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For many individuals, fitness is simply a daily part of their lives. For CEO and co-founder of the Spot social fitness app, Jeremy Suh, it’s his lifestyle. Whether he’s doing calf-raises in a Chipotle line or a 3-hour chest workout, Jerem...

LA FOI JEWELRY was founded in 2021 by Darden alum Liana Lei. Born and raised in a small city in China, Liana grew up in a family of entrepreneurs and learned at an early age that nothing worthwhile comes easy. Her Dad used to tell her in order to add...

Vibez Music was founded in March of 2019 by Cresta Campbell, Trey Winn, Jordan Holsey, and Rehan Chaudhry. The founders didn't initially picture themselves as entrepreneurs in their undergraduate years at UVA, but they noticed something was missi...

Frustrated with the waste created by thoughtless gifts that end up in storage cabinets, junk drawers, and landfills, Emily Ashtiani launched Earnestly, a corporate gifting concierge. Emily is a passionate champion for customer experience, which is on...

We are excited to host a lunch honoring the current and 2020 recipients of the Kathryne Carr Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence: Cardboard Live and Transfoam, The September 10 event will be at Darden’s new i.Lab, located in the heart of...

InColorStock The idea for starting InColorStock first came to Claritza Jiménez, EMBA 2021 while working at The Washington Post. As a video producer and editor, Claritza often had a tough time with finding racially diverse stock photos and stoc...

It’s not hard to believe that immersing yourself in Sonoma California’s wine country might inspire you to launch a wine beverage company. Having spent the last three years in Sonoma, Josh Rombach and team are doing just that.  While ...

Gretchen Pace chose to attend the University of Virginia Darden School of Business at the age of 31 because she realized she wanted to pursue entrepreneurship. After serving her country for nearly nine years in the US Army and completing an internshi...

To say you are passionate about your job is an understatement for Elizabeth Blankenship, CEO and co-founder of Coton.  Coton is a fully sustainable luxury fashion brand with a focus on utilizing existing materials to deliver premium clothing whi...

While stuck at home during the pandemic last year, Malcolm Roberson was playing video games in between medical school classes and endless studying when he had a realization. It occurred to him that there was an opportunity to change the way UVA and o...

Many people explored new hobbies during the global pandemic, but Jing Xu took this exploration to the next level and founded a company—Cobouchy—out of her newfound passion for brewing coffee kombucha. Jing started her journey by making cr...

Read the Darden Report about our ventures and their summer in our virtual incubator: https://news.darden.virginia.edu/2020/10/05/venturelab-prepares-uncertain-world/

“It isn’t about how hard you fall, but how well you can pick yourself up.” – Kurien Thomas, Co-Founder of Pick-Me-Up This foundational statement of Pick-Me-Up explains it all. Pick-Me-Up is building a system of resilience by p...

Have you ever gone to the fridge to find your last couple of apples spoiled? Or maybe the tomatoes were left out too long and started to rot. If you’ve experienced either of these situations or any other disappointing time when you came across ...

Taylor Kamhong and George Ardura, the founders of Worm Works LLC, know their love of worms is uncommon. The two were introduced through a mutual friend who thought they needed to meet each other because of this niche, shared passion. In addition to w...

Transfoam is making a sustainable world more accessible for the average consumer. Founders Alec Brewer, Simonne Guenette, and Kobe Rogers are University of Virginia students studying biomedical engineering, biology, and biochemistry respectively. The...

What started as a capstone project has transformed into a medical device company. Vincent (Vinny) Sciortino, Vikram Seshadri, and Kevin Chang, recent graduates of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia, founded SergoMED to improve physi...

Thomas Jefferson instilled lifelong learning into the core of the University of Virginia. To embrace this mindset, Srikar Gullapalli, recent Darden School of Business graduate, has created Q-Rayt: the tool to remain a lifelong learner. Q-Ra...

ShadowDoc is the new go-to resource for anyone remotely interested in the medical field. The founders behind this venture, Nitin Tiwari and Benjamin Tran, may appear to be dermatologists but are truly entrepreneurs. The two met while at the Universit...

PERC Coffee is brewing up a new way to explore and experience coffee. The craft coffee roasting company is opening a second shop in Atlanta, GA on August 4th. Philip Brown and Alan Fischer, the passionate founders of PERC, don’t even need four ...

Piaz is empowering refugee and immigrant women through bringing dumplings to American tables. The flavor-packed dumpling company started by recent University of Virginia Darden graduate, Saule Kassengaliyeva, produces recipes from female refugees and...

Rise Energy Systems is making it easy for businesses and homes to run on solar. Matthew Miller, the founder of Rise, has developed a ground-based, remotely-deployable solar array. The solar panels retract in and out like an accordion, only taking up ...

Have you ever been sitting in class wishing your notes could be as neat as your neighbors? Or maybe you are the neighbor with a talent for organizing information clearly. You could even need notes for one class and be a successful note-take...

A traditional trade in the art industry involves an artist’s agent connecting with a collector, who then determines whether the artist’s work will be purchased for a gallery. Patti Pan, a recent University of Virginia Darden School of Bus...

Joe Jamison wonders why businesses are missing out on a significant portion of the consumer market. The 2019 University of Virginia graduate grew up vicariously experiencing the unnecessary difficulties faced by those with mobility issues. Joe&r...