2023 Jones + Foster Accelerator Cohort Revealed
There’s a certain kind of magic to entrepreneurship that forces products and industries to evolve with the times or be left behind. The eight startups... Read More
AI Wins Big at 2023 Dempsey Startup Competition
Students using artificial intelligence for good captured multiple prizes in the 26th Annual Dempsey Startup Competition at the University of Washington. Judges awarded the $25,000... Read More
Promising Ideas at Business Case in 60 Seconds Pitch Competition
Entrepreneurial ventures may start with an idea—but they launch with a great pitch. The Business Case in 60 Seconds pitch competition celebrated that critical part of... Read More
Sweet 16 Selected in All-Virtual Dempsey Startup Competition
Thirty student teams cast a spell over the judges at this year’s all-virtual Investment Round of the 2020 Dempsey Startup Competition. Each team performed digital... Read More
Lavin Program entrepreneur retools wearable device to help fight spread of COVID-19
Stop touching your face! That familiar admonition was once aimed almost exclusively at grubby-handed kids. Now it has become a dead-serious public health message for... Read More
Matching Days: Entrepreneurship Alumni Scholarship
As election night 2018 unfolded, University of Washington student Alfred Mugho spoke to a room of entrepreneurs in Seattle about the America he knows—the land... Read More
Amy Sallin Named Director of the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship
The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to officially introduce Amy Sallin as full-time director. Amy served as interim director during the 2018–2019 academic year... Read More
$80,000 Awarded to Student Ventures at 2019 Dempsey Startup Competition
A dream of preventing bridges from crumbling and harming people inspired the grand prize-winning team at the 2019 Dempsey Startup Competition. HRG Infrastructure Monitoring took... Read More
Sweet 16 Chosen for 2019 Dempsey Startup Competition
College students from across the region brought their best startup ideas to the University of Washington for the Investment Round of the 2019 Dempsey Startup... Read More
Announcing the Dempsey Startup Competition at the University of Washington
SEATTLE, WA (November 26, 2018) — The University of Washington’s annual Business Plan Competition has a new name: The Dempsey Startup Competition. The change comes as... Read More