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#FoundersCouchFriday 🚨New episode out today!🚨 I talked to recent Northwestern University '20 grad Ibraheem Alinur and incoming Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business MBA student Irewole Akande. Hailing from Florida and Nigeria respectively, Ibraheem and Irewole are the cofounders of City Health Tech Inc., a public health startup committed to using technology to build healthier communities and mitigate the global spread of infectious diseases. 💎 So far, they’ve partnered and piloted with over 10 organizations and schools and have deployed and iterated on over 100 prototypes to arrive at their first product — Opal. And, they have raised over $25,000 from a multitude of pitch competitions such as: Northwestern's Wildfire Pre-Accelerator Program, University of Chicago NSF I-Corps Grant, Foxconn Smart Cities—Smart Futures Challenge, and Northwestern VentureCat. 💎 How did Ibraheem and Irewole meet and get the product to where it is today? How did they make use of Northwestern's entrepreneurial resources? And most importantly, what are the challenges of being minority and international founders? 💎 Tune in below & subscribe! https://lnkd.in/eHFRDeF #startup #entrepreneur #student #founder #pitch #covid #minority #international #podcast