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Funding Opportunities
Funding opportunities for student entrepreneurs.
Eship@RPI supports student entrepreneurs as they seek to learn more about the business aspects of start-ups and early stage companies. Faculty and experienced entrepreneurs mentor students who are developing business plans or who want to work with early stage companies.
Rensselaer Entrepreneur Internship Program (REIP)
Designed to assist students in the understanding of the opportunities and challenges of a startup or early stage company.
Venture BPlan Series
The Center for Economic Growth's forum offers a first-look for the business community at the best and brightest early-stage growth companies in our region. Up to two businesses present each session to a panel of investment experts. This forum offers visibility for entrepreneurs to the region’s angel and institutional investors, business service providers, advisors, students, faculty, alumni and the early-stage business community.
Grant Programs
VentureWell E-Team Program provides a chance to move new tech ideas out of the lab and classroom and into the marketplace. Funding up to $25,000 per team.
With $65,000 in prizes, the DEBUT challenge is open to undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems
NSF Innovation Corps programs
I-Corps Site program: teams explore (at a high level) the market-readiness of their technology concepts using nationally adopted tools. This training is conducted in a local setting and prepares teams for the I-Team program. Up to $3,000 avaiable per team.
I-Corps Team program: provides real-world, hands-on, immersive learning about what it takes to successfully transfer knowledge into products and processes that benefit society. This training is conducted at a national level. $50,000 per team.
SBIR is a highly competitive program that encourages small business to explore their technological potential and provides the incentive to profit from its commercialization. Up to $1,000,000 per team.
Crowd Funding
A funding platform for creative projects. Offering a new way to fund and follow creativity.
The world's largest global funding platform. Founded on the principles of opportunity, transparency, and action.
Investment platform for startups and investors.
Unlike crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter, people who invest through AngelList get a stake in the startup, although terms vary per company and per deal. AngelList has a minimum of $1,000 investment and is free for startups and investors.