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Blaze Awards
Brings together a variety of student and alumni award opportunities into a single initiative.
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Ignite Fund
Student funding offered monthly that ranges from $100-$1,000.
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President’s Venture Fellowship
Funding for new alumni as they pursue a business venture in Baltimore full-time after graduation.
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Summer Incubator
A six-week, co-working experience for student ventures ready to take a “deep dive” into building their startups.
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Empowering Student, Alumni, and Community Ventures
Featured Ventures
Grounded in Baltimore, with an eye toward the world, the Pava Center convenes diverse stakeholders and resources. We support founders creating value and opportunity; anyone from the curious to the committed is encouraged to plug in and access funding, support, and more.
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Locaze is a mobile app that uses clinically validated eye tests to detect movement deficiencies and assess concussion risk.
- Consumer App
- Medical Technology
Locaze
Locaze is a mobile application that leverages a series of clinically validated ocular tests to track real-time deficiencies in eye movement to provide individuals who have sustained a head injury with a concussion risk assessment.
Red Envelope is a premier on-the-go, self-collapsible, easy-to-use menstrual collection device.
- Consumer Goods
- Environmental Product
Red Envelope
A premier on-the-go menstrual collection device, their platform provides a key bridge for all communities to participate in accessible women’s health innovation. Unlike cups of the past, Red Envelope features a self-collapsible, easy-to-use design that removes the confusion, mess, and stigma from sustainable period care.
Providing a multidisciplinary arts education to youth in underserved communities and to neurodivergent youth and young adults.
- Social Enterprise
RISE Arts Center of Baltimore
Providing a multidisciplinary arts education to youth in underserved communities and to neurodivergent youth and young adults.
“I was able not only to connect and partner with other amazing entrepreneurs, but I was also given the opportunity to step outside of the organization in order to build a solid business foundation. “
Kammeran
InfernoGuard offers software that remotely analyzes large properties to identify site-specific wildfire risks.
- Environmental Product
InfernoGuard
InfernoGuard provides wildfire risk assessment software that remotely analyzes large-scale properties year-round. By evaluating eight environmental and topographical factors at a 1/10-acre resolution, the platform identifies site-specific high-risk areas. This technology is tailored for revenue-generating landowners managing expansive acreage.
Mo.Na. Gems is a biomaterials company creating biodegradable, non-toxic gems to make sustainable jewelry trendy and environmentally friendly.
- Consumer Goods
- Environmental Product
Mo.Na. Gems
Mo.Na. Gems is a biomaterial company innovating a cleaner, more conscious future with a material designed to reduce environmental harm. Mo.Na. Gems has a mission to normalize sustainable jewelry, showing that it can be just as trendy & cute as resin jewelry. They use 100% natural, vegan, and nontoxic ingredients to craft their biomaterial gems (100% biodegradable).
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Driving Change: Social Innovation Lab Founders Address Baltimore’s Toughest Challenges
The 2025–2026 Social Innovation Lab cohort brought together 13 student and community founders tackling challenges in mobility, workforce development, housing, education, and creative economies. At this spring’s showcase, hosted by the Pava Marie LaPere Center for Entrepreneurship, ventures were recognized for both their impact potential and their growth throughout the program.
Athletes Intell: Scaling Mental Performance Training for Student-Athletes
Student-athletes spend thousands of hours training their bodies. Athletes Intell is building the platform to train their minds.
Mental performance is the final frontier of athletic training, and one of the most neglected. At the high school and college levels, only a fraction of student-athletes ever receive formal mindset coaching, leaving them unprepared when adversity hits. Athletes Intell, founded by Matt Chiusano, is building a digital mental performance platform to help athletic departments scale that training for every athlete on their roster. We spoke with Matt.
Give More Than We Get: What Mentorship Means at the Pava Center
Some lessons can’t be taught in a textbook or in a class; they have to be learned the hard way, through tough experiences and challenges overcome. At the Pava Center, mentors provide opportunities for students to engage in lessons drawn from the mentor’s lived experience, offer advice that can change the student team’s trajectory, or simply provide empathetic support to encourage students to keep going. We sat down with alumni Margaret Roth, graduating class of 2011, now Principal at Squadra Ventures, to learn why she gives back at the Pava Center.