Our Vision
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.Learn More
Faculty Initiatives
We support faculty in developing programs that cultivate student innovators and promote institutional change through grants, workshops, training, and conferences.Learn More
I&E Networks
We create and build networks to strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, both nationally and within individual organizations and schools.Learn More
$11.1MM+
IN GRANTS TO TEAMS OF STUDENT INVENTORS & ENTREPRENEURS$11.1MM+
IN GRANTS TO FACULTY TO TRANSFORM I&E EDUCATION2,350+
TEAMS OF INNOVATORS HAVE WORKED WITH US977+
VENTURES HAVE EMERGED FROM OUR GRANTS OR TRAININGIdeas & Impact
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4 strategies to integrate ethics into entrepreneurship education
We interviewed three leaders in entrepreneurship education about several ways to teach tomorrow’s entrepreneurs about ethics.
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weaving environmental innovation into visions of the future: q&a with Taryn Mead of Western Colorado University
Taryn Mead of Western Colorado University teaches students entrepreneurship concepts through an environmental innovation lens, helping them envision their contribution to a more sustainable future.
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five startups innovating infection prevention
VentureWell-supported innovators developing solutions to end the spread of diseases worldwidelearn more
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faculty online learning series
webinars, guides, and other resources to help you design your online virtualized class or eventlearn more
funders & partners
