🚀 Project Funding & Startup Resources
Venture Lab (UPenn)
Right on campus, there is a hub of entrepreneurship at the Venture Lab. There are various monetary awards throughout the product design process (such as Discover, Design, and Boost awards). There are specific award cycles throughout the year, so make sure to check the timing.
The Venture Initiation Program (VIP) can be even more helpful for evaluating your ideas. VIP Incubator is your launchpad for transforming early-stage ideas into thriving startups with hands-on support, mentorship, and a dynamic entrepreneurial community. VIP-X programming is for after validating your concept and have a prototype.
Venture Lab Applications Page Venture Initiation Program (VIP)
Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship Grant Funding
We provide grant funding opportunities for students seeking to develop innovative high-tech products. In our Engineering Entrepreneurship programs, we teach that entrepreneurship and venture development is an iterative process. Similarly, we believe the funding process also should be iterative with students earning additional funds by demonstrating that the can create value with initial funds. Penn Engineering currently has two funds in place to help students build and investigate high-tech products and ventures: the Berkman Opportunity Fund and the Miller Innovation Fellowship program.
Penn Center for Innovation (PCI)
Looking for legal help on an invention from Penn? Trying to figure out if you still own your IP on your invention here at Penn? Check out the Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) page.
Detkin IP Clini
Through Penn's Law School is a neat program: the Detkin IP Clinic.
The DIPTC is a teaching law firm that allows students to directly service clients under the close supervision of licensed attorneys. The DIPTC provides pro bono (free) transactional patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and privacy counsel to individuals, and non-profit and for-profit ventures in science, technology, business, and the arts.
M&T Innovation Fund (UPenn)
Seed-stage cash grants and venture development for University of Pennsylvania startups. Managed by students in the Jerome Fisher Management and Technology Program.
Penn Health-Tech
Penn Health-Tech connects innovators across the University system and facilitates innovation in medical devices and healthcare technology.