D'Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families

James Schlauch and Apply are working to address the issue of Brain Waste for both job seekers and recruiters.

It’s PCS season, and hundreds of thousands of servicemembers and their families will face the daunting task of moving across state or even national lines. Picking up your entire life and moving every few years is part of the military experience, and most servicemembers and military spouses are familiar with the frustrations and headaches that come along with it. We’ve compiled a list of IVMF alumni running companies right now that want to help your next PCS experience be your best. Give them a look today!

IVMF Bunker Labs is proud to welcome our second cohort of Veterans in Residence since joining Syracuse University’s D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF). These 142 entrepreneurs will spend the next 10 weeks going from ideation or early start up and working toward growth as they acquire basic skills necessary for entrepreneurship and validate their ideas in the marketplace.   

Keith knows the power of bootstrapping, hard-won knowledge from his experiences launching Cayuga Climbs. He brought that same energy to Aedify, managing the basic coding on his own thanks to some experience with Python. Things were moving forward, but as a military spouse and the constant moves that come with it, building a network was proving a challenge.

The D’aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families is proud to welcome 99 AAPI, Black, female, and Latinx entrepreneurs from across the United States to the Breaking Barriers in Entrepreneurship program. These trailblazing entrepreneurs are joining a community of passionate and innovative individuals who are breaking down barriers and creating solutions to today’s business problems. 

In honor of Military Spouse Appreciation Month, we’re looking at some of the standout military spouse founders from our Breaking Barriers in Entrepreneurship (BBiE) and Veterans in Residence (ViR) program participants over the past year. BBiE creates a space for veteran and military spouse entrepreneurs from traditionally underserved communities to come together to support and educate one another in the face of unique challenges, and help spread the word about opportunities. 

In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, we’re looking at some of the standout founders from our Breaking Barriers in Entrepreneurship (BBiE) and Veterans in Residence (ViR) program participants from the AAPI community over the past year. BBiE creates a space for veteran and military spouse entrepreneurs from traditionally underserved communities to come together to support and educate one another in the face of unique challenges, and help spread the word about opportunities. 

For Jasmine Paul, it was her senior year at High Point University just outside Greensboro, North Carolina. She was going to school full time chasing her communications degree, working three jobs, one of which was an internship, and part of the ROTC program. She was about as busy as a person can be. So how did she end up living out of her car?

One of the creative keynotes was Amy Jo Martin’s on her Renegade Thinking philosophy. At Veteran EDGE, she shared the origins behind the brand of “positive disruption” she created in reaction to her time with the NBA helping Shaquille O’Neal learn how to tweet. That formative experience led to a successful career that’s given her the opportunity to work with world-renowned brands such as Hilton Worldwide, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Nike, Dell and more.

Frank spoke to the Veteran EDGE audience about recent innovations in artificial intelligence that promise to be as paradigm-disrupting as the smartphone. The volume of data collection and the speed of the chips to perform the calculations has reached the point where AI technology is on the cusp of being everywhere, in every piece of technology.