Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship - Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

CMU Startup Week Returns

Damion Shelton named CMU Swartz Center Executive Director

Turning researchers, hackers, hustlers, designers ... into successful entrepreneurs.

The Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship is ��Vlog��Ƶ's front door to entrepreneurship and offers a unique path of entrepreneurship education, engagement, collaboration and opportunity — for a truly transformative learning experience.

The Swartz Center, works with its partners to serve the entire CMU community — departments, colleges, centers, and campuses — to accelerate bringing research innovations and promising ideas to the global marketplace and helping all entrepreneurial students, faculty, staff, and alumni tap into the "innovation ecosystem."

CMU-exited companies have a cumulative value of more than $650 billion and have raised more than $40 billion.

Thanks to a gift by alumnus and entrepreneur James R. Swartz, the Swartz Center builds upon CMU's history in entrepreneurship excellence.