Jeffrey Brashear

Each year Carnegie Mellon students, staff and professors launch 20 – 30 startups. Many of these spin-offs are based on industry leading intellectual property developed on campus. CMU Startups on Crunchbase: http://bit.ly/2nowN4F We believe companies with CMU technical DNA have an unfair advantage in the market. The purpose of this group is to find the best of the best and share these investment opportunities with CMU Alumni (and select friends). Together we can all help these great entrepreneurs succeed and also share in their financial success. What we look for: 1) Passionate, coachable founder(s) with deep empathy for customers. Lean, Focus, and Hustle. 2) Technology innovation rooted in next technology Epoch. 3) Large and growing addressable market or high-value problem. How does this get exponentially big? 4) Demonstrated early product traction. 4) Plausible "why now?"​ answer. 99 Tartans is independent of and not affiliated with the Carnegie Mellon University in any way.

Each year Carnegie Mellon students, staff and professors launch 20 – 30 startups. Many of these spin-offs are based on industry leading intellectual property developed on campus. CMU Startups on Crunchbase: http://bit.ly/2nowN4F We believe companies with CMU technical DNA have an unfair advantage in the market. The purpose of this group is to find the best of the best and share these investment opportunities with CMU Alumni (and select friends). Together we can all help these great entrepreneurs succeed and also share in their financial success. What we look for: 1) Passionate, coachable founder(s) with deep empathy for customers. Lean, Focus, and Hustle. 2) Technology innovation rooted in next technology Epoch. 3) Large and growing addressable market or high-value problem. How does this get exponentially big? 4) Demonstrated early product traction. 4) Plausible "why now?"​ answer. 99 Tartans is independent of and not affiliated with the Carnegie Mellon University in any way.

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Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. When engaging with Accenture, we encourage everyone to: - Use common courtesy and be respectful of others. - Create your own original content and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent. - Never repost someone elses copyrighted work, unless you have permission. - Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts we deem to be: - Profane, obscene, inappropriate, offensive, abusive material. - Spam, repeated comments and commercial messages and personal advertisements. - Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. - Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization. - False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.

At IBM, we do more than work. We create. We create as technologists, developers, and engineers. We create with our partners. We create with our competitors. If youre searching for ways to make the world work better through technology and infrastructure, software and consulting, then we want to work with you. Were here to help every creator turn their "what if" into what is. Lets create something that will change everything.

BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy. Our roots are European, but our footprint is truly global. Transformation is our core service. We deliver value to enterprises, government organizations and NGOs. In a rapidly changing world, BearingPoint provides solutions to tomorrow’s challenges as well as today’s. As for our scale? In 2023 we delivered 1,810 projects in 43 countries. We operate in three business units: Consulting, Products, and Capital. This gives us the holistic expertise our clients need to help them achieve greater success. Everything we deliver is measurable and sustainable. We accomplish this through our approach: • We are independent advisors • We listen, understand and adapt • We combine strategy with operational focus • We blend management and technology for maximum potential • We help our clients embrace change Our culture is defined by our purpose – ‘together, we are more than business’ – combined with three values that bring it to life: • We are easy to work with • We empower people to succeed • We create lasting outcomes Every day we’re working to deliver more for people, more innovation, and more for our planet. From AI to automation, strategy to sustainability, BearingPoint is helping our clients and their people to forge brighter futures.