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Scripps PhD candidate and co-founder Allison Cusick and Scripps PhD student Christian Johnson at StartBlue Demo Day 2024

December 10, 2024

StartBlue Accelerator Program Awarded $13.5 Million from NOAA to Expand Support for Ocean-Focused Startups

Program led by UC San Diego evolves into the StartBlue Ocean Enterprise Accelerator to generate economic growth in the blue economy.
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June 20, 2024

Blue Technology Startups Turn Concept Into Reality at Uc San Diego

Ocean innovators from the third startBlue cohort gathered at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography on May 29 to pitch science- and engineering-based solutions for ocean-related challenges at a Demo Day event.
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June 6, 2024

Niall O'Donnell, MBA '06, receives the 2024 Entrepreneurial Achievement Award

Niall O’Donnell, Ph.D., MBA ’06, and managing director of Rivervest Venture Partners, is the winner of the 2024 Entrepreneurial Achievement Award on behalf of the Rady School and Sullivan Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Learn more about O’Donnell’s journey, his experience getting his Rady MBA, and how the knowledge he gained has helped him optimize his firm’s investment decisions.
P-and-Q Heather Hardenberg

February 4, 2024

Poets & Quants: 2023 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: Renew Solar, UC-San Diego (Rady)

Founded by Rady School of Management and StartR alumna Heather Hardenberg, Renew Solar facilitates a network that revolutionizes solar panel end-of-term (EOT) management. Through our partnerships across the country, Renew Solar is creating a viable circular panel program that is cost-effective, efficient, and supportive of everyone in the photo-voltaic (PV) recycling industry.
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November 7, 2023

Remote Medication Monitor Receives Funding from Rady Venture Fund

CARI Health enables clinicians to view medication levels in real-time and customize dosages for every patient.
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September 22, 2023

The Rady School Ranks #2 in Entrepreneurship on the Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools 2023-24

As one of the youngest business schools in the country, the Rady School continues to have an outsized impact on entrepreneurship with over 330 ventures launched and more than $3.5 billion in private funding to support these startups.
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June 6, 2023

Entrepreneurship Shines at StartR Demo Day

The Sullivan Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation’s annual spring Demo Day, the culmination of the StartR program, was held on June 6, 2023. The StartR Accelerator provides students, alumni, and researchers with robust training, mentorship, and an ecosystem of resources to advance entrepreneurial ideas from concept to impact.
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May 23, 2023

Startups Showcase Blue Economy Innovations

Local startups showed off their latest efforts to tackle ocean-related challenges during the startBlue 2023 Demo Day on April 27th at Scripps Seaside Forum in La Jolla. The event was covered in the San Diego Business Journal.
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May 11, 2023

New UC San Diego Center to Empower Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Ernest Rady, founding donor of the Rady School and his wife, Evelyn, in addition to Rady alumni and supporters, helped to launch the new Robert S. Sullivan Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

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