This tool brings together all the entrepreneurial resources available at Penn, in the Philadelphia region, and at Wharton San Francisco.
Just getting started with entrepreneurship? Try these 5 resources.
Use this tool to find the resources that meet your needs, and get in touch with them directly. Good luck, entrepreneurs!
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- Blue are Penn resources; yellow are regional resources.
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Build an amazing startup in Philadelphia, all over the course of one weekend.

$10,000 to work on your startup over the summer

Local technology news and events

Club for students who love tech & entrepreneurship

Northwest Philly center for educating & connecting entrepreneurs of any age

Hub for innovation, entrepreneurship & technology development

Bringing together Penn faculty & entrepreneurs

Incubator with community, space, support, & resources

Accelerator with funding, space, mentorship, & connections

Accelerator with funding, space, mentorship, & community

Collaborative workspace & coworking community

Student-run hub of tech innovation

Awards for innovative ideas

5 week incubator with space & mentoring

Learn to develop, launch, fund, & grow your own business--online

Learn to create a social enterprise--online

Customer analytics assistance for your startup

Workshops covering startup fundamentals

Club for students interested in entrepreneurship

The Wharton MBA for working professionals

The first student-led FinTech club

SF has many, many resources for entrepreneurs: here are 50

January break program learning about the tech sector in SF

Lab of experimental & high-performance 3D printers

Design thinking to drive innovation

Scaling women-founded businesses

How to major in entrepreneurship

Conference bringing entrepreneurs & investors together

Career & educational opportunities in private equity & venture capital

App idea competition

Global awards for innovative higher education pedagogies

Wharton classes & community on the West Coast

Pro bono legal advice & support for student entrepreneurs

Club for students with an interest in social impact

Funding, business & technical expertise for early-stage, technology-based firms

Developing & promoting business strategies for a better world

Coworking community, event venue, & media platform for entrepreneurs

Club for students interested in tech

Creating new strategies to improve health care delivery & patient outcomes

Conference for the tech industry & Wharton students

Certificate in engineering entrepreneurship

Undergraduate club for students interested in entrepreneurship

Resources from the city of Philadelphia to help you plan, launch, & manage your business

How to specialize in entrepreneurship

Green coworking space for professionals who care about sustainability

Wharton research to develop practical approaches to managing innovation

Competition to create a viable commercial application for Penn research

A crowdfunding accelerator program

Affordable shared management resources to the arts, heritage, & creative communities

Penn Law students provide pro bono intellectual property law services

Medical device idea competition

Comp Sci club with hackathons, tech treks, startup happy hour, etc.

Students investing in student-run companies

The only growth accelerator designed for mature startups

Interactive "unconvention" for entrepreneurs

Incubator & seed fund for solving education's most difficult problems

Annual 2-minute pitch competition

Department for those with a passion for tech innovation

Undergraduate minor in engineering entrepreneurship

Cultivating & investing in minority entrepreneurs

Supporting the creation & development of high growth firms in Philly

Source for Philly startups & entrepreneurs looking to launch, grow, & run a business

Legal advice for Philly entrepreneurs from Drexel students

Live with other entrepreneurs & innovators

1-on-1 advising with experts & alumni entrepreneurs

Information, research assistance, & networking opportunities for entrepreneurs

weeklong modular course in a country facing business challenges of interest

7 days of practical training in social entrepreneurship

12-week program for seed-stage social entrepreneurs

Incubator for health innovation startups

Certificate in healthcare mgt, entrepreneurship, & tech

BSN-to-PhD program for innovative nursing students

Hackerspace in South Philly, for those who tear things apart & put them together in new ways

Support for social entrepreneurs & impact investors building sustainable businesses

Luxury coworking office space

Close-knit coworking community

Undergraduate program in engineering & business

Amazing research resource for entrepreneurs at the Penn Libraries

Tech community center with space & computer equipment

Master's in education entrepreneurship

Funds for innovative ideas

Privately-owned VC for the Penn community

Education startup competition

The tools to properly analyze & design complex networks

Collaborative makerspace with digital & traditional fabrication tools

Master's degree in Nonprofit Leadership

Support for health, wellness, & nutrition startups

A network of passionate, engaged and active Philadelphia citizens

Website dedicated to helping you build & expand your business in Pennsylvania

Experiential education in developing commercialization strategies

Grad student org for those in the biotechnology industry

Penn’s one-stop-shop for commercialization & entrepreneurship.

Penn Law students provide pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs

Club for serious student founders

NSF program for commercializing University research

Entrepreneurship & innovation conference

Resources for business plan writing, strategic planning, financing, franchising & more

Support & resources for all Penn entrepreneurs

Funds for innovative ideas

7 days of practical training in social entrepreneurship

The nation's first student-run college hackathon

Funding & support for healthcare innovation

Business incubator & lab for the commercialization of Penn research

Tech innovation competition

Content and connections to capital, coaching, & customers for entrepreneurs

Weekly guide to local entrepreneurship events

Monthly Meetup to help build a sustainable technology industry in Philly

Connecting the Philly entrepreneurial community

Annual week-long celebration of technology & innovation in Philly

Monthly Meetup to talk tech over breakfast

Award for graduating seniors with a local, national or global engagement project

Award for graduating seniors with a startup that "does good"

Incubator for digital media startups

Lounge, programs, & events for Philly's entrepreneurship & innovation communities

Annual event for organizations that support the Philly innovation economy

Consulting for Philly region entrepreneurs

All the education, information, & tools necessary to build a successful business in PA

Undergraduate program in bioscience & management

SF resources to encourage & support small business success

Workshops for Philly region entrepreneurs

Scaling advice from successful alumni entrepreneurs

1 week in Costa Rica + 5 months at Penn to found your social venture

Accelerator with funding, space, mentorship, & connections

Pitch for seed funding at Singh Nano Week

MBA students spend a fall semester in SF

Free business advice for entrepreneurs

State-of-the-art equipment for nanoscale characterization, measurement, & fabrication

Annual conference for nanotechnology innovation

Camden-based incubator

Annual fair for startups & students who want to work at them

Events connecting local students with businesses & entrepreneurs in Philly

Competition for student startups

Philly chapter of startup community of 400,000 founders in over 200 cities

Support for student interns at startups

Supporting entrepreneurs across the city of Philadelphia

Early-stage investment capital for emerging technology companies in Philly

The best student entrepreneurs pitch to successful entrepreneurial alumni