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Energy Startup Grows with $3.1 M Investment

Energy Startup Grows with $3.1 M Investment

By Eunsun Cho December 4, 2015

Logan Soya’s (GRD ’13) energy analytics and management start-up, Aquicore, is gaining traction in the technology industry. In September, Aquicore became the first recipient of a D.C. incubator’s...

COURTESY NSPHIRE

App Aims to Be Tinder for Job Market

By Jessie Yu November 20, 2015

Swipe, swipe, swipe, match. You’re hired. Well, it may require more than a few swipes to get hired, but nspHire starts the conversation by matching employers and job seekers through a quick swiping...

COURTESTY SPLIT
Split offers budget rides in Washington, D.C.’s core. The startup launched in May and its ridership has grown about about 75% monthly.

Alum’s Rideshare App Competes in Crowded Marketplace

By Melina Delkic October 30, 2015

Ario Keshani (SFS ’05) wants to change the way Washingtonians think about city transportation. His startup app Split allows users to call for cars and save money by sharing rides with strangers...

StartupHoyas Solicits Pitches on Twitter

By Jessie Yu October 30, 2015

Fifty-four Georgetown students submitted startup ideas to the annual Startup Hoyas Twitter Pitch competition, which ended Oct. 23. The competition received approximately 15 percent more submissions than...

COURTESTY CHERIAN THOMAS
Spotluck co-founders Cherian Thomas (GRD ’14) and Brad Sayler hope to promote business at  local restaurants by offering discounts to customers based on a special algorithm that changes based on demand.

Startup Offers New Way to Dine Locally

By Owen Eagan October 23, 2015

When Jack Segelstein (COL ’18) goes out to eat with friends in Georgetown, his group sometimes encounters a dilemma. “A lot of the time we just can’t agree on what we want to eat,” Segelstein...

COURTESY ALEX MITCHELL
David Patou (COL ’18) and Alex Mitchell (COL ’18) founded Campus Sherpa fall 2014. The company has spread to more than 60 college campuses and employs 400 part-time student tour guides.

Startup Personalizes the College Tour

By Léa Nicolas October 16, 2015

Prospective college students can now personalize one-on-one campus tours with Campus Sherpa, a for-profit tour guide company founded and run by Alex Mitchell (COL ’18) and David Patou (COL ’18)....

COURTESY MATTHEW ARONSON
North by South founder Matthew Aronson (COL ’15) steps out of a helicopter wearing one of his company’s T-shirts with pockets made from necktie material. The startup now boasts more than 100 different designs.

Alum’s Startup Blends Formal and Casual Fashion

By Owen Eagan September 25, 2015

When online shoppers search for clothing, they are faced with seemingly endless options — a simple Amazon keyword search for the term “T-shirt” yields more than 8 million results. In this...

NEXTGENVEST
Students signed up to become members of NextGenVest during New Student Orientation the weekend of Aug. 28. The startup advertised their service outside the front gates of the university on O Street.

NextGenVest Teaches Finances, Budgeting

By Sarah Smith September 11, 2015

As hundreds of freshmen made their way through Georgetown’s front gates for New Student Orientation this year, they were greeted not only by orientation advisors, but also by representatives from...

COURTESY ALEXANDER GALICKI 
Roamer has connected more than 2,000 graduate students looking for furnished housing to other graduate students looking to sublet.

Q&A: Startup Connects Grad Students to Apartments

By Maureen Tabet September 11, 2015

Alexander Galicki (LAW ’16) and Kentaro Murase (LAW ’16) joined the start-up game in August 2014 when they created Roamer, an apartment rental app that tailors specifically to graduate students...

COURTESY JAKE DECICCO
Jake DeCicco inspects a bottle of Sunniva Caffe at the company’s production facility in Elkridge, Md. On Monday the product will officially launch in 11 regional Whole Foods stores.

Sunniva Caffe Debuts in Whole Foods

By Andrew Wallender September 4, 2015

Wide receiver Jake DeCicco (MSB ’16) wasted no time as he left football practice on the morning of Aug. 28. As most players headed for the showers and then lunch, DeCicco darted with a teammate to...

MISFIT JUICERY
MISFIT Juicery creates juice from produce destined for the landfill due to aesthetic defects. More than $165 billion in food goes to waste every year in the United States.

Startup Puts a Socially Conscious Spin on Produce

By Andrew Wallender September 4, 2015

Food waste is not a pretty topic by any count. More than $165 billion in food is thrown out every year in the United States alone, accounting for more than 20 percent of the country’s methane emissions....

COURTESY GILLIS BAXTER
Alumni Gillis Baxter and Evan Bloomberg launched their app, Vizo News, this week.

Q&A: Alumni Talk New Startup, Vizo News

By Toby Hung July 24, 2015

Like all other student entrepreneurs at Georgetown, Gillis Baxter and Evan Bloomberg (COL ’13) have high hopes for their startup, Vizo News. A news aggregator app that delivers three brief headlines...

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