Emily Weinberg ’27 and Skipit Recognized at eMerge America’s Startup Accelerator

Four student- and alumni-startups represented Babson College at the eMerge Americas Conference + Expo, the premier technology conference in Miami.

Emily Weinberg ’27 and her venture, Skipit, were selected as one of the top seven pre-seed startups at the Global Startup Accelerator and Showcase, marking the third year in a row that a Babson startup has placed in the competition. Weinberg is a product of the Summer Venture Program (SVP) at the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and the Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab^® at the Frank & Eileen™ Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership.

“A year ago, I wasn’t sure I could pitch Skipit in a room without my voice shaking,” Weinberg shared in a LinkedIn post. “This week, I did it on a stage, in front of operators and investors from across the hemisphere, and it somehow felt like the most natural thing I’ve done all year.”

The other three Babson startups competing in the eMerge startup program were:

• Aleksandr Malashchenko MBA’24 and ReviMo, which won the B.E.T.A. Challenge in 2024 and participated in SVP
• Steve Marshall MBA’26 and Resilience IQ, a product of the Babson Miami Blended Learning MBA program
• Greg Van Aken MBA’25 and Pipelign, another SVP alumnus who also was selected to Poets & Quants’ Most Disruptive MBA Startups in 2025

At the conference, two leaders of the Blank Center—Executive Director Cindy Klein Marmer MBA’02, P’29 and Alexandra Dunk MBA’22, associate director, entrepreneur programs & engagement—conducted a pre-conference session as part of eMerge’s accelerator programming for the 80-plus businesses in the showcase. Carla Curiel ’05, director of Babson Miami, and Seth Cassel, Babson College Entrepreneur in Residence, joined as breakout room moderators, sharing their own entrepreneur experiences.

Also, Dr. Errol Norwitz, the executive director of the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Babson, and his son, Dr. Nicholas Norwitz, co-founder and chief scientific officer of NeuroVitals and StayCurious Metabolism, were the featured speakers on the Metabolic Health & the Future of Preventative Wellness panel.

Their conversation focused on how to flip the health care paradigm from treatment to prevention, focusing on metabolic health, youth education, and science-based lifestyle change.