E-Team

7 Steps to Formulating a Successful Exit Strategy

VentureWell’s Christina Tamer identified some important steps startups should take when creating an exit strategy.

Sanergy: Solving the Sanitation Crisis, One Toilet at a Time

Sanergy builds healthy, prosperous communities by making hygienic sanitation affordable and accessible throughout Africa’s informal settlements.

Drinkwell: Cleaning Water, Generating a Profit

VentureWell E-Team Drinkwell is transforming the world’s water crisis into entrepreneurial opportunity.

Impact Inventing: SiNode Systems’ Approach to Sustainable Energy

VentureWell E-Team SiNode Systems developed technology that enables longer-lasting, faster-charging Lithium-ion batteries.

Three Lessons Young Innovators Can Learn from Theranos’ Mistakes

Christina Tamer offers guidance on how early-stage startups can avoid making business and ethical mistakes.

The VentureWell List: 2016

2016 was a banner year at VentureWell, and 2017 is shaping up to be even more exciting. Here’s a quick summary of how we helped grow innovation and entrepreneurship in 2016.

The Five Biggest Challenges Faced by Student Entrepreneurs

We fund some of the nation’s earliest and brightest innovators and entrepreneurs—university students looking to bring inventions to market in order to effect worthwhile social change. This is not an easy proposition.

We Gave Over $200k to Our Latest Cohort of Student E-Teams

VentureWell’s E-Team Student Grant Program targets students with an idea or invention that could potentially solve a real world social need.