Advisory Services
We invite a small number of student and faculty innovators to join VentureWell and work with us to bridge the gap between academic research and venture formation. Applications are taken on a rolling basis.
We connect each innovator team with one of our cohorts of advisors, individuals with extensive corporate and market experience in your technology sector.
In exchange for their services, we take a small percentage of Common Stock equity in your company, commensurate with the level that a founding board member or advisor might take--but with VentureWell, you get to draw on 5-8 advisors, providing you a much richer knowledge base.
Our goal is to make the gap between research and venture formation a "time of brilliance" transforming university research into commercial innovations through actionable strategic plans that can make effective use of grants and investor funding.
VentureWell draws primarily from student generated ventures (undergrads and grad students) who have been supported by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance through involvement in programs and grants that the NCIIA offers. But we are also open to working with other university innovators--students, postdocs and faculty--who have exciting innovations in the sectors in which we work.
Our Advisory Services are intended to get your team from the university environment, through the technology transfer process, and incorporated as a fledgling start-up entity. We work with you to help you establish a credible strategic plan and to get you "investment ready", able to present a credible case to investors or other entities that may provide you with funding.
Key to our Advisory Services is a cohort of advisors with extensive corporate background in the industries and markets where you hope your innovation can make a difference.
The first step in the VentureWell process is to apply for our services through the VentureWell application. This application process is invitation only. Please contact us if you are interested.