Purdue-connected opportunities

• Moonshot Pitch Challenge: An ideation-focused pitch challenge that asks students to think big – beyond the classroom – and pitch an idea that solves a real-world problem in 2 minutes or less. 
• New Venture Challenge: A three-workshop series helping to prepare Purdue student startups for market entry and fundraising. 
• Trask Innovation Fund: A fund which supports short-term projects that will enhance commercial value of Purdue University intellectual property assets. Open to all Purdue researchers, faculty and staff. 
• Purdue Innovates OTC Disclosure: Disclosure is the first step towards patenting your innovation. OTC can help guide you through the process towards commercialization. 
• Purdue Innovates OTC Licensing: OTC currently has over 1000 new technologies available for licensing and can help guide you toward commercialization. 
• Purdue Innovates Ventures: This team invests in early-stage, Purdue-connected startups founded or led by alumni or technologies invented at Purdue.
  
• John Martinson Entrepreneurial Center Entrepreneurship: JMEC supports Purdue Engineering students, faculty, staff, and alumni to commercialize engineering innovations. JMEC focuses on the execution and expansion stages of startups. 
• Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship: Purdue University’s innovation, entrepreneurship, commercialization, and partnership programs are co-located in the Burton D. Morgan building in an effort to streamline access to these programs. 

Additional opportunities

• TechPoint: An organization dedicated to the growth of Indiana’s digital innovation economy through expanding talent pipeline, enhancing connectivity and elevating industry. 
• High Alpha: A venture studio to create and fund B2B SaaS companies — partnering with founders to build businesses that reach their full potential. 
• Elevate Ventures: With a focus on Indiana, Elevate invests in high-potential cross-sector innovative companies with a minimum $500M TAM at the pre-seed, seed, and early stages. 
• DIAL Ventures: A venture studio to create and de-risk startups through deep industry partnership, a fellowship program that vets and develops successful entrepreneurs/founders, and provides co-investment opportunities for industry partners. 
• Indiana Economic Development Council / The Legend Fund: The IEDC is charged with growing the state economy, driving economic development, helping businesses launch, grow and locate in the state. 
• I-Corps: An immersive, entrepreneurial training program that facilitates the transformation of invention to impact through the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps. 
• SBIR: Programs to fund a diverse portfolio of startups and small businesses across technology areas and markets to stimulate technological innovation, meet Federal research and development (R&D) needs, and increase commercialization to transition R&D into impact. 
• Small Business Administration: SBA works to ignite change and spark action so small businesses can confidently start, grow, expand, or recover. 

Purdue-connected opportunities 

• Kurz Purdue Technology Center: KPTC is the Purdue Research Park’s flagship incubator and 105,000-square-foot facility. For leasing information, contact Purdue Research Foundation at 765-588-3470. 
• Convergence Center for Innovation and Collaboration: Convergence offers a variety of spaces and amenities for a vibrant mix of companies and startups to work alongside successful entrepreneurs and innovators.  
• Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette: Located just north of Purdue University’s main campus, the park in West Lafayette is home to the largest cluster (100+) of technology-based companies in the state. 
• Discovery Park District at Purdue: Moments from Purdue University in the heart of America, the best and brightest come together to live, work, innovate, collaborate and play. Will you be one of them? 
• Institutes and Centers at Discovery Park District: This consortium of institutes brings together researchers across disciplines to advance large-scale research that enable breakthroughs and drive innovations in support of solving the world’s most critical problems. 
• Seng Liang Wang Hall: Wang Hall is a new building combining academic, research and retail spaces on the Purdue University campus. 
• The Data Mine: The first large-scale learning community for undergraduate and graduate students from all majors, focused on Data Science for All. Hillenbrand Hall is filled with new learning communities of students preparing for the data-driven workforce of the 21st century. 
• Bechtel Innovation Design Center: A student-focused, peer-mentored, as-needed, educational community providing  the ability to complete projects through hands-on access to a safe ecosystem of consultation, training, technologies, and processes. 
• Lab 2 Life: A set of real-world, test-bed environments aimed at advancing innovation in collaboration with corporate partners and Purdue faculty and students. 

Additional opportunities  

• 16Tech Innovation District: A 50-acre community in downtown Indianapolis dedicated to world-changing innovation and economic opportunity. 

Purdue-connected opportunities 

• Purdue Innovates Ventures: This team invests in early-stage, Purdue-connected startups founded or led by alumni or technologies invented at Purdue.
• SVBIG: SVBIG is an organization focused on mentoring student, faculty & recent grad entrepreneurs at Purdue University to advance their start-up idea/company.
• PurdueTHINK Consulting: A student-run consulting organization, PurdueTHINK develops students’ professional skills while increasing access to strategy consulting opportunities.
• The Anvil: A startup-focused organization led by students and entrepreneurs, alongside Purdue University, for students and entrepreneurs seeking to take their ideas further.
• Purdue Women’s Network: Inspiring women to recognize their individual and collective power to motivate, uplift, and connect with students, alumnae, and friends of the university.
• Purdue Alumni Entrepreneurship Network: PAEN connects graduates of Purdue’s Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation program and other alumni entrepreneurs while also advancing the university’s entrepreneurship community.
• Design & Innovation Learning Community: A learning community for Purdue students who enjoy innovative ideas and people, want to design something tangible and meaningful, and are interested in using Purdue’s resources to grow ideas into something real.

Purdue-connected opportunities 

• Firestarter: A six-week cohort-based program through Purdue Innovates Incubator for founders looking to start a company in the next 3-9 months.
• Market Readiness: A series of cohort-based, in-person workshops to help venture-backable startups figure out where they’re going and how in the next 6-12 months.
• New Venture Challenge: A three-workshop series helping to prepare Purdue student startups for market entry and fundraising.
• John Martinson Entrepreneurial Center Entrepreneurship: JMEC supports Purdue Engineering students, faculty, staff, and alumni to commercialize engineering innovations. JMEC focuses on the execution and expansion stages of startups.
• Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship: Purdue University’s innovation, entrepreneurship, commercialization and partnership programs are co-located in the Burton D. Morgan building in an effort to streamline access to these programs.
• Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation: This certificate empowers students in all majors to turn their innovative ideas into action, whether they choose careers in startups, industry, or non-profit organizations.
• Innovation Methods for Purdue Advanced Collaboration Team: An undergraduate organization focused on implementing the learnings of innovation science in our daily life via structured practice.
• Design & Innovation Learning Community: A learning community for Purdue students who enjoy innovative ideas and people, want to design something tangible and meaningful, and are interested in using Purdue’s resources to grow ideas into something real.
• Bindley Research Innovation Accelerator: Organizing the university’s technical, intellectual and other resources for early commercialization efforts. Our focus is on discoveries still housed in academia as well as with fragile early-stage startup companies

Purdue-connected opportunities 

• Purdue Innovates Talent Connect: A resource connecting you to jobs and internships at Purdue-connected startups.

Additional opportunities 

• TechPoint Xtern: TechPoint’s full-time paid internship program that places 200+ students with Indiana tech employers. Get paid to work alongside industry leaders at some of the fastest-growing tech companies.
• The Data Mine: The first large-scale learning community for undergraduate and graduate students from all majors, focused on Data Science for All. Hillenbrand Hall is filled with new learning communities of students preparing for the data-driven workforce of the 21st century.
• Purdue Launch Consulting: Purdue Launch has a mission to create a platform for high-achieving Purdue students to express their interest in consulting and the entrepreneurial space.