Startups

  • Vanderbilt University

    Company co-founded by BME alumnus launches design platform for custom fit products

    Garrett Spiegel, BE’10, right, and Jeff Huber, left, cofounded Standard Cyborg, a San Francisco company whose software is used across the world to enable easier design of orthotics and prosthetics. When it began, Standard Cyborg set out to make design of custom-fabricated orthotics and prosthetics easier and quicker – especially in… Read More

    Jun. 11, 2018

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering faculty to lead two new University Courses

    School of Engineering faculty will lead two of the five newest University Courses, which are designed to promote new and creative trans-institutional teaching and learning and advance Vanderbilt’s mission. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be taught by Doug Fisher, associate professor of computer science and associate professor of… Read More

    Mar. 26, 2018

  • Vanderbilt University

    Entrepreneur Center turns attention to music startups

    Nashville’s next tech accelerator shouts Music City, and it’s looking for Vanderbilt University engineering students to answer. After five years of launching successful startups in other industries, the Nashville Entrepreneur Center is teaming with the Country Music Association for its first music-focused accelerator. Joe Galante Health care… Read More

    Oct. 19, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Hedgecock’s PinPtr wows Spark Nashville crowd, takes win

    Charleson Bell pitches Flash Crystal at Spark Nashville, held Thursday at Events on Third in downtown Nashville. Tech lovers crowded three stories of a downtown Nashville event space Thursday night, standing in hushed silence as two Vanderbilt engineers and eight other inventors argued in 90 seconds each… Read More

    Sep. 5, 2014