Wharton Stories: Venture Awards

Shanel Fields standing in front of a yellow firetruck

While getting her MBA, Shanel Fields, WG’19, founded MD Ally to ensure critical emergency resources are reserved for patients with true medical emergencies.

This MBA’s Telehealth Startup Saves Lives One Call at a Time

Mitch Gainer standing in front of a Wharton backdrop. He has short, brown hair and is wearing a black blazer over a blue shirt.

Summer Venture Award winners receive $10,000 to work on their startups over the summer. We asked the 2017 recipients what they achieved this summer.

How This Summer Venture Award Winner Will Bring Cutting-Edge Analytics to City Governments

Timothy Blomfield, Founder of Incidnt, working in a bus

Summer Venture Award winners receive $10,000 to work on their startups over the summer. We asked the 2017 recipients what they achieved this summer.

This Summer Venture Award Winner Aims to Prevent Bullying With an App

Nidhi Shah of RevoLOOtion

Award-winning entrepreneur Nidhi Shah, WG’17, G’17, has set out to fill human needs, whether toilets for urban India through her social enterprise or free lunch on Fridays for her entrepreneurial classmates.

How This MBA Social Entrepreneur Is Solving a Basic Need With Her Sanitation Startup

Siddharth Shah, WG’17, in a red sweater with black hair and glasses, with blurry fall trees and lights in the background.

“There is an advantage of being in the market where you want to implement an idea.”

An MBA Entrepreneur Crosses the Globe to Launch Two Startups in His First Year

Joseph Quan, WG’17, left, and Nikhil Srivastava, WG’17, right, smiling while sitting on blue armchairs in an empty lounge.

“We wanted to solve one specific problem inside of Wharton — this person-to-person matching problem. Then we found that the fundamental technology that underlies the product can be applied to a whole host of other issues.”

How These Two MBAs Are Driving New Connections with an Analytics Startup