MIT Energy Club

The MIT Energy Club connects students, alumni, and community members who are passionate about energy. Since 2004, the Energy Club has been MIT's central platform for discussions about energy at the world's leading technical institute. As the club with the largest reach on campus, we are a hub for thought-leadership and relationship building. Join our powerful community today.

Energy for Human Development (e4Dev)

e4Dev is the leading network for MIT students and researchers working on pressing issues related to delivering energy services in the developing world.

Flux Accelerator

The first on-campus accelerator built for undergraduates. It runs during the school year on a rolling basis. Team goes beyond mentorship by actually working with students on marketing, branding, product design, financials, funding, etc. Startups have gone on to prestigious accelerators such as Y Combinator

Food and Agriculture Club

The MIT Food and Agriculture Club aims to bring together MIT students and the greater MIT and Boston community to tackle complex, systemic issues in the areas of food and agriculture

InnovateEDU

Founded in fall of 2016 by the four partner schools Northeastern, Emerson, Boston University, and MIT, InnovateEDU is the first student-run organization focused on bridging different entrepreneurship programs from colleges and universities in the Boston area. In a semester-long timeframe, student teams from these partner schools create a business concept & develop a business plan, all while being exposed to entrepreneurial opportunities at each school and within Boston.

MIT Biotech Group

The MIT Biotechnology Group aims to increase the pace of biotechnological innovation by building strong, symbiotic relationships between the MIT community and thought-leaders in academia, industry, and business. We endeavor to serve the MIT community by facilitating development of the knowledge, skills, networks, and experiences to prepare members for biotechnology-related careers.

MIT CHIEF (MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum)

Founded in 2011 by a group of MIT students, MIT-CHIEF is a not-for-profit student organization registered at MIT. We are committed to promoting intellectual exchanges and collaborations between China and the United States in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.

MIT Entrepreneurs Club

The E-Club was founded in 1988 to serve MIT, Harvard and Wellesley students, faculty, staff, alumni and select professionals. Members represent a range of experience and backgrounds including business, engineering, arts and sciences.

MIT FinTech Club

An initiative of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, MIT FinTech aims to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in financial technology and innovation on campus. MIT FinTech believes the Institute is uniquely positioned to create successful entrepreneurs and innovators in financial services. The group’s objective is to foster the MIT community’s endeavors in this space through a range of activities spanning all stages of entrepreneurial development: community creation, ideation, courses, competitions, industry connections and early-stage incubation.

MIT Sloan Healthcare Club

We bring together a community of diverse healthcare professionals. Students come together from a variety of backgrounds in life sciences, healthcare, and other industries to pursue careers across the healthcare ecosystem, make an impact, and lead the next generation of healthcare companies.

MIT Ventureships Club

MIT Ventureships Club is a MIT club with the mission to share start-up opportunities with MIT students and connect them with founders. In doing this, we hope to help hatch more brilliant MIT ideas into start-ups and propel the start-up ecosystem evolution at MIT. We offer opportunities to MIT students for immersion into real world start-up experiences through differently featured programs; the Ventureships Club holds semester-long programs and partners with the MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS).

MIT Waste Alliance

MIT Waste Alliance is a Boston-based group focused on the following issues: - Waste management & reduction - Materials recovery ​- Sustainable materials & product design

MIT Water Club

MIT Water is the premier network for water research and innovation at MIT. Our mission is to bring together creative, passionate, and motivated individuals to explore ways by which research, innovation, and policy can help solve the most pressing challenges in the water sector.

Sloan Business Club

Sloan Business Club (SBC) is MIT’s premier undergraduate business organization. Through an extensive selection of events, they work to provide 1,600+ members with both an expansive business network and a solid mentorship base, enabling students to fully utilize their academic backgrounds in launching strong businesses.

Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development

The Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development (SEID) is a student-led organization that shares this vision. We are a group of over 130 students who seek to drive sustainable global development through entrepreneurship, by fostering productive collaborations between students and new ventures in emerging markets and by raising awareness of current challenges and success models.

MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

The mission of the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan is to deliver the best education, apply academic rigor to real world challenges, and empower leaders everywhere to take action, professionally and personally, so that humans and nature can thrive for generations to come.

MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship Club

The E-Club was founded in 1988 to serve MIT, Harvard, and Wellesley students, faculty, staff, alumni and select professionals. Members represent a range of experiences and backgrounds including business, engineering, arts, and sciences. Many MIT and Harvard startups have recruited club members as $100K team members, co-founding partners, and equity-sharing employees. The club focuses on helping to develop all aspects of science, engineering, and technology business creation.

MIT Sloan Tech Club

The mission of the MIT Sloan Tech Club is to enable the Sloan community to build a successful career in tech by sharing knowledge, providing meaningful and relevant opportunities and gaining access to a wide network in the industry.

Sloan Women in Management

Sloan Women in Management works to increase opportunities for all women at MIT Sloan through networking events, speaker series, professional development workshops, and mentorship programs.

StartLabs

StartLabs is a hub of undergraduate entrepreneurship activity at MIT. We host community events for student entrepreneurs to meet one another and find co-founders or early hires, and large, campus-wide events to increase student interest in entrepreneurship. We connect student startups to resources across campus or in industry, and help them increase publicity and exposure through our channels. Our goals are to educate members in material relevant to becoming successful entrepreneurs, to increase undergraduate interest in entrepreneurship, and to help student startups become successful.

TechX

We are a student-run organization that aims to empower MIT students by bringing cutting-edge technology, new ideas, and top tech-innovators to campus.

MIT Venture Capital & Private Equity (VCPE) Club

The MIT Venture Capital & Private Equity (VCPE) Club is one of MIT’s largest and most visible cross-campus organizations with over 425 members. Our mission is to assist our members with learning the ins-and-outs of private investing - everything from building a framework for analyzing businesses to preparing for interviews to diving deep into relevant investment themes.

Women Business Leaders

MIT Women Business Leaders establishes a network of women undergraduates, faculty, alumnae and professionals to empower women in their business endeavors and support them in the development of their careers. We support our members in their personal and professional pursuits during and after their years at MIT.

MTC Entrepreneurs-in-Residence

Vision. Leadership. Collaboration. The Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program is a centerpiece of the Trust Center. Here, accomplished business leaders advise students on the challenges—and benefits—of startup life, stoking passions and propelling a culture of innovation. Each EIR brings a vast body of knowledge and singular work experiences to their role. No matter which EIR they speak to, our students are guaranteed to receive something only the Trust Center can provide at MIT: personalized, professional advice focused solely on what is in the best interest of their venture in its current stage.

MTC Professional Advisors

Professional Advisors at the Martin Trust Center are highly experienced professionals in innovation and entrepreneurship related fields, often with specific skills or sector / industry based domain experience, who volunteer their time to meet with students on an as-needed basis.

MIT Proto Ventures

Administered by the MIT Innovation Initiative, and led by Venture Builders, the MIT Proto Ventures Program will oversee the emergence of new ventures along a full lifecycle: from discovery of ideas and resources within the MIT community; exploration of the problem-solution space; a methodical de-risking process; and helping build a “proto venture” that demonstrates the viability of the venture and the robustness of the technology.

Venture Mentoring Service (VMS)

VMS is open to all Boston-based members of the MIT community (students, faculty, post docs, staff and alumni) who have ideas and want to start businesses or non-profits. MIT's Venture Mentoring Service has attracted a dynamic group of volunteer mentors who give their time so that others may succeed.

Lightspeed Summer Fellowship

Lightspeed's 8-week Summer Fellowship gives highly motivated entrepreneurs, with at least one engineering or CS student on their team, the resources, guidance, and connections they need to grow their ventures.

Prospect Innovation

Our company is now known as Prospect Innovation. We have undergone a transition wherein Vimson Group has taken full control of ownership in efforts to expand our ongoing commitment in the energy transition. Our revitalized focus and commitment lie in accelerating innovation within the mining and metals industry, with a sustainable approach at its core. We firmly believe in fostering collective actions as they possess the potential to exponentially drive positive change for our planet. Furthermore, we remain enthusiastic about the possibility of further collaborations with MIT. If there are opportunities or avenues where our renewed vision aligns with your initiatives, we would be happy to explore them together.

Mass Challenge

Headquartered in the United States with locations in Boston, Israel, Mexico, Rhode Island, Switzerland, and Texas, MassChallenge strengthens the global innovation ecosystem by accelerating high-potential startups across all industries, from anywhere in the world for zero-equity taken.

UFirst Summer Accelerator

UFirst is an accelerator for first time founders from the Boston ecosystem to help them take their businesses to the next level. We started UFirst because at Underscore we recognize that it takes a community to build great companies. This is particularly true for first time founders. We’re also working to create an ecosystem with access to talent, capital, and expertise that helps make Boston the best place to start a company.

Summer Accelerator at Hubspot

A 12-week summer accelerator for student-founded startups selling to SMBs.

Y Combinator

Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Twice a year we invest a small amount of money ($125k) in a large number of startups. We work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience. But YC doesn’t end on Demo Day. We and the YC alumni network continue to help founders for the life of their company, and beyond.

Techstars

Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed.

$100K Entrepreneurship Competition

One competition - three independent contests - from October through May. Now in its 30th year, the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition has brought together students and researchers from across MIT and Greater Boston to launch their talent, ideas, and technology into leading companies.

Creative Arts Competition

The $15K Creative Arts Competition is an annual contest established in 2013 to foster arts-focused startups at the Institute. The $15,000 prize is awarded as a grant to help launch the winning enterprise and enable the recipient(s) to join the ranks of MIT’s most successful startup founders.

Collaborative Intelligence Competition

The Interactive Robotics Lab, in collaboration with the Martin Trust Center, is launching the MIT Collaborative Intelligence Entrepreneurship Competition to advance innovative ideas that leverage AI and computational capabilities with the explicit aim to empower humankind.

Solve at MIT

Solve at MIT is our annual flagship event held on the MIT campus in May in Cambridge, MA, bringing together more than 500 cross-sector leaders as well as MIT faculty and students. The event features Solver teams on stage, in online and written materials, and through dedicated Challenge workshops.

Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize recognizes undergraduate teams and graduate students who have invented solutions in prize categories that represent significant sectors of the global economy. The recognition that college students receive from winning the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize provides new opportunities and support for students’ work as inventors.

The Climate & Energy Prize at MIT (CEP@MIT)

The MIT Climate & Energy Prize (MIT CEP) is the longest running and largest climatetech & energy startup competition for university students all over the world. Over the past 16 years, 100+ CEP alumni have successfully launched companies and collectively raised over $1.7 billion in follow-on funding. MIT CEP teams compete for more than $100,000 in Grand Prize** and other monetary prizes. 2024 COMPETITION TIMELINE Nov 6th, 2023 – Applications open Dec 7th, 2023 – Applications early bird deadline Jan 7th, 2024 – Applications final deadline Feb 5th - 6th, 2024 – First round (virtual) Early Feb 2024* – Mentorship matching Mar 8th, 2024 – US Semi-finals in Cambridge, MA Mar 15th, 2024 – Europe Semi-finals Apr 19th, 2024 – Finals held in Cambridge, MA *exact dates are TBD **Annual prize amounts will be determined at the discretion of the CEP Managing Directors and will be subject to the year's fundraising efforts.

MIT FinTech Conference Startups Pitch Competition

The 2021 MIT FinTech Conference Startups Pitch Competition will be held on the stage of the largest student-run FinTech Conference in the world. After more than 170 startup applications were initiated, representing 36 different countries across the globe, we have narrowed the list down to 8 startups. We are extremely excited to see how those innovative companies fare on the big stage!

MIT Healthcare Innovations Prize

The Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize (SHIP) is a pitch competition open to entrepreneurs innovating in the healthcare space . The mission of SHIP is to support early stage healthcare startups by providing feedback from, and opportunity to network with, experienced industry professionals. Past winners include Calla Health Foundation (2020), Kano Therapeutics (2021), SanaHealth (2022), and Zeph (2023). Board the SHIP to start your innovation journey in healthcare and for a chance to win prizes up to $30,000!

Martin Trust Center Startup Coworking Space

The coworking space and conference rooms at the Martin Trust Center are available for use by MIT students and MIT student clubs working on entrepreneurship-related activities.

Protoworks

ProtoWorks builds and supports community across MIT by bridging entrepreneurship and innovation and accelerates learning via experimentation. Currently registered MIT students may access the space following a general orientation, after which they may take advanced trainings to gain access to our 3D printing, laser cutting, and bench tools.

MIT J-WAFS Solutions Grants

The J-WAFS Solutions program is part of a research collaboration with Community Jameel — the social enterprise organization led by Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel '78—and is administered by J-WAFS in partnership with the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. Since 2015, this grant program has provided funding and facilitated mentor relationships with industry leaders in order to help MIT faculty and students commercialize breakthrough water and food sector technologies and inventions by transforming promising ideas at MIT into innovative products and cutting-edge spinout companies.

D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship Program

Working with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges.

Deshpande Center Ignition and Innovation Grants

The Deshpande Center empowers some of MIT most talented researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of breakthrough products and new companies. In turn, those innovations can help solve large and daunting problems in health, information technology, energy and other fields.

Legatum Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Leadership at MIT

The Legatum Fellowship is a competitive program designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs gain a world class education at MIT, as well as extensive mentor and community support, in order maximize their likelihood of success as principled, impactful leaders in emerging markets.

Legatum Seed Grant

The Center runs a competitive fellowship program for MIT students with a commitment to building and scaling their ventures through principled entrepreneurial leadership. We provide seed grants and travel support for students looking to explore and experience global innovation-driven entrepreneurship (IDE) opportunities.

MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund

MIT Sandbox provides up to $25K in seed funding, mentorship, and tailored entrepreneurship education that empowers student innovators to explore ideas, take risks, and prepare to launch. The goal of the program is to enable any MIT student — inspired to solve a problem with an innovative solution — to learn and experience entrepreneurship. Contact: sandbox@mit.edu

New England I-Corps @ MIT

MIT has received an award from the NSF to provide I-Corps training to participants across New England. This program provides researchers with the tools and a seed micro-grant of up to $1,500 to explore potential applications for a technology and understand who would be a customer and why. Researchers, engineers and others working on STEM-related technology can enroll and engage in a customer discovery process for their innovation. Completing the MIT I-Corps program may qualify for participation in an immersive national NSF advanced customer discovery program and receive a $50K grant to support that exploration.

MassDevelopment's Emerging Technology Fund (ETF)

MassDevelopment's Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) is designed to help growing companies fund the capital they need via loans of up to $2.500,000 for acquisition, expansion, working capital, or equipment purchases. .

MassDevelopment's SBIR Bridge Loans through the ETF

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Bridge Loans through the ETF are for Massachusetts-based recipients of federal SBIR grants, which are federal grants that fund research and development projects at small businesses to help them explore their technological potential. SBIR grant awardees typically wait three to nine months for their grant funds; the SBIR Bridge Loans bridge the time between the SBIR award and the time the grant is funded, increasing the value of the SBIR grants by putting the money to work faster.

ProjX

ProjX is a branch of TechX that provides up to $500 in funding for students every semester, helping students bring their dream projects to life and giving them the chance to demo their creations at the annual xFair and ProjXpo.

Hacking Arts

Founded in 2012, the MIT Hacking Arts Festival is an annual conference that ignites cross-disciplinary innovation at MIT. Artists, engineers and entrepreneurs come together for a two-day festival to take on challenges at the intersection of the arts and technology. Participants form an interdisciplinary team of creative students and young professionals and have 24 hours to design, build and present their idea to a panel of judges.

HackMIT

Annual hackathon held in September of each academic year

MakeMIT

MakeMIT is a hardware hackathon that allows undergraduates to showcase their innovative spirit through large-scale projects, ranging from a driver-exhaustion moniter, to a toaster that prints your morning news. Our fast-paced structure produces an atmosphere of creativity and collaboration as makers work in teams of up to five to create their product. MakeMIT provides cutting edge technology, tools, materials, and mentorship, empowering students to turn their crazy ideas into reality.

MIT Hacking Medicine

MIT Hacking Medicine is a group founded at MIT in 2011, comprising of MIT students and community members, aimed at energizing the healthcare community and accelerating medical innovation. We accomplish this by carrying out health hackathons, design thinking workshops, and networking gatherings to teach healthcare entrepreneurship. The group has organized to date more than 175 events across 29 countries and 5 continents. Over 50 companies have been created, raising over $240M in venture funding.

VR / AR Hackathon

The Reality Virtually Hackathon is a purpose-built hackathon community of 400 participants selected from approximately 1,600 applicants to create original cross reality (XR) work. The hackathon is a learning experience that deepens the extended community’s understanding of how immersive technology can be applied to solve real-world problems. It takes place in the iconic MIT Media Lab, overlooking the breathtaking Boston skyline in the heart of Cambridge’s tech scene-- a setting that inspires the most creative work

Contrary Capital

During the school year, Contrary invests through 100+ Venture Partners on-the-ground at dozens of universities. During the summer, they run the most selective accelerator for university entrepreneurs in San Francisco, working in an intensive environment, under one roof, with one, obsessive focus: building.

Infinite Corridor Fund

GGC’s Infinite Corridor Fund targets great investment opportunities affiliated with MIT and its Alumni

Pear MIT

We typically provide $100K to $3M to lead preseed and seed rounds of US and Latam companies across all sectors. We also host an exclusive Accelerator program for 15 teams.

MIT Alumni Angels

MIT Alumni Angels was founded in 2014 to bring together startups and investors from the MIT community. MIT Alumni Angels is affiliated with the MIT Alumni Association.

Dorm Room Fund

Building a company as a student is really, really hard. We make it easier by giving you a powerful investor network, world-class mentors, and a $20,000 check.

E14 Fund

E14 Fund is the early stage venture capital firm from and for the MIT / Media Lab startup community. Our mission is to serve the whole community; our business model is investing in a subset of the community. We invest in scalable, deep tech startups and donate a portion of profits to MIT.

Rough Draft Ventures

Powered by General Catalyst, we are a student team building and empowering the largest network of student founders.

D-Lab

MIT D-Lab works with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges.

Deshpande Center

The Deshpande Center empowers some of MIT most talented researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of breakthrough products and new companies. In turn, those innovations can help solve large and daunting problems in health, information technology, energy and other fields.

Edgerton Center

Build prototypes, learn new skills, explore madcap ideas, and get advice and encouragement—the Edgerton Center is the place where mind and hand come together.

Legatum Center

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT is a community for MIT students, faculty and departments who are passionate about improving lives through principled entrepreneurial leadership in the developing world. We are committed to providing education, funding and community resources that will equip our students with the skills, values and critical thinking they need to succeed as entrepreneurial change agents in the world.

Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

The MIT Entrepreneurship Center is one of the largest research and teaching centers at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the business and management school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MIT Bootcamps

The Bootcamp group within MIT Open Learning offers a range of learning experiences to global entrepreneurs, including on-line courses and seminars, intensive week-long bootcamps, multi-day treks and more. While most participants of in-person bootcamps are not students, the on-line resources they provide is available to all MIT students.

MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node

Since 2015, the Hong Kong Innovation Node has focused on cultivating the innovation capabilities of MIT students, increasing opportunities for students and faculty to participate in the innovation process, and accelerating the path from idea to impact to help strengthen the region’s innovation ecosystem.

MIT Innovation Initiative

MIT Innovation Initiative is team of unceasingly inquisitive, data-obsessed problem solvers—a mix of academics, business professionals, military, alumni, and community-builders—charged by MIT’s President to develop and strengthen the Innovation & Entrepreneurial Community on campus…and beyond. We build the innovation infrastructure that stewards the entire process of innovation—from idea through impact—by connecting, enabling, and inspiring MIT’s most innovative people, programs, places, and partnerships. We combine opportunities for hands-on innovation and entrepreneurship education, building a dynamic innovation infrastructure across campus, and fostering a connected community of innovation science researchers focused on global relevance and impact. We are committed to our mission of being the catalyst of MIT’s innovation community and to provide innovation infrastructure that stewards the innovation process from idea to impact by: · Serving as a connector across the wide range of student groups, programs, and campus centers dedicated to innovation and entrepreneurship. · Supporting MIT’s most successful innovation and entrepreneurship programs to reach more students and external partners. · Identify growth opportunities in the landscape through the creation of new educational programs, research efforts, and physical infrastructure that will position MIT to thrive for years to come. MIT Innovation Initiative administers the interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor. The minor is designed to prepare MIT undergraduates to serve as leaders in the innovation economy with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to develop, scale, and deliver breakthrough solutions to real-world problems. We also lead several efforts to strengthen MIT’s ability to provide students with hands-on opportunities to learn about making, prototyping and manufacturing. These activities are delivered through Project Manus, the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node, and new campus innovation hubs for co-working and collaboration. Through the MIT Lab for Innovation Science and Policy, the Innovation Initiative is systematically investigating the factors that shape innovation outcomes—including policies, incentives, institutions and infrastructure — at every level from individual and organizational to regional, national and global.

MIT Libraries

Nicholas Albaugh, the MIT Libraries, Innovation & Entrepreneurship librarian, is here to assist you with all of your research and business information needs. Need assistance looking into the existing patent space of a new technology? Trying to find consumer demographic information related to your startup? Want to explore market research reports on a particular industry? He can help you with these questions and many more.

MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research lab that encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas.

MIT Office of Sustainability

The MIT Office of Sustainability (MITOS) was established in 2013 under the Executive Vice President and Treasurer's Office to integrate sustainability across all levels of our campus by engaging the collective brainpower of our students, staff, faculty, alumni, and partners. We have set out to ensure that sustainability is a critical part of MIT standard operating procedures and is fully integrated into the working, research, teaching, social and cultural spheres of our campus.

MIT Open Learning

The mission of Open Learning is to transform teaching and learning at MIT and around the globe through the innovative use of digital technologies.

MIT Sports Lab

The MIT Sports Lab is a sports engineering program that seeks to improve athletic performance and advance the state of the art in research, equipment, and actionable insights.

MIT PKG Center

The PKG Center is the epicenter of public service at MIT. Public service is a springboard to take your learning beyond the classroom and into communities around the world through internships, fellowships, and public service projects.

Project Manus

We are leading MIT’s efforts to: Upgrade legacy spaces/equipment Introduce new technologies Create new campus makerspaces Foster student maker communities Collaborate with peer universities, alumni, government & industry

MIT Tata Center

We are bringing rich technical talent and experience to bear on the persistent and emerging challenges of the developing world. We seek to push the boundaries of what is possible and find new ways of using sophisticated science and technology to bring the benefits of modernity to resource-constrained communities. Our strategy is to have a large and sustained impact by translating our ideas and discoveries into affordable products and services, scientifically-informed policy tools, and entrepreneurial ventures. We work closely with on-the-ground collaborators and with community members to design appropriate, practical solutions.

Technology Licensing Office (TLO)

The TLO moves innovations and discoveries from the lab to the marketplace for the benefit of the public and to amplify MIT's global impact. The TLO cultivates an inclusive environment of scientific and entrepreneurial excellence, and bridge connections from MIT's research community to industry and startups, by strategically evaluating, protecting, and licensing technology.

BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic

The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects. The clinic is staffed by BU Law students under law faculty supervision in three different practice groups: Intellectual Property & Media; Privacy, Security & Health; and Venture & Finance. Over the course of the year, SILC provides counseling and representation to clients on a wide variety of legal issues, including intellectual property, information privacy, corporate law, cybersecurity, finance and business regulation, and media law. SILC is the newest chapter in BU Law’s partnership with MIT, which began in 2015 with the creation of the BU/MIT Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw Program, home to the Technology Law Clinic and the Startup Law Clinic. The two clinics merged in 2023 to become a unified, full-service legal program. For more about us, read our FAQ on our website.

Eship Internship

The Entrepreneurship Internship is a 10-week paid summer internship program connecting MIT undergraduate students with startups founded by MIT delta v alumni.

MIT Fuse

MIT fuse is a 3-week hands-on startup experience designed for students and small teams looking to work, think, and talk like an entrepreneur and start the path towards becoming a company. Check out the overview video here: https://vimeo.com/1019549682?share=copy#t=0

MTC Sector Practice Leaders

Sector Practice Leaders (SPL) help to address the unique challenges different industries present to entrepreneurs. Our SPL program focuses on five different industries. Student leaders for each sector were selected through a competitive process to develop plans and implement comprehensive, integrated, and cutting-edge programs such as advanced classes, active student clubs, annual conferences, business plan contests, hackathons, regular social events, guest speakers, and more.

StartMIT

StartMIT is a 2.5 week program over January Independent Activities Period (IAP) that aims to give any student who is curious about entrepreneurship, an introduction to the skillset and spirit it requires, and exposure to the amazing resources available at MIT to continue the journey after the class. Check out the overview video here: https://vimeo.com/1019547860?share=copy#t=0 ! If you are someone who has been looking to get started on an idea that’s been ruminating, explore the commercialization of a technology that you’ve been working on in the lab, or simply better understand what forming a new venture looks and feels like, StartMIT is right for you. The course is open to any student on campus (including post-docs) who is looking to gain more exposure to entrepreneurship in a peer environment. The main activities of StartMIT are: -Networking with your peers -Listening to our guest entrepreneur speakers -Doing independent exercises to apply what you’ve learned -Working with small groups on your entrepreneurial ideas -1:1 support with MIT Entrepreneurs in Residence

t=0

Each September, the vibrant energy of school’s start is channeled into a week-long celebration known as t=0. MIT students understand the equation t=0 means “the time is now,” as a new cycle of entrepreneurial activities kicks off. We partner with departments and student groups across campus to host events and showcase the array of opportunities available to all, from first-years to grad students and postdocs. The 2020 t=0 Celebration of Entrepreneurship was entirely virtual, adapted for an online experience featuring showcases, networking, and MIT delta v Demo Day.

MIT delta v

MIT delta v is an educational accelerator for MIT student entrepreneurs to help them accelerate their growth in building viable, sustainable ventures. Questions? Reach out to deltavstaff@mit.edu

MIT Entrepreneurship and FinTech Integrator (MEFTI)

MEFTI is a 10-day FinTech startup bootcamp hosted at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node in Hong Kong, China. Students from MIT and universities in Hong Kong will form teams, tackle real-life problems with impact, and build a FinTech startup with a viable business model.

MIT Entrepreneurship and Maker Skills Integrator (MEMSI)

MEMSI is a two-week-long hardware startup bootcamp hosted at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node in Hong Kong, China. Students from MIT and Hong Kong will get together and form teams. You will build a hardware startup in just two weeks. You will see how mass production is done in China. You will build prototypes with your own hands. You will build a business model that makes sense. And you will pitch your startups to more than 100 people on Showcase Day.

MIT Global Startup Workshop (GSW)

MIT Global Startup Workshop (MIT GSW) is an annual multi-day conference that brings together entrepreneurs, students, investors, and key stakeholders from across the world to accelerate the entrepreneurial ecosystem of a host region. Through a series of tailored workshops, panels and keynote speakers, MIT GSW aims to share the entrepreneurial practices that have empowered thousands of companies to launch from MIT. MIT GSW is organized by a diverse group of graduate students and is strongly supported by the MIT entrepreneurial ecosystem including the MIT Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship, the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, and the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program (MIT REAP). Since 1998, our non-profit, student-run organization has held 22 international workshops across 6 continents, and has attracted participants from over 70 nations. We are proud to continue this annual tradition into 2020.

MITx MOOCs

MITx courses embody the inventiveness, openness, rigor and quality that are hallmarks of MIT, and many use materials developed for MIT residential courses in the Institute's five schools and 33 academic disciplines. Browse MITx courses below.

MIT Startup Exchange

MIT Startup Exchange actively promotes collaboration and partnerships between MIT-connected startups and industry, principally members of MIT's Industrial Liaison Program (ILP)

MIT designX

MITdesignX is an academic program in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) dedicated to design innovation and entrepreneurship. We empower students, faculty and researchers to build new business ventures and forward-thinking solutions designed to address critical challenges facing the future of cities and the human environment.

ETA@MIT

ETA@MIT is the hub for search fund activity, research, and resources across MIT. We bring together undergraduate and graduate MIT students with searchers, entrepreneurs, and investors to forge meaningful connections that are positioned for success. Our signature event, the ETA Summit, is held each spring at MIT Sloan and is open to the public.

Enterprise Forum

The MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) is a global organization of dedicated professionals with local chapters, affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through MIT Technology Review. We are open to all participants of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program

Launched through a $20 million gift by the Gordon Foundation—the largest gift made to MIT’s School of Engineering for curriculum development-the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program (GEL) was established to educate and develop the character of outstanding MIT students as potential future leaders in the world of engineering practice and development and to endeavor to transform engineering leadership in the nation, thereby significantly increasing product development capability. Beyond the Institute, the program offers professional development courses to early and mid-career professionals currently working in industry.

MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI)

MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) is MIT’s pioneering international education program. Rooted in the Mens et Manus tradition, MISTI matches MIT students with tailored internship, research and teaching opportunities abroad. We also facilitate international faculty collaborations and develop partnerships with leading companies, research institutes and universities around the world.

Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program

The Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program is a cross-cutting theme within the Media Arts and Sciences academic program that helps students translate promising ideas at the Media Lab from compelling prototypes towards real-world products or services—i.e., translating ideas into impact. Such translation has historically occurred when sponsors absorb promising concepts and hire graduating students and also when new businesses or even NGO organizations are formed, sometimes with Media Lab sponsors as co-investors, co-developers, or lead customers.

Entrepreneurship MOOCs

You got the book and workbook and now you're ready to set on this exciting journey, armed with a full set of tools. But maybe you need more "friends", so here are other valuable & helpful resources.

MIT Bootcamps Videos from Entrepreneurship MOOCs

If you want to view all video clips featured in the MIT Bootcamps Entrepreneurship 101, 102 and 103 MOOCs, you may find these here.

MIT Bootcamps E-Seminars

MIT Bootcamps has a wealth of introductory resources in the form of e-seminars - short educational videos that explore specific topics.

Stanford eCorner

Ideas and research on entrepreneurship from Stanford University

Y-Combinator Startup School

Learn how to start a company, with help from the world's top startup accelerator - Y Combinator. Startup School is a free online program and global community of founders.

SBIR/STTR Grants

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are highly competitive programs that encourage domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) with the potential for commercialization. Through a competitive awards-based program, SBIR and STTR enable small businesses to explore their technological potential and provide the incentive to profit from its commercialization. By including qualified small businesses in the nation's R&D arena, high-tech innovation is stimulated, and the United States gains entrepreneurial spirit as it meets its specific research and development needs.

Envision Student Accelerator

Envision is a virtual accelerator for young women, non-binary individuals, and/or people of color. Our goal is to diversify the entrepreneurship and venture world by providing equity-free funding, hands-on workshops, resources, mentorship, and individualized support for those who are working on a company.

Summer Startup Matching

Find programs enabling you to pursue academic interests, develop professional skills and networks, advance entrepreneurial projects, and earn income.

Inclusive Innovation Grant Program

A grant program supporting undergraduate students who identify as underrepresented minorities at MIT

DIY MTC

DIY MTC is a self-guided learning platform for aspiring entrepreneurs at MIT and beyond. Entrepreneurs can use resources and tools on this platform to learn entrepreneurial frameworks, skills and tools at their own pace.

MIT Energy Hack

The MIT EnergyHack brings opportunities for learning, problem solving, and networking to the forefront as teams develop rapid, innovative solutions to the problems in energy that our society faces today. With challenges written for a myriad of fields within the energy industry, and with our participants specializing across so many different disciplines, there is great opportunity for students and sponsors alike to apply their skills and learn something new. In brief, participants will be presented with challenges from companies in the energy industry and break out into teams. Those teams will then have until two days to hack the challenge they’ve been assigned and present their solution to company representatives, fellow hackers, and judges. The presentations will be in the form of a short PowerPoint presentation. The judges will rank solutions and presentations and winning teams will receive prizes in various categories.

MIT Energy Conference

Dive into the critical decisions the US energy industry is making to drive a cleaner energy future. We bring you the 2021 MIT Energy Conference via the innovative Hopin platform, where you will interact with energy leaders making high-stakes decisions that will drastically improve the energy landscape over the next 30 years. The 2021 MIT Energy Conference will charge you with the inspiration to reshape the world as we know it. Charging Ahead to a Cleaner Future will be the most impactful MIT Energy Conference to date, and we can’t wait for you to join us.

MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship Club

The E-Club was founded in 1988 to serve MIT, Harvard, and Wellesley students, faculty, staff, alumni and select professionals. Members represent a range of experiences and backgrounds including business, engineering, arts, and sciences. Many MIT and Harvard startups have recruited club members as $100K team members, co-founding partners, and equity-sharing employees. The club focuses on helping to develop all aspects of science, engineering, and technology business creation.

Visible Hands

We support underrepresented talent in building venture-backed tech companies from scratch. Through a virtual-first fellowship program, Visible Hands provides company-building services and investments of up to $200k to underrepresented talent across the U.S.

Adventure Finance: How to Create a Funding Journey that Blends Profit and Purpose

The venture capital model doesn’t work―at least not for 99% of startups and small businesses. In this 99% are a lot of companies with incredible potential: businesses headed by female founders and those from diverse racial backgrounds, organizations headquartered outside of venture capital hubs, and purpose-driven enterprises that are creating social and environmental impact alongside financial success. Counter to what the press-savvy venture capital world would have you believe, there are a lot of funding options out there for startups and small businesses. Adventure Finance is designed to help you understand some of these options, and walk you through real examples of how other founders and funders have put them to use. In simple, approachable language, the book breaks down the different types of funding options available from revenue-based financing to recoverable grants to redeemable equity to distributed ownership and more. Through a mix of storytelling and research-based frameworks, based on a decade of research and experience in investing in early-stage companies, this book will give you the ability to determine how each of these structures can contribute to your own funding journey. The goal for this book is to shift the conversation about startup funding and help founders and funders widen the spectrum of “mainstream” investment options in order to make the venture financing world more inclusive and purpose-driven.

MIT DHive

MIT DHIVE is an educational internship program that provides an opportunity for MIT students to dive into healthcare entrepreneurship. MIT DHIVE Summer 2022 invites undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in healthcare entrepreneurship to apply for an 8-week (6/6-7/29) sponsored internship program: - Learn more about the needs and challenges of urgent health issues from the experts in the field - Engage in ideation and team formation activities - Transform ideas into viable solutions DHIVE summer 2022 healthcare tracks: 1. Down Syndrome and Similar Disabilities enhance the lives of people with Down Syndrome and different intellectual abilities or challenges; offered in partnership with the MIT Deshpande Center 2. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) - empower patients and transform the approach to the maintenance of chronic diseases; offered in partnership with the MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics 3. Long Covid and Lyme Disease – develop novel methods and technologies to address the range of issues caused by chronic infectious diseases 4. Catalyst Health-Tech Innovation – collaborate with Catalyst innovation teams to advance entrepreneurial health-tech projects, and engage with a diverse, international network of health care and technology leaders; a partnership with the MIT linQ Catalyst program. Program highlights: - 8-week program June 6 - July 29 - Educational talks focused on the challenges and unmet needs related to the DHIVE track - Entrepreneurship-focused workshops and mentorship Opportunity to continue in MIT Sandbox in the Fall. Participation options: Paid Internship: - Degree-seeking MIT graduate and undergraduate students from any department who can commit at least 20 hours/week. - MIT graduate students on RAship who can devote 10 hours per week. Unpaid Internship: - Anyone interested in biomedical innovation who is able to devote at least 10 hours per week. - We welcome post-docs, non-MIT students, and non-students

DE Toolbox

Keep your startups on track! The Disciplined Entrepreneurship Toolbox is a set of tools and checklists that will help you build a healthy and successful startup.

MIT DEAL FPOP

Discover Entrepreneurship & Leadership First Year Pre-Orientation Program @ MIT

Prod

We help outlier students build outlier companies. We’re a student-run nonprofit dedicated to building the next generation of outlier talent. Our year-long program works with the smartest, most committed student builders to create exceptional companies. we take no equity, no strings attached.

START.nano

Hard-tech companies face significant hurdles to success, especially in their early stages. For example, these startups typically spend their first few years and first few million dollars just to create the facilities they need to develop their technology. The premise of START.nano is that early access to MIT.nano’s state-of-the-art laboratories can minimize the cost of launching a nascent idea, helping increase the survival rate of promising companies and potentially shortening the time it takes for their innovations to reach the market. For 2021, the primary benefit for the START.nano participants will be discounted access to MIT.nano’s cleanrooms, characterization tools, and other laboratories. MIT.nano’s staff will use this pilot year to explore with the companies what programmatic support START.nano can incorporate to boost the success of hard-tech ventures.

Pozen Fellow Summer Internship

The Pozen Fellowship is a summer entrepreneurship internship program for MIT undergraduate students interested in working for an MIT-founded startup.

Pitch2Match

Join us for Pitch2Match and find your co-founder or next team member! Hear students from MIT and many other colleges and universities from Greater Boston pitch their skills, ambition and hustle—all in 60 seconds each. Meet talented individuals to team up with and make an impact. This is an incredible opportunity to share your skills and build your network.

MIT CSAIL Startup Connect

What are the Benefits of the CSAIL Start-up Connect Program? CSAIL Startup Connect is a program for CSAIL startups through CSAIL Alliances. It is for early stage startups < 5-years-old and < $5 million in revenues. Through this program, CSAIL startups will be able to utilize select benefits of the CSAIL Alliances Program at NO COST. Invitations to lectures and member-only workshops Ability to send up to 5 representatives to the CSAIL Alliances Program Annual Meeting, which showcases the latest research from the lab, as well as student projects and start ups Connect with other CSAIL Alliances members Host recruiting events in the lab and participate in lab 'talent showcases' Attend Startup Connect events during the year to network with CSAIL researchers, students and member companies of Alliances and research initiatives How do I join? Contact CSAIL Alliances Assistant Director, Steve Lewis, at: splewis@mit.edu and be sure to include your company's contact information, a brief description, your connection to CSAIL (i.e. current student, professor, alum) and confirm your start-ups eligibility (<5 years, <$5M).

TEX-E - Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy

TEX-E stands for Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy. It’s a first-of-a-kind collaboration between Greentown Labs, MIT’s Martin Trust Center, and five Texas universities: Texas A&M, UT-Austin, University of Houston, Rice University, and Prairie View A&M University. https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/tex-e/ The objective is to create a powerful, student-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Houston region and Texas broadly, focused on energy innovation and implementing lessons learned from building a successful ecosystem in Boston. This effort will aim to train and empower the next generation of entrepreneurs to lead the energy transition and to share in the massive economic opportunity it entails, while also addressing the existential threat of climate change. Student Fellows These individuals will serve as the student liaisons between their respective universities, as well as with MIT and Greentown Labs. They will help to identify and connect with the relevant groups at their university, while also participating in and learning from programs and activities at other universities. Qualified candidates will have a passion for energy innovation and an in-depth knowledge of the energy innovation landscape within their university, as well as broader trends in energy transition and climate tech. Preferred candidates will have existing leadership roles (such as within a student club) at their individual universities. Eligibility Fellows must be: a graduate or undergraduate student currently enrolled at Texas A&M, UT-Austin, University of Houston, Rice University, Prairie View A&M, or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who are graduating no earlier than 2025. Benefits The fellowship includes the following: A unique and unparalleled opportunity to connect with the energy innovation ecosystems in both Houston and Boston. Access to a pool of discretionary funding for events and travel, to be administered by Greentown Labs, the Martin Trust Center, and their home university. For applicants who apply early, consideration to receive fully-funded travel to Boston for the MIT Energy Conference. First consideration for paid part-time and full-time summer 2024 internships at Greentown Labs in Houston and at MIT’s Martin Trust Center in Cambridge, MA. Special invitations to events and networking opportunities in fall 2024 and spring 2025. Requirements All fellows will be expected to attend a kick-off meeting to be held at Greentown Labs Houston. Fellows will participate in a coordination call every other week with staff from Greentown Labs and the Martin Trust Center, as well as other fellows. Fellows will meet with student groups, staff, and faculty across their university and create a map of relevant stakeholders. Fellows will organize at least one event at their university that is focused on entrepreneurship and the energy transition. Fellows will work collaboratively with one another to design and organize these events, and will have the capacity to promote events and opportunities from other universities and ecosystem partners. More Information For more information about the TEX-E Fellows, please email Ben Soltoff at bsoltoff@mit.edu.

UG Entrepreneurship Certificate

MIT Engineering Entrepreneurship Certificate. Explore entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial leadership through IAP programs, courses, internships and more.

Tech2Market

Tech2Market - Spring 2025 Tech2Market is a 6-credit course that provides graduate students with an immersive experience into early-stage entrepreneurship in the life sciences. If accepted, you will drive technology commercialization for life sciences technology coming out of MIT. The course is focused on deep-tech ventures, and will combine a semester-long project alongside instruction in market identification, and commercialization strategies. Class will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:30-4 at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. Applications received on or before December 31st will be given priority selection. Application closes January 26th at 11:59pm. Apply here: https://airtable.com/appjVXXfkD3kBVdFQ/shrm3GmViZbs4frpq Please note that the exact project scope of work will be tailored to the skillset of the student team and needs of the venture before the start of the course. In true entrepreneurship fashion, you should be excited be open to a variety of different projects that may arise as part of the commercialization path. Potential projects could include: -Customer discovery and market segmentation -Primary market research -Investigating customer acquisition and sales strategy (including calculation of customer lifetime value and cost of customer acquisition) -Building out a robust financial model and 5 year projections -Competitor and pricing analysis

IDEAS Global Challenge

IDEAS is MIT annual, campus-wide social innovation competition run by the PKG Center. The program enables students to work closely with community partners to tackle quality of life issues for people around the world. Teams develop projects in a range of sectors, including global health, employment, water, education, energy, housing, disaster response, agriculture, and more.