ASPIRE Climatetech

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E-Team Program

Bring your innovation to life with funding and entrepreneurship training

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Ascend Medtech Accelerator

Powered by VentureWell and LEAP

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OPEN 2023

Lock in Early Bird and Group pricing by January 31

Deshpande Symposium

Call for Proposals and Award Nominations now open

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Winter 2023 E-Team Cohort

Meet the 31 teams working to solve challenges in the social, health, or environmental sectors

Our Vision

We envision a world in which science and technology innovators have the support, training, and access to networks and resources they need to solve the world’s most difficult problems.

VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and to create lasting impact.

We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique opportunities for STEM students and researchers to fully realize their potential to improve the world.

Early-Stage Innovators

We work directly with a variety of early-stage innovators to help them bring their ideas to market through workshops and training, coaching and mentoring, funding and awards.
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Faculty Initiatives

We support faculty in developing programs that cultivate student innovators and promote institutional change through grants, workshops, training, and conferences.
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I&E Networks

We create and build networks to strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, both nationally and within individual organizations and schools.
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$20M

IN GRANTS AWARDED BY VENTUREWELL

500+

INSTITUTIONS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN OUR PROGRAMS

12,000+

EARLY-STAGE INNOVATORS TRAINED BY VENTUREWELL

$2.6B+

IN FOLLOW ON FUNDING RAISED BY EARLY-STAGE VENTURES WE SUPPORTED

CELEBRATING A YEAR OF IMPACT

Check out our 2021 year in review
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Ideas & Impact

Here are our top stories, new ideas & reflections.

12 Class Activities To Stimulate Inventor-Entrepreneurs

Inventor entrepreneurs are benefitting from cutting-edge I&E classroom exercises used by VentureWell’s faculty grant recipients.

AeroShield: How early-stage support helped researchers embrace entrepreneurship

Learn how early-stage support helped E-Team AeroShield Materials shift their thinking from researchers to entrepreneurs.

Events & Opportunities

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The E-Team Program

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