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Eight TCU Student Ventures Split $50,000 in University Accelerator Program

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Eight student-created ventures emerged as funding recipients in the 2025 Institute for Entrepreneurship CREATE program’s final pitches in May, dividing $50,000 to help bring their business ideas to life, TCU announced.

CREATE is a cross-campus accelerator program run by the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and led by associate director Paul Evans, and it concluded this year’s program at the end of the spring semester.

TCU said that CREATE, powered by the Shaddock Seed Fund, invited student teams from across the campus to develop and refine their business ventures throughout the school year and then make final pitches before a panel of judges. Ten teams pitched in April, and eight received funding.

 

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