🐻🚀 AEP is the best major for Entrepreneurship. I studied AEP, and 2 of my classmates are…
🐻🚀 AEP is the best major for Entrepreneurship. I studied AEP, and 2 of my classmates are Series B+ founders. AEP gave me the skills to build a startup from first principles, and the confidence to scale it to a unicorn.
here are 25 companies by AEP Founders:
🚀 FormLabs - Maxim Lobovsky ’08 - 3D printers
🚀 OpenEvidence - Zachary Ziegler ’17 - Organizing the world’s medical knowledge
🚀 Varda - Will Bruey ’11, MEng ’12 - Manufacturing in outer space
🚀 Gauntlet - Tarun Chitra ’11, John Morrow ’10 - Web3 defi solutions
🚀 Pendulum Therapeutics - John Eid ’97 - Microbiome for health
🚀 Vivun - Joseph Miller, PhD ’18 - Technical copilot for the sales team
🚀 Dusty Robotics - Tessa Lau ’95 - Robot for construction layout
🚀 TetraScience - Siping Wang ’12 - Data cloud for scientific labs
🚀 Airovation Technologies - Zvi Elgat, PhD ’85 - Carbon capture through air purification
🚀 Endpoint Health - Diego Rey, PhD ’10 - Precision immunology therapies
🚀 Odys Aviation - James Dorris ’01 - Hybrid vertical takeoff and landing aircraft
🚀 Tagworks Pharmaceuticals - Zach Taylor ’96 - Antibody drugs
🚀 Xscape Photonics - Yoshi Okawachi ’02, PhD ’08 - Photonics for semiconductor manufacturing
🚀 FluidForm Bio - Michael Graffeo ’99, MEng ’00 - Human tissue creation
🚀 Heritable Agriculture - Bradley Zamft ’01 - Programmable agricultural plants
🚀 Leash Bio - Andrew Blevins ’10 - Machine learning for medicinal chemistry
🚀 Meadow AI - Max Jai Sim ’10 - Software for retail operations
🚀 Ovelle - Travis Potter ’05 - Fertility egg production
🚀 Caesar Sustainability - Connor Cash ’20 - Sustainability data management
🚀 MorphoAI - Andrew Spielberg ’10, MEng ’11 - AI for robotics automation
🚀 NetworkOcean - Eric Kim ’23 - Underwater data centers
🚀 Psi Finance - Jesper Kristensen, PhD ’15 - Instant borderless payments
🚀 GeneWEAVE - Diego Rey, PhD ’10 - Microbiology diagnostics
🚀 Svelte Medical Systems - David Fischell ’75 - Medical device manufacturer
🚀 NeuroPace - David Fischell ’75 - Implantable device to prevent seizures
at Reunion, I always go to the AEP Saturday morning breakfast, and it’s incredible to see what AEP alums have gone on to do: professors to entrepreneurs to lawyers to biotech executives and so much more
study Applied and Engineering Physics!!
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