Opportunities

Apply by Sunday, April 26th at 11:59PM PST for $5,000 to support your high risk, high reward projects that embody the Haas Defining Principle to Question The Status Quo. The Trione Student Venture Fund provides a prize package that includes $5,000 to enable experiential learning to 20 early-stage student startups each year. The Sega Sammy Fund for New Media was provides $5,000 awards to four student startups annually that are focused on ventures such as entertainment, gaming, or new technology for use in prototype development and customer discovery. Teams must have at least one current MBA or undergrad Haas student. If the startup results from classwork, a single-page Faculty recommendation will also be required. Awardees will be selected by a committee comprised of Faculty and Institute for Business Innovation leadership along with investors and leaders from the Berkeley entrepreneurship ecosystem. Awards are a one-time contribution. Awardees can apply again for other student experiential learning ventures,…

Prospera Alpha Ventures Fund – Prospera Women is a platform that supports female founders in scaling their startups globally. Apply now for an opportunity to pitch your startup to selected investors from Silicon Valley on March 31stat the InnovateHer Investor Summit in San Francisco.  The best overall pitch will win a trip to Sardinia, Italy to attend InnovateHer Investor Summit in Europe, including roundtrip airfare and hotel accommodations. All applicants will also be eligible for evaluation to receive funding from Prospera Alpha Ventures Fund, which will be announced that evening. Applicant Eligibility – Startups must have: Apply HERE by 11:59PM PT on March 25.

Do you have a startup idea? Are you looking for a proven method to validate your idea? Berkeley NSF I-Corps offers a free remote 10 day course based on Steve Blank’s Lean LaunchPad. The three evening sessions teach you to identify your top customer segment and value propositions, and accelerate finding product market fit. Outside of class, you’ll do at least 20 interviews with potential customers as part of the customer discovery process. Youcan expect to spend 30-35 hours outside of class on interviews.  Eligible teams that complete the course with Hub recommendation might also qualify for the National NSF I-Corps program, which includes a $50,000 National Science Foundation customer discovery grant, or the Hub National program with $5,000 in customer discovery funding. Teams that complete the National program have a much higher funding rate, including SBIR grants and investment, and alumni include Inkspace Imaging (SkyDeck/Bakar Fellow), Correlia Biosystems (Y Combinator), Intropic Materials (Activate Fellow), and Amber Bio (a16z).  UC Berkeley is the lead institution of the NSF I-Corps Hub Northwest.  When: Course sessions are held online April 20, 23,…

The SCET Startup Expo application is now open! To be eligible one team member has to have completed 1 SCET course by the end of Spring 2026 and you cannot be currently working on the project in a  Fall 2025 course. Current students and alumni are eligible to participate. Selected teams will receive 1-1 mentorship from The House Fund prior to the expo. 

With $190,000 in prizes, the DEBUT Challenge is open to undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions for unmet health and clinical problems. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and VentureWell have come together to support the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge, a competition that recognizes undergraduate excellence in biomedical design and innovation. Contact: Jianming, hello@venturewell.org.