Customer Discovery: Do’s and Dont’s

Customer interviews can tell entrepreneurs whether their idea is worth pursuing. Here’s how to do them the right way.

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Aspire Medtech

Are you part of a medtech startup? Prepare for investor engagement with this five-week hybrid program.

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Ocean Enterprise Accelerator

The startups chosen for the Fall 2026 Stage 0 cohort are helping strengthen our growing blue economy.

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Using AI To Pitch Without Losing Your Edge

Startup investor and advisor Brian Kerns shares how founders can stand apart in a sea of sameness.

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New NAI Ambassador

The National Academy of Inventors named VentureWell’s Phil Weilerstein an inaugural National Invention Ambassador.

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DEBUT Challenge 2026

This year’s winners secured prizes totaling $190,000 for their solutions focused on urgent healthcare challenges.

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Ecosystem Futures Catalyst Grant

These faculty teams will receive strategic support and funding to advance their STEM ecosystem work.

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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.

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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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1,300+

Institutions Have Participated in Our Programs

21,000+

Early-Stage Innovators Trained by VentureWell

$9.8B+

in Follow-On Funding Raised by Early-Stage Ventures We Supported

Ideas & Impact

Here are our top stories, new ideas & reflections.

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Lead the future of innovation at your higher education institution.
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