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Venture
Opportunities
NCIIA - Venture
Well
Seed investment for emerging student
entrepreneurs from the NCIIA's new Venture Well program!
Venture Well is a new program of the
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA).
Venture Well will provide venture
development and seed investment to select university student entrepreneurs. The
focus of Venture Well is on ventures that are creating scalable,
market-oriented solutions to health and environmental problems.
Venture Well has two
components:
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First, on March 21, 2009, we'll
bring together ten student venture teams in the inaugural Venture Well Forum,
in Washington, DC (at the end of the NCIIA annual conference). Venture Well
teams will be connected with advisors and investors at the event, and will also
participate in our Advanced Invention to Venture program and other advisory
services intended to help move them up the development curve.
Please encourage your students to
visit the Venture Well website and
apply online to be considered as part of the 2009 Venture Well cohort. Deadline
for applications is December 19, 2008.
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Second, all selected teams will be
eligible for equity investment by NCIIA. In addition to our existing grants
program, NCIIA will now be making select seed investments in eligible
companies. These investments will be made through the 2009 year, on a
case-by-case basis.
If you have any questions, please
contact:
- Joseph Steig
- Venture Development
Manager
- NCIIA
- 617/500-7376
- jsteig -at- nciia.org
PS: If you would like to attend the
Venture Well Forum yourself on March 21st (immediately following the NCIIA
conference, and in the same location), send me an e-mail and I'll get you an
invitation-we have limited space for this event.
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