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AI is a Big Bang, Not a Bubble

We’re probably overvaluing AI in the short term but undervaluing it in the long term, writes tech VC Philipp Stauffer WG04.

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Alumni Spotlight

Forging Pathways for Future Investors

As Girls Who Invest celebrates 10 years, founder Seema Hingorani WG96 looks back on the program’s impact on young women in finance.

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Blog Network

Alumni Book Roundup: Winter 2025

International recipes, leadership lessons, an inspiring memoir, and more.

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When AI Becomes Your Career Coach

How creative problem-solving can transform workforce displacement

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The Hidden Value in Procurement Terms

How a careful read of supplier contracts can lead to significant savings

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CEOs Find Resilience Amid Uncertainty

A Deloitte survey reveals executives’ thoughts on tariffs, AI, and more

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Alumni Spotlight

First-Generation Inspiration

As a student, Valerie Ramirez Mukherjee WG03 faced hurdles. Now, she’s helping kids get to college.

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How to Become a Corporate Shot Caller

Business leaders can learn from Babe Ruth by turning vision and focus into a plan for success

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Alumni Spotlight

A Hardcourt Homecoming

Ahead of his debut as Quakers head coach on November 7, Fran McCaffery W82 talks about returning to campus, the upcoming season, and how Wharton prepared him for success.

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Paris: The New Switzerland

Alumni and leaders share insights from the global Asia Society Summit

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HUNGRY Marketplace

Traditional catering companies aren’t designed to feed large offices. Enter HUNGRY Marketplace: Jeff Grass WG99’s startup offers a twist on the usual catering model, hiring top chefs to cook in “ghost kitchens.” The result? High-quality restaurant food delivered to corporate teams for a fraction of the budget. HUNGRY features a centralized dashboard and mobile app for easier group orders. The company also donates a meal for every two purchased, totaling nearly three million meals to date. HUNGRY acquired Foodee in May, and the service is available in 13 U.S. cities.

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Grey State Apparel

Saima Chowdhury WG05 launched Grey State to “make women’s lives easier” — a mantra that extends far beyond comfortable workwear and relaxed joggers. Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a framework, the clothing company is rooted in kindness, from using recycled textiles to offering childcare in production facilities to giving back — Chowdhury funded a girls’ school in her native Bangladesh. Tapping further into her heritage, she also employs local Bangladeshi artisans and factory workers, ensuring healthy and safe working conditions. Grey State was featured as one of Cosmopolitan’s 20 Asian-owned fashion brands in May.

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Simply Good

This innovative management software is bringing OpenTable-style functionality to recreational sports. Co-founded by Brandon Huang WG25, Simply Good is helping athletic facilities replace outdated workflows for bookings, billing, and other processes with its all-in-one platform. While basketball courts and other sporting venues use Simply Good to handle their operations, players use the company’s GoodRun service — which Huang accelerated in Venture Lab’s VIP-X Philadelphia program last year — to rent spots for recreational games, similar to how diners book reservations on apps. The complementary services together offer a way for facilities to not only rent their spaces, but to manage their businesses at large.

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Brightwheel

This Shark Tank success has developed software that preschools and child-care providers use to manage billing, communicate with families, handle admissions processes, and more. After appearing in front of “the sharks” in 2016, founder Dave Vasen WG10 made a $600,000 deal with investors Mark Cuban and Chris Sacca. Since then, Brightwheel has expanded its user base, attracted additional investors, and acquired Experience Early Learning, adding that company’s educational curriculum to its own ecosystem.

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Teal Health

On a mission to increase cervical cancer screenings, CEO Kara Egan WG11 teamed up with interventional radiologist Dr. Avnesh Thakor to launch Teal Health, which has produced the first FDA-approved at-home Pap smear kit. In May, the company’s Teal Wand, designed for seamless sample-taking, received the coveted “breakthrough device” designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after clinical trials showed a 96 percent accuracy rate. Teal Wands started shipping in California this summer, and the founders are looking to expand insurance coverage.

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BuildOps

Led by U.S. Army veteran Alok Chanani WG10, BuildOps is “mission control” for contractors. The software platform manages scheduling and invoicing for workers across electrical, plumbing, and other blue-collar industries. Chanani’s reverence for the commercial trades started when he was a combat engineer; during his deployment in Iraq, he delivered U.S. currency to remote areas, inspiring him to help companies running on little to no technology. Today, BuildOps has eliminated antiquated systems — such as paper ticketing — for its clients, cutting billing time up to 73 percent. The Los Angeles Business Journal reported that BuildOps received a $127 million investment in March; the company was also named one of Forbes’s America’s Best Startup Employers and made the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

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The Wharton Fund: Priscilla Zee, WG’12

Priscilla Zee WG12 talks about the opportunities that Wharton has offered her and the impact of alumni support on her education.
October 26, 2011
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