VentureWell's Accelerator Programming
Gives student innovators and startups up to $25,000 in grants plus mentorship and investor access.
VentureWell points to its own record to make the case for these programs: more than 2,000 innovators and nearly 1,000 teams have gone through them, raising over $1.3 billion in follow-on funding and launching 530 new businesses. Pioneer and Propel each run three cohorts a year (winter, spring and summer) and focus on concrete outputs -- articulating a value proposition and mapping the industry val…
Open to student innovator teams building science- or technology-based inventions (Pioneer and Propel), and to incorporated, seed-stage startups preparing to commercialize or raise investment (Ascend and Aspire, which run dedicated Climatetech and Medtech cohorts). The programs are open to any science or technology field rather than one specific industry.
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