{"id":237542,"date":"2026-07-07T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237542\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:14:09","slug":"carnegie-mellon-university-launching-startup-showcase-aiming-to-lure-investors-to-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237542\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Mellon University launching startup showcase aiming to lure investors to Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/carnegie-mellon-university\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carnegie Mellon University<\/a>\u2018s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship is launching a new weeklong innovation showcase this fall, overlapping with a number of other tech focused events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">StartUP PGH will be held from Sept. 14 to Sep. 18 and will feature four main events through the university. These include a Lab to Market day on September 15 focused on transitioning research to commercialization, the return of AI Robotics Venture Day, featuring startup pitches, on September 16, a job fair September 17 and a ongoing exhibit of CMU startups. The week is also expected to feature keynote speakers, which have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Also occurring alongside the event will be a number of partner events, including the Pittsburgh Robotics Network\u2019s annual Robotics and AI Discovery Day, which will be held September 16, and this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/05\/26\/ai-horizons-returns-2026-dates.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">year\u2019s AI Horizons Summit on September 17 and 18.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/07\/03\/cmu-startup-showcase-startuppgh.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/07\/03\/cmu-startup-showcase-startuppgh.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Carnegie Mellon University\u2018s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship is launching a new weeklong innovation showcase this fall,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7933,7820,22111,73,75,74,13683,17831,102275,48320,102276,8272],"class_list":["post-237542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-carnegie-mellon-university","tag-cmu","tag-investors","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-robotics","tag-showcase","tag-startup-pgh","tag-startup-pitches","tag-startup-showcase","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}