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2026 EVENT ARCHIVE · APRIL 30–MAY 3

Emerging Leaders Spotlight: Inside the Start-Up Journey

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Spotlight Event

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Step inside the entrepreneurial journey with fellow alumni and gain firsthand perspectives you won’t want to miss! Join Phoebe Choi, AB’22, and Camryn Ross, AB’21, Fillow founders and 2021 College New Venture Challenge champions, in conversation with Arjun Kapoor, AB’19, founding partner of Kinetic Partners and founder and former CEO of Scala Computing, for an inside look at how Choi and Ross took a student concept while at the College, raised more than $1 million in preseed funding, and turned it into an award‑winning business. In this candid conversation, the founders share the realities of building an enterprise from the ground up—including what worked, what didn’t, and the lessons that shaped their path—guided by Kapoor’s perspective as both a founder who scaled an enterprise software company and an investor working with early‑stage start-ups.

Alumni Weekend 2027 · April 29–May 2

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