Are you a student or recent graduate building a business around a new technology or invention? Take a look at the National College Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) at nciia.org. Pay special attention to NCIIA’s 2009 Venture Well program, because it’s about finding mentors and money.
It’s also about doing some good. Specifically:
“…designed to provide venture development and seed investment to emerging university entrepreneurs creating scalable, market-oriented solutions to social and environmental problems.”
This program kicked off last Friday and is focused on a March 21, 2009, event called the Forum in Washington, D.C. Teams will be invited to connect with investors and advisors.
Here’s more detail:
Venture Well is now taking applications from student teams. All selected teams will be eligible for investment by the NCIIA and will receive training and ongoing support from Venture Well advisors as well as NCIIA’s nationally recognized Invention to Venture (I2V) mentoring program.
Interested teams must apply to the NCIIA by December 19, 2008, at www.venturewell.org.
Venture Well focuses on low-cost and highly scalable solutions for both Western and “Bottom of the Pyramid” consumers in fields of health, wellness and the environment.
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