Adventures in innovation: Penn Engineering startups lead Venture Lab Challenge
A trio of Penn Engineering startups took home more than $100,000 at the annual Venture Lab Startup Challenge. Sync Labs, whose AI assistant, Alice, is enhancing caregiving for seniors, claimed the Richard and Ellen Perlman Grand Prize, as well as three other awards. Quok.it, which helps customers leverage unused computing power around the world for tasks like AI training, earned the William G. Simpson and R. Drew Kistler Runner Up Prize.