Entrepreneurship

Jesse Devlyn with vision kiosk
October 10, 2024
Jesse Devlyn (MBA '93) is CEO of Zoom Vision, which hopes to transform optometry in the U.S. by providing affordable, on-demand vision care to underserved populations, including the country’s large Hispanic community.
Josh McCoy pitches Tipzy during the finals of Pitch Friday
April 29, 2024
Music app Tipzy, which enables bars to generate insights from customer-requested music, hit a high note at this year’s Pitch Friday Competition, taking home the grand prize of $15,000 in cash and $2,500 in pro bono legal services.
Rob Lalka and Kristen Dunning
March 15, 2024
Gently Soap, a skincare brand that creates bath products infused with clinically validated botanicals to provide “joyful relief” to people with sensitive skin, won first place and the top prize of $75,000 at the 24th annual Tulane Business Model Competition.
Andrea Turner Moffitt received award from Kimberly Gramm
March 14, 2024
Tulane University honored Chris Britt (A&S ’95) and Andrea Turner Moffitt (NC ’00) as Entrepreneurs of the Year at the 2024 Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards Gala.
Founders Forum
March 13, 2024
The Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation's second annual Founders Forum gave entreprenuership students the chance to meet and learn from the founders of 23 New Orleans area companies.
Rob Lalka
December 19, 2023
Rob Lalka, executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was interviewed by NOLA.com for a story about the findings of the 2023 Greater New Orleans Startup Report, an annual publication of the center that tracks startup and small-business activity across the region.
Skyline of New Orleans showing Superdome
December 13, 2023

New Orleans area startups are staffing up and attracting more investment funding despite headwinds from higher interest rates, inflation and pessimism over the national economy, according to Tulane University’s 2023 Greater New Orleans Startup Report.

Josh McCoy of Tipzy deliver Pitch Friday pitch on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023.
October 30, 2023
Tulane student entrepreneurs brought their startup ideas before a panel of judges and Wave Weekend audiences during a homecoming round of the Freeman School's Pitch Friday competition.
October 25, 2023
The A. B. Freeman School of Business has received a $5 million gift from Todd and Gina Schwartz to expand opportunities for students to “learn by doing.”
Rob Lalka teaches Venture Accelerator 2 in Lepage Incubator
August 07, 2023

With interest in entrepreneurship growing among students, Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business will launch a new program this fall to introduce undergraduates to the fundamentals of business creation.

HEARTio pitches its business model at the 2023 Tulane Business Model Competition
March 31, 2023

HEARTio, a digital diagnostic company that uses the power of artificial intelligence to help clinicians better diagnose heart disease, won first place and the grand prize of $75,000 at the 23rd annual Tulane Business Model Competition.

Rob Lalka
March 24, 2023

Rob Lalka, Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business and executive director of the Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was interviewed for an Inc. story about Generation Z’s growing interest in entrepreneurship.

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