In the Creative Destruction Lab course is a two-semester course in which students will receive mentoring, work with high-potential ventures, and experience how investment decisions are made. Students will have the opportunity to apply skills and knowledge in an actual business setting, conducting team projects with some of the top early stage ventures in the world focused on risk & insurance, and health & wellness.
The Draper Technology Innovation Fund (TIF) administered by Discovery to Product (D2P) supports efforts to enhance the scope or patentability of inventions and assist with their potential licensing to the commercial sector. Applicants must be UW‒Madison faculty members or academic staff, and a formal university invention disclosure must have been accepted by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). Applications for Q2 of fiscal year 2025 due August 15.
Do you have an idea or need for a medical or biological innovation? UW-Madison Biomedical Engineering (BME) student teams are available to work on solving medical problems by designing solutions to meet your personal, medical practice, or research needs through a unique BME Design curriculum.
gBETA Madison is a free, seven-week accelerator for early-stage companies with local roots. Each program is capped at five teams and requires no fees and no equity. Application deadline Aug. 19.
Forward Memberships offers various membership types tailored to suit startups at different developmental stages, from fundraising and grant writing to technology de-risking.
Innovation to Market from Discovery to Product (D2P) can help you turn your idea into impact. Intended as an entry point for campus innovators—from faculty to students, postdocs and staff—this free, non-credit course will be offered this fall from October 9 - December 4. Deadline to apply: September 27.