Events at The Garage

Want to get into The Garage by joining an existing startup? This is your night! We’re taking our super popular Startup Matchmaking event virtual! Join us via Zoom to hear one minute pitches from teams looking for help from Northwestern students like you – then you’ll receive information to connect individually with team leaders to see if it’s a good fit. If you’re a Resident or Tinkerer interested in signing up to pitch at (Virtual) Startup Matchmaking, click here!

Activate is an 8-week immersive learning experience with the goal of making entrepreneurship more inclusive and accessible to Black Northwestern students. Activate welcomes all kinds of projects ranging from education or arts based innovations to technology development – any idea that a student wants to grow. Learn more with Matt Reweta, a junior and the program coordinator, during this informal, student to student Information Session.

The Garage is very excited to announce we are launching a new podcast on January 5! The podcast, called How I Got Here, traces the journeys of young professionals with interesting jobs at exciting companies like Apple, Instagram, and Goldman Sachs. We’ll follow their paths from college to career, including the lessons they learned along the way, advice they have for others looking to follow in their footsteps, and how entrepreneurship helped them land their dream job.

We’re teaming up with Northwestern Admissions to bring a live event featuring Melissa Kaufman, executive director of The Garage, our podcast’s host, Mike Raab, associate director of The Garage, and special guest Connor Regan SESP ’16, who is featured on the podcast! Catch the event LIVE on YouTube!

Fewer than 10% of decision-makers at U.S. VC firms are women. In this Lunch and Learn talk, Samara Mejia Hernandez KSM ’14 will share advice for women interested in VC including required skills, pathways, and what the job really entails.

Samara is the founder of Chingona Ventures. She has over 15 years of investing, selling and advising experience on both public and private markets and a background in sales, operations and technology at Goldman Sachs. She was an early-stage investor with MATH Venture Partners and is a proud Mexican immigrant and mama to a toddler.