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  • Notre Dame Startup and McCloskey Winner, SecūrSpace, Selected for MassChallenge Boston’s 2018 Accelerator

    SecūrSpace, a University of Notre Dame startup and co-winner of the 2018 $50,000 McCloskey New Venture Competition grand prize, announced today that it has been selected to participate in the 2018 cohort of MassChallenge Boston, a nationally-ranked high-potential startup accelerator.  More than 1,600 startups applied to be part of MassChallenge’s 2018 Boston cohort—a record number—but only 128, including SecūrSpace, were selected. …

    Nick Swisher

  • 2018 finance grad wins OZY Genius Award

    University of Notre Dame 2018 graduate Nikhil Garg, a finance and applied and computational mathematics and statistics a double major, is among 10 college students who received a 2018 OZY Genius Award. He is co-founder of Centralix, an exchange aggregator that allows retail traders in the digital asset space to buy and sell cryptocurrencies from one central platform at best execution prices, without having an account on each individual exchange.…

    OZY

  • Lessons on social entrepreneurship from Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus [Video]

    Nobel Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus explains how social business leads to "super-happiness," why it's important to think big and start small, and why we're all entrepreneurs.

    Brett Beasley

  • 2018 McCloskey New Venture Competition Winners

    17 area teams were awarded more than $400,000 in cash and in-kind prizes at the 2018 McCloskey New Venture Competition on Friday, April 27.  Enlighten Mobility and SecurSpace split the $50,000 McCloskey Grand Prize, which is awarded to teams founded by Notre Dame students or alumni. Figuro3D and Healthy Points split the new $50,000 Startup South Bend-Elkhart/Elevate Ventures Grand Prize, which is awarded to the top community based teams.…

    Nick Swisher

  • Dennis Boyle speaks at Mendoza during IDEA Week

    Notre Dame alumnus Dennis Boyle, a founding member of IDEO, spoke at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business on design thinking April 26 during IDEA Week. Read more about his talk here.     …

    Melissa Jackson

  • Blockchain tech highlighted in new competition at Notre Dame

    The South Bend Tribune covered the Notre Dame MBA Tech Club's inaugural MBA Technology Innovation Challenge, sponsored by Thomson Reuters. Read the full story here…

    The South Bend Tribune

  • Mendoza MBA student’s tech startup secures $600K investment

    When Cory Bailey left politics to pursue an MBA, his goal was to work for a tech company after graduation. He never expected to start his own.

    Melissa Jackson

  • Notre Dame’s Idea Week packed with events promoting startups, tech…and music

    Finance majors Brian Cho and Peter Moeckel and their startup Resonado were featured in a South Bend Tribune article about upcoming IDEA Week activities. 

    The South Bend Tribune

  • Inaugural MBA contest explores business uses for the tech behind Bitcoin

    There’s more to blockchain technology than Bitcoin. A new MBA competition hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business will focus on innovative business uses for blockchain, the distributed database technology that powers cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Teams from seven business schools will share their ideas and compete for $10,000 in prize money during the Notre Dame MBA Technology Innovation Challenge from 1 to 5 p.m. April 20 (Friday) in Mendoza’s Jordan Auditorium. The event, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, is open to the public.

    Melissa Jackson

  • Resonado: Sounding a new resonance in the speaker industry

    We are currently living in an age of substantial technological developments. Televisions, phones, and computers continually get sleeker and more efficient with each iteration and your average Joe will soon be able to act as a space tourist and own a car that drives itself. Yet, despite what seems like remarkable technological progress all around us, some technologies have advanced only incrementally over the years. Take audio speakers for example. They have largely been confined to their traditional conical structure, giving us good quality sound but in a bulky package. Resonado, a student-led startup out of the University of Notre Dame, is seeking to change this.…

    Sarah McCafferty