Summer Venture Award winners receive $10,000 to work on their startups over the summer. We asked the 2017 recipients what they achieved this summer.
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Posted: September 29, 2017

The Wharton School

Summer Venture Award

The Rigrade team (L to R): Kit Kennedy, Ryan Oldja, GEN'18, and Achielle Verheye, GEN'18
The Rigrade team (L to R): Kit Kennedy, Ryan Oldja, GEN’18, and Achielle Verheye, GEN’18

Rigrade builds climbing robots for remote inspection, surveillance, repair, and maintenance. Our robots can climb and perch onto a wide variety of structures.

What’s your proudest accomplishment from this summer?

Working as a team to get an enormous technical challenge done while also keeping a strong focus on the customer.

 

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