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Global Impact Award Finalist Spotlight: Lux & Nyx

Meet Global Impact Award Finalist Lux & Nyx, a startup born from a deep desire to empower high-achieving women to bridge the gap between their identities and rise up as self-made individuals. Founder & Designer Lisa Hu (PMBA ’16) spent...

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Spring 2025 Skandalaris Venture Competition Finalists Announced

Sixteen WashU student and recent alumni ventures have been selected as finalists in the Spring 2025 Skandalaris Venture Competition (SVC). On March 6, thirty-three semifinalists presented a their best two-minute pitch to a panel of judges during a closed session....

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Global Impact Award Finalist Spotlight: Sobriety Hub

Meet Global Impact Award finalist Sobriety Hub, a startup on a mission to set a new standard in data analytics for sober living homes. By providing an intuitive solution built from the ground up, Sobriety Hub hopes to save time...

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Skandalaris No-Code Hackathon: 36 Hours, Zero Code, Unlimited Ingenuity

What happens when you put a bunch of WashU (and SLU!) students in a room for 36 hours with no sleep, no code, and a whole lot of coffee? Magic. This past weekend, February 21-23, the Skandalaris Center hosted its...

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Meet the Spring 2025 Skandalaris Venture Competition Semifinalists

Thirty-five WashU startups have been named as semifinalists in the spring 2025 Skandalaris Venture Competition (SVC). Each venture, founded by students or recent alumni, is competing for a chance to win funding from a $25,000 prize pool. “We had an...

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