LaunchPad Students and Alumni Tackle the Challenges of Coronavirus

May 07, 2020

3-min read

If there’s one thing that inspires us, it’s seeing young entrepreneurs taking action after being motivated by some challenge to their community. For the past month that’s been happening all over the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars network. Students and recent alumni of these schools and programs - who themselves are dealing with dramatic shifts to the traditional college and young professional experience - are stepping up, starting businesses, and offering solutions to the problems associated COVID19. Here are just a few of these student startup stories…

Claire Monro and Claire Fisher (University of Southern California LaunchPad)

LaunchPad USC COVID

Dr. Peter Baek, (University of Texas, Dallas LaunchPad)

LaunchPad UT Dallas

Brian Kam (Syracuse University LaunchPad)

LaunchPad Syracuse COVID

Levi Worts (Montana State University LaunchPad)

LaunchPad MSU COVID

Brian Bischoff and Dan Buckmaster (University at Buffalo LaunchPad)

LaunchPad Buffalo COVId

Spencer Elliott (University of Central Florida LaunchPad)

LaunchPad UCF COVID

Blake Teipel (Texas A&M LaunchPad)

LaunchPad TAMU COVID

Longsha Liu (Cornell LaunchPad)

LaunchPad Cornell COVID

About the Author
Author
Courtney Gras

Courtney Gras is the LaunchPad Director for Techstars and wrote Entrepreneur is a Verb in 2018. You can follow her on Twitter at @courtneyagras.