MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship

Supports MIT students through entrepreneurship education, mentorship, and venture acceleration programming.

MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship is MIT Sloan's flagship entrepreneurship hub. It teaches entrepreneurship as a craft through courses, co-curricular programs, mentorship, and the MIT delta v summer accelerator. The center is tied to MIT's own community, not a traditional grantmaking foundation open to outside applicants.

Its direct cash support is concentrated in delta v, which is listed at $75,000 equity-free per team. The associated MIT $100K competition sits under its own student-led domain, so it should not be treated as the center's own award route. The notes also place the center's leadership in the hands of Bill Aulet and Scott Stern, with Florence Sender and Edward B. Roberts named as co-founders.

That makes the center most useful to current MIT students and related participants who need venture education, mentorship, and structured validation more than standard grant funding. Its role is to help teams move from idea to execution inside MIT's ecosystem, where the program design is intentionally tight and institution-specific.