Center for Entrepreneurship acts as Carnegie Mellon's startup accelerator. Jim Swartz, co-founder of Accel Partners, pledged $31 Million to establish a hub for university wide entrepreneurial activities. His gift is the fifth largest Carnegie Mellon has received. In 2016, the center opened providing a business incubator and makerspace. The center employs Entrepreneurs-in-Residence who mentor founders of early stage companies consisting of students, faculty, and alumni. Startups work on their ideas throughout the year culminating at an annual Demo Day where they showcase their company to the public. Carnegie Mellon's alumni, faculty, and staff have founded many notable companies, some of which are shown below. Activision Blizzard, 1979 (as Activision), founding CEO Jim Levy (B.S., M.S.). Adobe Systems, 1982, co-founder Charles Geschke (Ph.D.). Sun Microsystems, 1982, co-founders Vinod Khosla (M.S.) and Andy Bechtolsheim (M.S.). Accel Partners, 1983, co-founder Jim Swartz (M.S.). NeXT, 1985, co-founding VP Engineering Avie Tevanian (M.S., Ph.D.). Microsoft Research, 1991, founder Richard Rashid (Professor) IDEO, 1991, founder David M. Kelley (B.S.). Appaloosa Management, 1993, founder David Tepper (M.B.A). Red Hat, 1993, co-founder Marc Ewing (B.S.). Cognizant, 1994, co-founder Francisco D'Souza (M.B.A). Juniper Networks, 1996, founder Pradeep Sindhu (Ph.D.). Symphony Technology Group, 2002, founder Romesh Wadhwani (Ph.D.). Astrobotic Technology, 2007, founder Red Whittaker (M.S., Ph.D., Professor). Google X, 2010, co-founders Sebastian Thrun (Professor), Yoky Matsuoka (Professor), and Astro Teller (Ph.D.). Nest, 2010, co-founder Matt Rogers (B.S., M.S.). Duolingo, 2011, founders Luis von Ahn (Ph.D., Professor) & Severin Hacker (Ph.D.). Coursera, 2012, founder Andrew Ng (B.S.). Defense Innovation Unit, 2015, founder Maynard Holliday (B.S.) Argo AI, 2016, co-founder Peter Rander (M.S., Ph.D.). Nuro, 2016, co-founder Dave Ferguson (M.S., Ph.D.). Alumni and faculty There are more than 112,000 Carnegie Mellon alumni worldwide with the graduating class of 2021. Alumni and current/former faculty include 20 Nobel laureates, six members of the National Academy of Medicine, 20 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 72 members of the National Academy of Engineering, seven Packard fellows, 142 Emmy Award recipients (including ten time recipient Steven Bochco), 12 Academy Award recipients, 52 Tony Award recipients, two winners of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and 13 Turing Award recipients. Alumni in the fine arts include artists Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, John Currin, Shalom Neuman, Jonathan Borofsky and Burton Morris; authors John-Michael Tebelak and Kurt Vonnegut; Screenwriter Michael Goldenberg; television series creator, Steven Bochco, actors René Auberjonois, Katy Mixon, Holly Hunter, Matt Bomer, and Zachary Quinto, children's