Pathways
All roads that lead to entrepreneurship come through Venture Lab. To better assist you on your entrepreneurial journey, we've developed five unique pathways to better serve our talented student and alumni communities.
Upcoming Events
Attend a workshop. Register for a Venture Lab event. Apply for funding.
16
November
Board governance is one of the most challenging issues for firms to manage, and social injustice, civil unrest, and the global pandemic have only added complications. Hear experts discuss which issues to address and how investors should interpret success.
20
October
How should businesses evaluate their environmental footprint? Learn about the influence of environmental criteria on a company’s energy use, waste, pollution, natural resource conservation, and treatment of animals.
07
December
The COVID crisis has further emphasized the inequalities between different professions, classes, racial groups, and nationalities. Join us as we re-evaluate how the industry can minimize harm and be a positive force in addressing these challenges.
Quick Start
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If you’re a Penn student working on a company, you’re invited to join Venture Lab’s incubator program, VIP (Venture Initiation Program). Applications for VIP-C (Community) are accepted on a rolling basis.
Take entrepreneurship classes to learn every part of building a business. Work on your startup in class, develop a product, or prepare yourself for a career in startups, private equity & VC, intrapreneurship, or social entrepreneurship.
The Weiss Tech House supports students with a broad range of interests and skills who want to collaborate, explore and learn about entrepreneurship and innovation. We help students in the development and/or commercialization of innovative technologies.
We want to be more interdisciplinary, integrated, and inclusive. Every school at Penn has a wonderful suite of programming to help students with entrepreneurship, but teams and ventures tend to be more effective when we’re cross-disciplinary. We want to ensure that we’re serving a set of students who represent the wide diversity of our Penn population.
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Find out what's happening with founders across the #entrePENNeur community! Want to tell your story? Contact us at venturelab@upenn.edu.
Tangen Hall houses Venture Lab which is a partnership by the Wharton School, Penn Engineering, and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design to consolidate Penn’s startup ecosystem and to provide experiential learning to all Penn students.
Other organizations located in Tangen Hall include the Integrated Product Design master’s level program, the Jay H. Baker Retail Center, the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program, and the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance.
Other organizations located in Tangen Hall include the Integrated Product Design master’s level program, the Jay H. Baker Retail Center, the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program, and the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance.
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