Launch Pad

Karl speaks with Lindsay Stewart, CEO and Founder of Stringr, a video platform that allows customers to source, edit, publish and monetize video. Stringr has more than 100,000 videographers who respond to custom video requests in near real time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Startup studio, Atomic led by Jack Abraham Founder, Managing Partner & CEO helps to actualize people's creative ideas by building dynamic teams. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Karl Siebrecht Co-Founder and CEO of Flexe takes Rob for a deep dive inside his company Flexe. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In an ever changing world and job market, global online learning platform, Udacity provides tools for people to develop skills to advance their careers. Karl speaks with CEO Gabe Dalporto of Udacity, a project based learning platform. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Zach Sims, Co-Founder and CEO of Codecademy talks with Karl about how they teach more than 45 million people around the world the skills they need to upgrade their careers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen to Karl and Rob talk with Blake Sholl about how his company, Boom Supersonic is building the world’s fastest airliner for a dramatically more accessible world. Boom Supersonic is a startup company in Centennial, Colorado. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Aaron Levie, Co-Founder and CEO of Enterprise company Box talks with Rob about how the company originated in his college dorm room and landed in peoples now, home offices just in time for the surge of working from home. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rob and Karl discuss how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting entrepreneurship globally and domestically, the importance of wearing a mask, and 3 ways to increase creativity levels. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eliza Blank, Founder and CEO of The Sill speaks with Karl about her company, which brings the joys of backyard gardening to the inside window sill of a city dwellers apartment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.BIO: Pawsitive is a pet wellness community in an app.TEAM MEMBERS: SAMAYA SINHA (IPD’20); ECHO WAN (IPD’21)ADDITIONAL LINKS: WEBSITE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.BIO: Mobility seeks to mobilize the large population of economically-restricted individuals in South Africa to complete deliveries of chronic medicines from pharmacies to individual households in order to tackle the medical last-mile challenge.TEAM MEMBERS: YIWEN LI (C’21, W’21); JACOB CHIDAWAYA (ENG’23); ARIS SAXENA (W’21); SONIA SHAH (C’22); EASH AGGARWAL (C’21)ADDITIONAL LINKS: WEBSITE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.BIO: ConnectED Mobile works with the nation’s largest 4G LTE mobile provider to offer family plan pricing directly to individuals. We primarily serve international students, who arrive in the US without families with whom to access a family plan, nor the social security numbers and US credit history required for postpaid plans. Plans start at $22.99/month and include unlimited 3G data in the US and 2G data abroad. Since launching in 2019, ConnectED Mobile now serves students at over 20+ leading universities.TEAM MEMBERS: ANDIE KAPLAN (WG’20); COLBY COX (C’20)ADDITIONAL LINKS: WEBSITE 

We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.BIO: SilkBlu Technologies LLC is a software innovation company aspiring to democratize information and empower companies in emerging markets through WiFi-enabled analytics.TEAM MEMBERS: ELIZA CULP(C’20); JOSEPH IWASYK (ENG’20); RANSFORD ANTWI (ENG’20); KYLER MINTAH (ENG’20), JOSEPH KIRANADDITIONAL LINKS: WEBSITE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.BIO: MAR Designs has developed a patient responsive wrist orthotic for the treatment of spasticity in children with cerebral palsy. This device improves wrist function while ensuring patient comfort by dynamically stretching the joint as the child is falling asleep using a specialized motorized system.TEAM MEMBERS: REBECCA LI (GRE’23); ARIELLA MANSFIELD (GRE’23); MICHAEL SOBREPERA (GRE’21)ADDITIONAL LINKS: WEBSITE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.BIO: SHOWCASE vending machines are a platform for brands to trade products for feedback. Consumers get free items, in exchange for a quick survey, and brands get targeted, quality, in-moment data.TEAM MEMBERS: DANA KIM (WG’20)ADDITIONAL LINKS: WEBSITE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.BIO: Frutero is a premium quality, tropical fruit ice cream company with flavors including Mango, Guava, Passion Fruit Guanabana, and Coconut. Frutero is made from 100% real fruits grown in Colombia and Thailand, and the best dairy from Pennsylvania.TEAM MEMBERS: MICHAEL WEBER (WG’20), VEDANT SABOO (WG’20)ADDITIONAL LINKS: WEBSITE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tombot develops robotic animals that transform the daily lives of individuals, families and communities facing health adversities. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

CES is the world's gathering place for all those who thrive on the business of consumer technologies. It has served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies for 50 years — the global stage where next-generation innovations are introduced to the marketplace. Kirsten Korosec specializes in transportation and automotive technology. In short (in her own words), if it moves people and packages from A to B, she writes about it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Infatuation's mission is very simple: to bring you the most honest and trustworthy opinions on where to eat around the world, with reviews and guides curated by a small group of highly trained, highly opinionated writers and editors. The startup purchased Zagat from Google for an undisclosed sum in March 2018, exciting the restaurant world with a recently released 40th-anniversary edition of the Zagat New York City guide and, by 2020, a new digital platform for Zagat including an updated website and app.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Watched live by more than 6.5M people each month, Cheddar is the leading post-cable news, media, and entertainment company. Cheddar also garners hundreds of millions of organic video views monthly across Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn and other social & distributed video platforms.The company broadcasts from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, its street level studio in the glass corner of the Sprint Store in the Flatiron Building, WeWork in Los Angeles, and the White House. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.