Founding Partners

Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC): Leadership in education and research that combines technology and fine arts to create new processes, tools, and vision for education, experience, storytelling, and entertainment.

Refresh Pittsburgh: Refresh Pittsburgh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet developers in the Pittsburgh area.

Project Olympus: Project Olympus aims to create a culture, climate and community that will enable talent and ideas to grow in the region. Interfacing between Carnegie Mellon and the regional innovation investment community, Olympus serves as an incubator for student entrepreneurial activities and aims to connect Next Generation Computing research with business creation and technology transfer opportunities.