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WashU Skandalaris Graduate Team Wins Venture Capital Competition, Advances to Global Finals

We are thrilled to celebrate our WashU Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) MBA team, which placed 1st in the South Regional Finals held this past weekend at Rice University. Their exceptional performance secures them a place in the prestigious Global

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Skandalaris Announces Six Finalists for the 2025 Global Impact Award

The Skandalaris Center is excited to announce six finalists for the 2025 Global Impact Award. The Global Impact Award was founded in 2013 to support the vision and passion of Washington University in St. Louis students, postdoctoral researchers, and recent alumni who

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Skandalaris Venture Competition Q&A: Nari

Each semester, the Skandalaris Center hosts the Skandalaris Venture Competition (SVC), which aims to nurture early-stage ideas, inventions, or startups at WashU, preparing teams for commercialization, launching, and pitching to investors. We chatted with SVC Catalyst Funding winner and founder

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Revolutionizing Accounting: Pryce Yebesi Raises $3M for Open Ledger, Backed by WashU Network

Pryce Yebesi, former Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Utopia Labs (recently acquired by Coinbase) has secured $3 million in pre-seed funding led by Kindred Ventures to launch his new company, Open Ledger. Joined by Co-Founder Ashtyn Bell, Open Ledger

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Skandalaris Venture Competition Q&A: Phoenix Biomedical

Applications are now open for the spring 2025 cycle of the Skandalaris Venture Competition! SVC aims to nurture early-stage ideas, inventions, or startups, preparing them for commercialization, launching, and pitching to investors. The competition is open to all WashU students

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