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The 12th edition of Schulich Startup Night (SSN) attracted nearly 300 students, alumni and industry professionals yesterday. This bi-annual event gives students and alumni an opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a panel of top industry professionals for a chance to win a $5000 cash prize. Chris Carder, Schulich Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Schulich Startup Night […]
Posted onSchulich Alumni Lands a Dragons’ Den Deal
This past summer, Richa Gupta (MBA ’10) made time in her busy schedule to return to Schulich to speak to prospective students and record an episode of Schulich Startups Podcast with our entrepreneur-in-residence, Chris Carder. “From doing my MBA at Schulich to working at General Mills, I learned a lot about business management,” shared Gupta. […]
Posted onSchulich Undergrad’s Startup Lands Funding from Amazon
After competing on The Amazing Race Canada: Heroes Edition as a Season 6 contestant, Joseph Truong (BBA ’17) is continuing to show that he’s unstoppable. Truong is now dedicating his time to VoiceHero, the analytics platform that he and his friend, Jacob Chan, came up with in their university dorm. “We received an Amazon Echo […]
Posted onKellogg-Schulich EMBA Students Win $5,000 Award
Six Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA students, Steven DeCaire, Sarah Jane Flynn, Josefina Harlow, Shajahan Abdul Kader, Alan Sarhan and Denis Tondereau, recently took home the grand prize of $5,000 for the original idea they pitched in their New Venture Design course. The team formed their group based on the skillset of their members, rather than the […]
Posted onKellogg-Schulich EMBA Alum Pays It Forward for Budding Entrepreneurs
Peyvand Melati (EMBA ’18) understands the importance of an entrepreneurial approach to business. Currently the CEO of Micro Interface Design, and a successful entrepreneur and investor, Peyvand has established the Peyvand Melati New Venture Design (NVD) Award. The $5,000 award will be given annually to the winning team of Kellogg-Schulich EMBA students participating in the […]
Posted onCo-Founder of WIND Mobile Believes in the Power of Giving Back
Brice Scheschuk, CFO at Globalive Technology, Managing Partner at Globalive Capital. Co-founder and CFO of WIND Mobile hosted a special lecture for our MBA students this month, where he shared the challenges and triumphs he faced while launching the well-known Canadian wireless telecommunications provider, WIND Mobile. WIND Mobile, now known as Freedom Mobile, is Canada’s […]
Posted onSchulich Alumni Awarded Canada’s 2019 Top Developer 30 Under 30
Evoke, one of the largest developer conferences in Canadian history, took place last week in Toronto. A non-profit initiative, presented by Havas Canada & Plastic Mobile and sponsored by Microsoft, it brought together a community of developers, inspirational figures and aspiring industry experts for thought-provoking debates and discussions on today’s technology. To shine light on […]
Posted onCompany Founded by Schulich Students wins Top Startup Award
A startup company that is significantly lowering the cost of indoor air filtration took top prize in an annual York University competition for entrepreneurs. Three finalist teams in the competition, whose members all graduated from York University’s LaunchYU Accelerator program, were judged on their ability to take their venture to market and scale. The winner […]
Posted onAnother Successful Schulich Startup Night
The 11th edition of Schulich Startup Night (SSN) attracted nearly 300 students, alumni and industry professionals last week. This bi-annual event staged in collaboration with the Lassonde School of Engineering gives students and alumni an opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a panel of top industry professionals for a chance to win a $5000 cash […]
Posted onSchulich MBA Fuels his Startup Idea with A.I.
Ali Khalili (MBA ’16) realized how inconvenient it was to have to rely on a fob or key to gain access into his condo’s garage. Using his background in software engineering, he designed a parking management software solution using License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology for residential and commercial parking lots. This advanced technology uses Artificial […]
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