Ventures

Venture Development Training and Resources for Faculty & Students

NCIIA provides the training, support and resources you need to advance your idea or venture, no matter the stage of development you're at.

Invention to Venture Workshops

Your journey starts here. Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Invention to Venture (I2V) is a one-day workshop on the basics of technology entrepreneurship, with presentations by successful entrepreneurs in your area. Fast-paced and fun.

Since 2003, over 100 I2V workshops have been held in such technology hot-spots as Boston, MA, Fresno, CA, Chicago, IL and Orlando, FL. The introductory I2V teaches technology entrepreneurship basics, helps build networks and provides a framework for moving ideas forward. This year several specialized workshops will also be offered. Learn more at invention2venture.org.

Invention to Venture workshops are targeted at:

Students and faculty interested in technology entrepreneurship and how to commercialize research
Members of the university community who are entrepreneurially ambitious
Business people seeking connections with university students and faculty
Investors seeking high growth potential companies
Businesses seeking to identify new technology opportunities

Want to attend an I2V? Check the events listing to the left or go to the Invention to Venture website.

Are you a faculty member wanting to introduce the concepts of entrepreneurship to your students? Host an I2V! Contact us for details.

Advanced Invention to Venture Workshops

Accelerate your venture. So you’ve got a great idea for a venture. Now what? If you’re serious about moving your venture forward, Advanced Invention to Venture (AI2V) is for you. You’ll spend four intense days receiving instruction, doing exercises, practicing pitching and interacting with qualified coaches to develop and articulate a strategic plan for your venture.

Startup teams often get caught up in hectic, day-to-day activities and don't stop to analyze the business opportunity and develop breakthrough strategies that will propel their ventures forward. AI2V is a unique opportunity for your startup to set aside a few days and conduct critical and strategic thinking about your venture with assigned mentors and coaches who are accomplished entrepreneurs in your industry. Developed by NCIIA, AI2V is for company founders who have committed to start a company around their technology.

AI2V provides a more thorough review of the subject matter with hands-on exercises that make the materials pertinent to each participating team's venture. Limited class size and hand-picked mentors and speakers provide startups a unique venture acceleration opportunity. After four days of intensive class time and several weeks of coaching and strategy sessions, teams participate in an investor pitch before custom-matched angel investors and VCs.

Our instructors, coaches, and mentors will help you formulate your plans to raise money, recruit team members, and further develop your technology. This world-class venture accelerator workshop has helped advance early-stage startups to shorten their time to market with proven results. Participants have called it the single most important turning point for their startups.

Are you a faculty member with student teams who have ideas with commercialization potential? Host an AI2V! Contact us for details! Learn more here.

Venture Well

Take it to the next level. Venture Well provides venture development and seed investment to start-ups that will change the world. We select ventures that are emerging from U.S. universities and colleges and that are ready for incorporation and development. We provide advice and funding to ventures that offer scalable, market-oriented solutions to health and environmental problems.

Attend the 2010 Venture Well Forum Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at the NCIIA Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA.

Learn more at www.venturewell.org