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Student Startup to Top-Tier VC Funded Company

Event Type
Informational
Sponsor
Technology Entrepreneur Center| Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Location
National Center for Supercomputing Applications Auditorium
Date
Oct 9, 2025   2:00 - 4:00 pm  
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Originating Calendar
Siebel School Corporate

Student Startup to Top-Tier VC Funded Company

Hear directly from recently graduated founders discussing their experiences launching a company and quickly securing VC funding. Discover how Gautam Ajjarapu (CS’22) and Vishnu Chakroborty (CS’22), co-founders of the FinTech platform, Glide, transformed their student startup into a $15 million venture-backed success story.

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