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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


The evening’s YouTube livestream played the six finalists’ pitches. Gearflow won big at the first-ever virtual VentureCat.

Pitch competition VentureCat awards over $300,000 to student startups

May 20, 2020

Two Zoom pitches and one YouTube livestream later, student startup Gearflow is $160,000 richer. The construction marketplace company won Wednesday’s online VentureCat pitch competition, beating out...

Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg and VP of Operations Jonathan Paul. The four-year-old real estate startup has helped over 1,000 clients close on over $1 billion in homes.

Flyhomes, four years after starting at Kellogg, scales up with $141 million in financing

November 26, 2019

On August 15, Flyhomes announced $141 million in new financing, a huge infusion of cash for the four-year-old real estate startup. At some companies, that might warrant a break or a few days of celebration. Not...

Presight co-founders Rosemary Fuller and Simon Yin win the $30,000 first place prize at the Wednesday’s VentureCat Showcase 2019. The founders said they will use the money to help fund a bench study for their safer ROP screening technology.

VentureCat awards $102,000 to student startups

May 23, 2019

Presight, a startup founded in Fall 2018 by Kellogg graduate students Rosemary Fuller and Simon Yin with the goal of creating a more harmless way to screen infants for retinopathy of prematurity, won first...

Annelise Riles, executive director of the Buffett Institute. Riles responded to criticisms from Faculty Senate members at Wednesday’s meeting.

Head of Buffett Institute faces backlash in response to changes in funding approvals

February 14, 2019

Faculty Senate members criticized recent changes to the Buffett Institute for Global Studies after a presentation by Annelise Riles, the Buffett Institute executive director, at Wednesday’s Senate meeting. Six...

Howell: Discovering my growth mindset

Howell: Discovering my growth mindset

February 12, 2019

During the fifth week of my freshman winter quarter at Northwestern, at around roughly 12:30 pm, I found myself sobbing my eyes out in one of the over-engineered bathroom stalls of the Kellogg Global Hub. Throughout...

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