Supercharging Student Startups
Student startups that aim to give fashion aficionados their own virtual runway and to improve students’ memory of what they’ve learned were selected as the inaugural winners of $20,000 in seed funding through a new program at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. Terp Startup Fellows is launching this week with two student companies: Savvy Tech and […]
NDSU students seeking investors for venture capital fund Pathway Ventures
FARGO – Three North Dakota State University students are seeking to create a $1 million venture capital fund. The founders of Pathway Ventures made their initial public appeal for investors on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the 1 Million Cups Fargo event at The Stage at Island Park. The student-run venture capital group aims to help […]
University of California and Blackstone to expand LaunchPad
The University of California is expanding an entrepreneurial guidance program to almost all of its campuses through a $5 million corporate partnership. The Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s LaunchPad program, which brings startup incubator Techstars’ global network of business mentors to students, will soon be available at all universities in the system except UC Santa Barbara. Victoria Slivkoff, […]
UNB alumnus launches student venture fund
Thanks to UNB alumnus Charles Fraser (BBA ’68), University of New Brunswick students enrolled in the faculty of management’s enhanced venture assessment course will award funding to up to two deserving local start-ups. The Fraser Student Venture Fund gives students the opportunity to research and analyze businesses that are in the start-up stage of development. […]
UW startup, Velocity, holding pitch competition in Toronto
The University of Waterloo’s flagship startup entrepreneurship program, Velocity, is bringing its pitch competition to Toronto. The competition, which showcases 10 Canadian startups poised to advance the innovation economy, will be held on Sept. 19, 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in the Toronto Reference Library. The startups will […]
Johns Hopkins is launching an accelerator for student startups
As students are returning for the semester at Johns Hopkins University, a new accelerator is launching for those who are forming new ventures. Run by JHU’s student entrepreneurship-focused FastForward U, the accelerator will be a nine-week program taking place each semester for student startup teams. It’s split into two tracks, dubbed “Spark” and “Fuel.” Teams who participate […]
Innovation Primer – How Oxford University Is Preparing Students For Entrepreneurial Life
There can’t be a university in the land that hasn’t spent the last decade or so encouraging its researchers to spin out their cutting edge work into tech startups. The journey looks something like this. A group of researchers make a breakthrough in the lab – let’s say in a field such as A.I. or […]
Entrepreneurship Club students help transfer Princeton biotech research to business ventures
This is notable, because this is the type of project that MBA students normally undertake as part of their curriculum. But Alimtas did it, outside of class, on top of full course loads. “This sort of program — teams of students working with a tech transfer office to build out a business plan around a […]
OSU investment fund fuels aspirations of student entrepreneurs
The Riata Center for Entrepreneurship in the Spears School of Business awarded a total of $75,000 to three teams of Oklahoma State University student entrepreneurs this summer in the first round of a new investment fund designed to invest in budding student-led businesses. Called the Riata Pre-Seed Fund, the innovative financial tool invests in student […]
Pitching competition will highlight Iowa State innovation, entrepreneurship State University
More than 150 Iowa State University entrepreneurs will pitch their ideas to visitors at the ISU exhibit during this month’s Iowa State Fair. The exhibit, “The Great Iowa State Pitch Off: STANDING InnOVATION!,” will be in the Varied Industries building at the Iowa State Fair, held Aug. 8-18. The theme of Iowa State’s fair exhibit […]