Kenechukwu Uwajeh and Sherrod Crum founded the Black Entrepreneurs Initiative to promote, develop and connect Black student-entrepreneurs at Carolina.
Not your traditional student organization, the Product Management Club gives student-innovators and entrepreneurs real-world experience with product management, while developing exciting new features for local tech startups.
Founded in fall 2019, the club aims to build a product culture within UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Computer Science and ultimately at the University as a whole. The club attracts students interested in entrepreneurship, user experience design, software engineering at startups and those interested in product management roles.
After spending the early days of the pandemic working out in her living room, Anna Shuford channeled her frustrations with virtual workout programs into market research and came up with a solution that improved the experience for everyone.
Her company, BOOMROOM, is an online fitness platform that helps simplify the process for fitness instructors teaching live virtual workouts. It provides scheduling, booking and payment tools for trainers, plus analytics, direct communication channels with their clients and integration with Spotify.
Carolina alumnus and second-year UNC School of Medicine student Nehemiah Stewart is empowering the next generation of leaders through his startup, Level the Playing Field.
The organization works with faculty, staff, alumni and corporate partners across the nation to recruit minority students from HBCU‘s and other institutions, train them in professional development skills and place them into influential internships at some of the top corporations in the nation.