The FFU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Challenge brings together a variety of award opportunities into a single event, offering students a streamlined process to access funding to work on their ventures over the summer.

The competition is for any new, for-profit, independent venture in the seed, start-up or early growth stages that is led by an undergraduate women.

Student teams that compete at CMU VC are truly offered a unique value proposition - exposure, funding, and feedback.

We invite students from around the world to pitch ideas for conscious capitalism ventures that make a profit while also solving a problem. Winners take home thousands of dollars to help make their ideas come true.

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Black Ambition’s HBCU Prize will inspire members of the HBCU community to pursue entrepreneurship and provide both funding and support to launch successful businesses.

The Heartland Challenge is designed to simulate the process of raising venture capital for a high-growth venture.

The ClimateTech & Energy Prize at MIT (CEP@MIT) is the longest running and largest climatetech startup competition for university students. Over the past 12 years, 100+ CEP alumni have successfully launched companies and collectively raised over $1.1 billion in follow-on funding. CEP@MIT teams compete for a $100,000 Grand Prize* and other monetary prizes.

The Rice Business Plan Competition is the world’s richest and largest graduate-level student startup competition

Hosted by the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, this student startup competition is open to teams that include at least one degree-seeking undergraduate or graduate student from any college or university. The Tulane Business Model Competition seeks early-stage ventures that can demonstrate how they are adapting to their customers’ needs. The contest rewards those that are creating commercially viable ventures through breaking down an idea into a key business model hypothesis, have tested their assumptions with customers and have applied Customer Development/Lean Startup principles to refine the model for improved success.

We Support the Problem Solvers of Tomorrow with financial aid every semester until graduation and with seed capital for ideas that excite us.

MedTech Innovator is the largest accelerator of medical devices in the world and the medical technology industry’s global showcase and accelerator for innovative medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies.

The MIT Water Innovation Prize is a startup competition focused on water innovation that awards up to $35K in innovation grants annually to student-led teams from across the country and internationally.

The Hult Prize Foundation transforms how young people envision their own possibilities as leaders of change in the world around them. With a US$1,000,000 global startup prize as its anchor activity, the Hult Prize has brought impact-focused programs, events and trainings to over a million students globally, creating a pathway for youth everywhere to take action to build a better world.

The Up/Start Venture Competition, an initiative of MICApreneurship, focuses on incubating and building creative business ventures within the MICA community.

Have an idea on how to improve or change the world? Burning up with ideas to help the environment, society, business, your friends, social media or anything else you can dream up? UMBC wants to give y

Established through a generous multi-year gift from the Bisciotti Foundation, the Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund provides $300,000 seed funding to advance discoveries on a commercial path at

The John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise will host the tenth annual Baylor New Venture Competition on March 25-27, 2021 at Baylor University’s Foster Campus for Business and Innovation. This business plan and elevator pitch competition showcases collegiate entrepreneurial teams from across the globe.

Scale Your Passion (SYP) is a pre-accelerator, imagined and inspired by the Baltimore Creative Community. SYP provides access to content and resources to help guide emerging creative entrepreneurs.

It's National Women’s Small Business Month, and we are doing something BIG to celebrate our newest members! IFundWomen will be awarding six (6) $2,500 grants to idea-stage entrepreneurs in our member network. This grant could be the launchpad that propels your business forward.

here is a lifetime maximum of $12,000 per student for the Entrepreneurs Scholarship.

Do you have an idea for a cool and exciting new business! Are you interested in improving an existing product, or service? Are you looking for extra funding to invest in your business idea? Join the inaugural Idea Lean Poster Competition at Bowie State University (BSU) sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Academy and win up to $3,000. The Competition is open to all students in every major.

The WBENC Cummins Grant for Black Student Female Founders is a new funding initiative to invest in the next generation of the fastest growing segment of women-owned businesses – Black female founders. The grant program will provide $2,000 to $6,000 funding awards to Black female entrepreneurs in STEM currently enrolled in college or university, or a recent college or university graduate.

The University Sustainability Fund provides funding for projects that promote environmental sustainability, and positively impact and enhance the student experience at UMD. The Fund will allocate fu

Have an idea for a new product, service or business? Submit your business plan to CCBC’s Center for Business Innovation Annual Business Plan Competition (BPC) and you could win up to $20,000 in seed money.

Leonard and Phyllis Attman established the Competitive Business Prize in 2011 as a way for UB students and alumni to compete for business venture seed funding. The Leonard and Phyllis Attman Competi

Welcome to EnterpRISE 2020! Since 2017, we've invested $54,000 in Baltimore-based manufacturing companies. But it's not just money -- we take you through four workshops on business topics, mentorship with business leaders, AND give 6 months of free membership to all 10 finalists. This year, we are focusing on Covid-19 manufacturing solutions. Hit us with your ideas for a pandemic-proof future -- PPE, sneeze guards, hand sanitizer, UV disinfecting robots -- and we'll help you make it.

Are you looking for training, technical assistance, mentorship, networking opportunities, or access to capital to make your venture a success? Apply to the Baltipreneurs Accelerator!

Over the course of four weeks, participants will talk to at least 40 potential customers, stakeholders, users, and influencers to determine the real value of their technology.

The Big Idea Competition is an opportunity for AACC students to pitch a unique or original idea via video submitted online.

The W. O. M. E. N Conference is a network of resources that support women in developing and retaining competitive enterprises

A student-led collaborative event that awards cash prizes to teams solving real-world problems using technology.

Unshackled Ventures is launching their University Fellowship for 2020/1: an initiative that allows current university students to learn more about the nature of startups and early stage investing.

Offered in both Fall and Spring, the Spark Accelerator will accept up to 10 idea-stage student teams, across all JHU schools, into a 9-week accelerator program focused on market research and customer validation. . .

What if the most creative minds channeled their focus into solving the most impactful problems of today? Imagine if we could apply the ingenuity that powers the most profound technology into the most

The Entrepreneurship Fellows Program at UB offers a new way to educate the next generation of entrepreneurs. The program balances classroom theory with periods of practical, hands-on experience, prior

The legal challenges facing budding business owners are many, consuming both time and much-needed resources. These challenges can be all the more daunting for student entrepreneurs who, in light of ac

Build out a business model for your idea using the Business Model Canvas and you could win money to help get your idea off the ground and running! Participants put their models on posters, which will

The University Innovation Fellows program was created by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) and funded by a five-year National Science Foundation grant. It is now

The Rise to the Challenge Pitch Competition offers over $20,000 in cash and professional services up for grabs.

Have an idea for a business or a solution to a problem worth solving? Dingman Fridays advising sessions are held every Friday of the semester from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Dingman Center (2518 Van Mun

Thriving businesses and community-based organizations are the engines for strong neighborhoods and healthy communities. Student attorneys in the Small Business and Community Equity Development Clinic wo

I-Corps is a National Science Foundation program designed to foster, grow and nurture innovation ecosystems regionally and nationally.

HBCUvc provides non-dilutive equity funding to student and alumni founders from Historically Black Colleges or Universities.

The Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic ("IPEC") is an expansion of the UMB's law school's existing Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Students in the clinic will explore intellectual pro

Experienced seiral entrepreneurs will serve as your business mentors and will help you figure out detailed plan and next steps in your startup journey. They can help answer many questions about starti

The Entrepreneurship Academy helps students create their own business opportunities or become innovative thinkers and problem-solvers at established companies. Ultimately, the academy strives to becom

The Entrepreneurship Network provides resources and connections for students interested in starting a new business or joining the start-up community. Innovators and entrepreneurs can use these resourc

The hub for student entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore

Presented by the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business, the New Venture Championship is the original six-round business competition for graduate students.

Join us for a chance to build and develop your entrepreneurial talents over a series of workshops hosted at the UB Business Center

One of UMB's top priorities is commercializing innovative technologies discovered by UMB faculty into new therapeutics, vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices, software solutions, and research tools.

A-Level Capital provides seed funding for startups founded by JHU students and young alumni.

The annual spark: Where Fearless Ideas Start is an ideation event during the fall semester co-hosted by the Dingman Center and Startup Shell, a student-run incubator at the University of Maryland. The

BET ON BALTIMORE is our flagship program. It is an intensive, paid, 5-week summer internship that teaches design thinking, making, and entrepreneurship to support students in launching a business or s

The IDEA Space is an idea laboratory that encourages and facilitates interdisciplinary projects among students, faculty, and the larger Loyola community. Every member of the Loyola community is welcom

The nationally recognized Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition, hosted by the Center for Leadership Education, provides an opportunity for students to take a novel idea or innovative tec

A hub and resource network designed exclusively for Johns Hopkins University students, FastForward U provides students with dedicated innovation space. In fall 2018, Johns Hopkins' first student inno

The Grid Pitch is a student event that promotes entrepreneurial ideas. This showcase allows for students to pitch their innovative business ideas to a panel of experts and investors in the entrepreneu

Members of our diverse mentor network work one-on-one with student entrepreneurs to build their confidence, develop their business prowess and connect them to opportunities for funding and more.

FastForward U Friday Office Hours offer a chance for students to meet one-on-one for 30 minutes with experienced entrepreneurs or experts and get feedback and insight on their ventures. The office hou

As the nation's first living-learning entrepreneurship program, Hinman CEOs is a groundbreaking initiative placing entrepreneurial students from all technical and non-technical academic disciplines in

Entrepreneurship URAs provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate researchers to support the development of a solution to either a technical or social problem in collaboration with a UMBC faculty mentor. Th

The UM Ventures, Baltimore Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) announces the availability of funds for translational RandD projects under the UM Ventures Seed Grant Program. This resource is designed t

Do you have an interest in entrepreneurship? Or an innovative idea you want to pitch? What about a problem to solve? Want to hear feedback and network with industry professionals who own and operate b

The DMC is a multimedia lab space as well as an equipment, printing and knowledge resource for JHU students interested in exploring creative uses of emerging media and technology to communicate their

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program (EIP) provides University of Maryland Honors College freshmen and sophomores with an interdisciplinary, living and learning education to help build the entr

Our focus is to accelerate your entrepreneurial endeavors! Youcan bring life to your business concept by taking advantage ofthe UMBC Student Idea Lab and Business Incubator Program. We support UMBC

The first angel investment network for startups with founders from the Johns Hopkins University

OCA Mocha’s mission is to create a shared space and experience that fosters ongoing engagement between UMBC and its surrounding communities. Consistent with that mission, UMBC and community groups may reserve the OCA Mocha community meeting room

At UMD, we cultivate a campus of fearless innovators to reframe and disrupt the norm to bring about change. By empowering students to reimagine the landscape, not blend in, we prepare them to solve th

Terrapin Works is a collection of digital manufacturing resources provided as a service to the campus and surrounding community. These resources range from consumer grade 3D printers to high end produ

The University of Maryland BioPark opened this space in late 2017 to forge connections among social entrepreneurs, and provide community space in Southwest Baltimore. Located inside the Lion Brothers

The Ignite Fund offers Hopkins student entrepreneurs access to funding throughout the academic year. The fund’s purpose is to support discrete tasks that will help move a venture forward. In focusing funding this way, we hope to provide student ventures access to capital at key moments.

We're the hub of entrepreneurial activities and resources helping the TU community to imagine, ignite and transform ideas into action. Make an appointment, attend an event or workshop or just stop by

The Shattuck Family Internship Program for Entrepreneurship Innovation and Social Change prepares UMBC students for the rigors and rewards of entrepreneurship and social innovation.

Fostering entrepreneurial talent, ideas and opportunities through programs, competitions, and the infusion of innovative thinking across campus.

The Community Consulting Lab at the Carey Business School brings together inter-disciplinary teams consisting of graduate students from across Johns Hopkins University to work with local businesses an

About the E-Team Grant Program: Receive an E-Team grant and get training through our early-stage innovator training program. The program provides peer networking, expert coaching, national recognition, and hands-on workshops to move your innovation forward.

The Do Good Accelerator is a collaborative space on campus that supports and helps to scale up students' innovative solutions to our world's most pressing challenges. The Accelerator offers a number o

The Do Good Accelerator is proud to host its Lunch with Leaders Series on the 2nd Wednesday of (almost) every month. This series provides UMD students and members of the local community a chance to me

The REEF Program helps young scientists cultivate the leadership and business skills necessary to bring their research into commercial markets and provides students with an enhanced appreciation of th

Offered in both the fall and spring semesters, the Fuel accelerator will accept up to five student ventures - across all JHU schools - with the goal of providing skill-building workshops, in-kind resources, mentorship and funding in a structured nine-week program.

The CBIC is designed to attract the real entrepreneurs at UMBC, the ones who know they are going to start a company, or in some cases have already. You're the ones this entrepreneurship program was de

The Baltimore and Beyond Conference showcases over 50 student-run ventures from 15+ local colleges and universities. Bringing together nearly 500 attendees, the Baltimore and Beyond conference is one of the. . . .

Morgan State University's Entrepreneurial Center's mission is to connect budding and existing entrepreneurs to resources for venture management and growth

Sandbox is a student-run makerspace for artists, designers, and hackers to create amazing things. Come in with your ideas and build your project.

Dream big, but have a positive impact on the world. That's the idea behind the new, Impact Seed Fund program available to select University of Maryland student entrepreneurs. The Impact Seed Fund off

I-Corps is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Initiative to increase the economic impact of research and social entrepreneurship. This course engages participants to explore their ideas and researc

WomensNet founded the Amber Grant Foundation in 1998. The Foundation was set up with one goal in mind: to honor the memory of a very special young woman, Amber Wigdahl, who died at just 19 years old — before realizing her business dreams. Today, WomensNet carries on that tradition, giving away at $10,000 every month in Amber Grant money. Each of those monthly winners is then eligible for our year-end grant of $25,000.

Cut it. Print it. Be a game changer. With our state-of-the-art tech, the impossible is at your fingertips. At MICA, we understand that creating the future of art requires some seriously cutting edge

The mission of the Entrepreneurial Development and Assistance Center (EDAC) is to connect budding and existing entrepreneurs to resources for venture management and growth.

Startup Shell is the student-run coworking space and incubator at the University of Maryland. We foster entrepreneurship through collaboration.

Contrary Capital is a pre-seed, university-focused VC firm with a nationwide network of 100+ talented students across 40+ of the top entrepreneurship universities. Contrary invests in companies buil

Podcast for entrepreneurs, hosted by Morgan State

Mtech Ventures partners with entrepreneurs to build leading technology companies. With company founders facing challenges such as business planning, staffing, launching, and financing, we provide expe

We recognize that our community of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs are extremely interested in pursuing opportunities within current startup companies. At the same time, the startup companies we engag

The Hatch Innovation Conference is the biggest celebration of entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins. Each spring, Hatch brings dozens of startup companies and renowed innovators to the JHU Homewood campus

In partnership with Twilight Quest, Impact Hub is offering a free four-part series for small businesses seeking to reboot and pivot. These workshops are about exploring ways to adapt to this new reality. We will explore the steps necessary to making sure that your passion doesn’t go to waste by building resilience skills and tools to help weather this storm.