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.
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November
Jeremy Sicklick, WG'02
Founder & Principal, For the Win
Jeremy Sicklick is the co-founder and CEO at House Canary. Founded in 2013, valuation-focused real estate brokerage HouseCanary provides software and services to reshape the real estate marketplace. Financial institutions, investors, lenders, mortgage investors, and consumers turn to HouseCanary for industry-leading valuations, forecasts, and transaction-support tools. These clients trust HouseCanary to fuel acquisition, underwriting, portfolio management, and more.
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Founder & Principal, For the Win
Jeremy Sicklick is the co-founder and CEO at House Canary. Founded in 2013, valuation-focused real estate brokerage HouseCanary provides software and services to reshape the real estate marketplace. Financial institutions, investors, lenders, mortgage investors, and consumers turn to HouseCanary for industry-leading valuations, forecasts, and transaction-support tools. These clients trust HouseCanary to fuel acquisition, underwriting, portfolio management, and more.
Register for a 1:1 session
Register for group Lunch and Learn
17
November
Arina Shulga, L'02
Partner, McCarter & English LLP
Arina is a corporate and securities lawyer with extensive experience representing startups and emerging growth companies from formation through initial rounds of financing and beyond, ensuring that the companies are well protected and enabled to grow and succeed. She also advises angel investors and venture capital funds in making investments.
For her clients in the technology space, Arina drafts and negotiates complex software license agreements, master services agreements, support level agreements, software escrow agreements, purchase orders, and terms of use for technology company clients.
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Partner, McCarter & English LLP
Arina is a corporate and securities lawyer with extensive experience representing startups and emerging growth companies from formation through initial rounds of financing and beyond, ensuring that the companies are well protected and enabled to grow and succeed. She also advises angel investors and venture capital funds in making investments.
For her clients in the technology space, Arina drafts and negotiates complex software license agreements, master services agreements, support level agreements, software escrow agreements, purchase orders, and terms of use for technology company clients.
Register for a 1:1 session
Register for group Lunch and Learn
18
November
Sanyogita Shamsunder, WG'08
VP Prod. Strategy, Innov., and Ops - Verizon
Sanyogita Shamsunder is a strategic Telecom, and Wireless Executive and Board Director with 20+ years of experience leveraging technology and innovation to scale growth in start-ups to Fortune 500 companies like Verizon, Lucent-Bell Labs and start-ups.
Sanyogita is the Vice President of Product Strategy, Innovation and Operations at Verizon. In this role, she leads the new product, platform strategy, product security and operations team for the $240B consumer wireless, enterprise technology leader Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ). As the Vice President, she sets the strategy and incubates new technology programs, and leads product security for all of Verizon products. She serves as an advisor to various startups that engage through the 5G labs and other programs. She manages a budget of high double-digit $M and leads a team of 150+ technology, security, and operations professionals.
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VP Prod. Strategy, Innov., and Ops - Verizon
Sanyogita Shamsunder is a strategic Telecom, and Wireless Executive and Board Director with 20+ years of experience leveraging technology and innovation to scale growth in start-ups to Fortune 500 companies like Verizon, Lucent-Bell Labs and start-ups.
Sanyogita is the Vice President of Product Strategy, Innovation and Operations at Verizon. In this role, she leads the new product, platform strategy, product security and operations team for the $240B consumer wireless, enterprise technology leader Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ). As the Vice President, she sets the strategy and incubates new technology programs, and leads product security for all of Verizon products. She serves as an advisor to various startups that engage through the 5G labs and other programs. She manages a budget of high double-digit $M and leads a team of 150+ technology, security, and operations professionals.
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Register for group Lunch and Learn
03
December
Richard Cohen, W'92
Partner, Duane Morris
Richard L. Cohen concentrates his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities, venture capital/emerging companies, private equity, general corporate law and business counseling. His client base includes a broad range of business entities, both public and private, including biotechnology and technology companies, telecommunications companies, energy companies, manufacturing companies, insurance companies and venture capital firms. He is a 1995 graduate of New York University School of Law and a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board.
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Partner, Duane Morris
Richard L. Cohen concentrates his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities, venture capital/emerging companies, private equity, general corporate law and business counseling. His client base includes a broad range of business entities, both public and private, including biotechnology and technology companies, telecommunications companies, energy companies, manufacturing companies, insurance companies and venture capital firms. He is a 1995 graduate of New York University School of Law and a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board.
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03
January
VIP Fellows are students interested in working at an early-stage venture,
particularly as one of the first employees, or in joining an early-stage
venture as a co-founder. VIP Fellows is an opportunity for these students to
learn about startup life, be educated about critical concepts in venture
creation, and apply skills learned in their entrepreneurship and innovation
classes to a specific project connected to a student-founded venture in the
Venture Initiation Program.
View Featured Companies and Apply
Questions: Contact Valentina Goutorova, Director, Venture Lab
particularly as one of the first employees, or in joining an early-stage
venture as a co-founder. VIP Fellows is an opportunity for these students to
learn about startup life, be educated about critical concepts in venture
creation, and apply skills learned in their entrepreneurship and innovation
classes to a specific project connected to a student-founded venture in the
Venture Initiation Program.
View Featured Companies and Apply
Questions: Contact Valentina Goutorova, Director, Venture Lab
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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