learn: Secure Your Agentic RAG Chatbots
📅 Tuesday, June 24
🕘 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT
📍Virtual (YouTube)
🏷️ Non-T&E Organized
Your Agentic RAG chatbot could be leaking data.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) chatbots are powerful—but when they access enterprise data, security isn’t optional. Join two CMU VentureBridge founders for a fast-paced, insight-packed session on how to build permission-aware agentic RAG chatbots that scale securely.
Saurabh Shintre (Founder, Realm Labs) & Vishakha Gupta ( Co-founder, ApertureData) will guide you through a proven architecture combining Realms’s RAG security framework and ApertureDB’s vector-graph multimodal AI database—ideal for building secure, scalable, and high-performing Agentic RAG chatbots.
In this session, you will learn:
How to sync and index complex permissions across platforms.
Why vector search alone is not enough for secure Agentic RAG AI chatbots.
How Realm + ApertureDB enforce real-time access control for every query.
Whether you are building internal assistants or enterprise chatbots, this is your blueprint for doing it the right way.
Can’t make it to the Lunch & Learn?
We’ve got you covered. Register and we will send you a link with the replay once it is available.
👩🚀 EchoHer Events for Women & Non-Binary Founders
EchoHer is part of the CMU Project Olympus Incubator Program
🔬 Women in AI Showcase
📅 Friday, June 20
🕠 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM PT
📍San Francisco
🏷️ Non-T&E Organized
Join us for short demos from 5 trailblazing founders, live VC feedback, and real community.
Featuring Founders from: DigiLocker, Compliagence Solutions, Syntropi, PowerYou, Meowy.AI
With VCs from: Hat-Trick Capital, Cota Capital
💸 How to Value a Pre‑Revenue Startup
📅 Tuesday, June 18
🕘 9:00 – 10:00 AM PT
📍Virtual (Zoom)
🏷️ Non-T&E Organized
Join Anthony Rose, CEO of SeedLegals, for a practical session on valuation, cap tables, and early investor strategies.
Especially helpful for first-time and underrepresented founders.
💬 Connect & Learn: Women Founders, Funders & Leaders
📅 Monday, June 23
🕔 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PT
📍Trellis, San Francisco
A casual, no-agenda evening for authentic connection among women in the startup world. Coffee, snacks, and deep convos included.
🚀 We’ve launched our new website!
Check out the refreshed CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship site at cmute.io — now with a revamped Jobs Board where you can post or find opportunities across the CMU startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
🔗 Stay Connected
Want to co-host an event, recommend a speaker, or support the community? Drop us a note at cmutehq@gmail.com or join the Slack at cmute.io
Let’s keep building this thing together 💥
See you soon,
—The CMU T&E Team