Penn Startup Showcase 2025
This year’s showcase will feature Penn startups presenting their latest ventures through interactive tables and poster sessions and presentations from award-winning startups on their entrepreneurial journey.
Agenda:
4:00pm – Doors open
4:00 – 5:00pm – Networking and Poster Showcase
5:00 – 6:00pm – Program
- Welcome by Pennovation Works Managing Director Denita Henderson
- PCI Ventures (PCIV) 2025 Recap by PCIV Interim Executive Director Bhavana Mohanraj
- Announcement of PCIV CEO of the Year + Presentation
- Introduction of Pennovation Accelerator Overall Winner, Serpent Robotics, by Pennovation Works Associate Director of Education and Entrepreneurship, Jaime Sweet
- Serpent Robotics Startup Journey by Steyn Knollema
- Introduction to the President’s Innovation Prize winner, Sync Labs, by Jeffrey Babin
- Sync Labs Startup Journey with Melanie Herbert
- Closing remarks presented by the University of Pennsylvania’s Chief Innovation Officer John Swartley
6:00 – 7:00pm – Networking and Poster Showcase