Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital

Elaine Lu, MBA ’11, is co-founder and COO of Visbit, a streaming technology company that delivers VR videos in the best quality anytime, anywhere, and on any device.

Heloisa Menezes, visiting scholar at the Emerging Markets Institute, recounts working as a businesswoman in Brazil and the sabbatical that’s enabled her to study at Cornell.

Alex Ivanov and John Kyles, MBAs ’00 and Park Fellows, founded Big Red Ventures, a student-run, evergreen venture capital fund that continues to thrive today.

Wenni Cai, MBA ’19, and BVC finalists discuss their experiences as entrepreneurs at Cornell and as part of the BenDaniel Venture Challenge.

After the iTrek trip to Israel, Siqi Shi, Johnson Cornell Tech MBA ’19, summarizes his insights on the emerging market between China and Israeli startups.

This year’s JWiT theme, Just Tech It, celebrated MBA women who have leveraged technology to make significant cross-industry impacts.

As public equity markets lose players, private equity grows, and mergers and acquisitions reach historic levels, the economy struggles to adapt.

After a health scare introduced Pelin Wood Thorogood, MBA ’94, to the health benefits the cannabis-derived compound CBD, she saw an opportunity to make a difference.

Gen Li, MBA ’96, is founder and president of Phesi, a provider of data-driven services that helps life sciences companies expedite clinical trials.