Wake Forest celebrates entrepreneurship with ‘Entrepalooza’

Entrepalooza, a celebration of entrepreneurship and Wake Forest student entrepreneurs, will be held April 7 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. in the Scales Fine Arts Center in Brendle Recital Hall. 

The event begins with student teams pitching their startups to a live audience that includes entrepreneurs and investors.

Student startup pitches include:

• A monthly subscription box service to help cognitively stimulate dementia patients through a variety of activities including large print word searches and conversation starters. The idea was developed by senior psychology major Rosie Shields, whose father suffers from the disease.
• A service that strives to create a positive dating culture for and build relationships on college campuses through personalized and low pressure double-dates, while raising money to support the nonprofit OneSight. Senior business and management major Ted Middleton, who developed the service with senior communication major Anna Lummus, is legally blind.
• An online educational platform called ByteSize Learning for children aged 8-18 offering project-based courses in video game design, photo/video editing, digital music production and other computer software. 

Afton Vechery

Keynote Speaker: Afton Vechery, president of Women’s Health at Ro and cofounder of Modern Fertility, recently sold her company for $225M four years after its launch. Modern Fertility provides at-home tests and digital tools to help women manage their fertility and be proactive about reproductive health. Prior to Modern Fertility, Vechery led strategy and operations at various healthtech startups and was most recently a product leader at 23andMe. She is a 2011 Wake Forest graduate.

Hosted by Wake Forest University’s Center for Entrepreneurship, all events are free and open to the public. A complete schedule is available here. Register to attend here.