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Rooney Lee, a recent Darden MBA graduate from the class of 2023, has entered the realm of entrepreneurship with NewSublease, a startup poised to revolutionize the mid-term housing market. With a diverse background spanning HR, Six Sigma, analytics, b...

Aman Agasi, Aman Shrivastava, and Sahil Lamba are three mechanical engineers who co-founded Krity, a fully democratized audiobook marketplace. Through this platform, anyone can record audiobooks and earn based on their listenership. They initially g...

Erika Bahr is the Founder and CEO of Invest Capital AI, a startup that utilizes Machine Learning (ML) to predict startup success. With ten years of experience in the field, Erika is a results-driven professional who has guided client accounts in imp...

Minnie Lahoti, the founder of ML STEM Prep, is a firm believer in the transformative power of education. At its core, ML STEM Prep isn't just another run-of-the-mill online tutoring platform. It's a supportive community of mentors and tutors...

          Hoi-San Guan is the visionary founder of Boozy Frozen Treats. As an MBA candidate and seasoned entrepreneur, Hoi-San brings her extensive experience in risk management, program leadership, and logistics operati...

Ellie Jamison and Grace Collins are the founders of Play Henry, an apparel brand creating elevated activewear and accessories for pickleball players. Inspired by the social and athletic aspects of pickleball, they create pieces that seamlessly transi...

Curie Chang is the founder of Petrichor, an apparel creation and disposal startup that creates sustainable, affordable, and high-quality basic apparel. Embodying the principles of extended producer responsibility, Petrichor takes full accountability...

                 Sebastian Oliver, Brian Bernard, and Dmitriy Telemtayev (pictured above, from left to right) co-founded RoomMe, a digital platform that helps college students find roommates. The thre...

Recent Chemical Engineering PhD graduate Chen Cai and current UVA professor Gary Koenig have worked together for years on battery research. They have discovered and developed an electrode manufacturing technique to load in more electroactive material...

Karthik Ramu and Akhil Maheepathi are the founders of Pare, a company that helps small businesses combat high transaction fees by providing a service that allows them to accept payments with 0% transaction fees and provide consumers with 10% + reward...

Payton Turner is the founder of Nonstop Points, an affiliate marketing company that focuses on helping students, from undergraduate to law, MBA, or medical degrees be able to afford travel at a reduced price. Payton has always been entrepreneurial a...

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 ...