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The Daily Northwestern

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

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...

Motxo Wine, the brainchild of two graduating seniors, is a mixture of wine and spiced cola inspired by a popular Spanish drink. Arabella Watters and Ben Breuner first created the product in an entrepreneurship class at Northwestern.

Recent Northwestern grads to launch wine startup

June 19, 2015

For once, millennials have a wine they can call their own. Two Northwestern graduating seniors started Motxo Wine Co., which produces red wine mixed with spiced cola, a drink originally popular among...

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