E-Team Grants
Need funding to move your ideas ahead? You’re in luck – the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance has start-up cash.
E-Team grants award up to $20,000 to help develop and test prototypes, conduct market research or pay for legal advice.
The next deadline is Dec. 2, 2011.
If accepted into the program, student teams also will receive business strategy training, and may be selected to present their innovation at NCIIA’s Open Minds annual showcase.
NCIIA has helped launch more than 130 student-led companies.
Visit www.nciia.org/grants
Grow Your Venture
NCIIA’s investment arm, VentureWell, takes NCIIA’s best emerging ventures and grooms them for future external funding and investment.
Students moving through NCIIA’s venture development process, which typically starts in the classroom in an NCIIA-supported experiential course, have access to financial support and business development training, as well as NCIIA’s extensive network of peer inventors, mentors, investors and marketers.
Visit www.nciia.org/ventures
Ambassadors
NCIIA recently appointed a new slate of student ambassadors.
These students are charged with helping student innovators and entrepreneurs on their campuses apply for NCIIA funding and training.
Dee Helton at University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Dmitriy Timerman at Columbia University
Jade Patterson at Washington State University
Jared Goodner and University of Southern California
Jennifer Villalobos at Oregon State University
Jerrid Matthews at University of California-Los Angeles
Joe McMahon at Boston University
Lucy Lan at Wake Forest University
Mariana Prieto at Art Center College of Design
Mariel Bolhouse at University of Texas-Austin
Omoju Miller at University of California-Berkeley
Paxton Maeder-York at Harvard University
Samantha Smith at New York University
E-meet them at http://nciia.wordpress.com
