Haley Schwartz
FOUNDER of Vertige Adaptive, Inc. and PETE PRIZE Winner 2022

Haley Schwartz earned her AAS in Fashion Design from FIT. As the Grand Prize Winner for the PETE Prize 2022, she is developing her company, Vertige Adaptive, Inc., where she has designed fashion-forward adaptive wear forpeople with different health challenges and disabilities. The launch collection targets people who wear heart monitors, colostomy bags and more. Vertige Adaptive was inspired by Haley's own experience of living with ventricular tachycardia for most of her life, and her inability to find clothes that worked with the heart monitors she had to wear.

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“WE LIVE IN A UNIQUE TIME FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP BECAUSE OF WHAT IS AVAILABLE:  NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE NEW METHODS OF STARTING A BUSINESS.“

Edwin A. Goodman, Co-founder and Investment Partner – Activate Venture Partners