When it comes to MBA student startups, you can’t blame customers and investors for being skeptical. It would be an understatement to say Rooney is committed to his customers. A 2023 graduate of the University of Virginia’s Darden School, Lee discovered a “glaring gap in the market” during his Google internship two summers ago.
The MIT PKG IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge 2023 awarded grants of more than $60,000 to eight teams, empowering student innovators to partnering with communities to tackle a range of pressing social challenges.