Pathways
All roads that lead to entrepreneurship come through Venture Lab. To better assist you on your entrepreneurial journey, we've developed five unique pathways to better serve our talented student and alumni communities.
Upcoming Events
Attend a workshop. Register for a Venture Lab event. Apply for funding.
If you’re a Penn student working on a company, you’re invited to join Venture Lab's incubator program, VIP (Venture Initiation Program). Applications for VIP-C (Community) are accepted on a rolling basis. Members receive access to co-working space (currently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic), workshops, group advising, a support system of fellow student entrepreneurs, and help setting measurable goals to develop your venture.
LEARN MORE AND APPLY
LEARN MORE AND APPLY
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October
Paul Sethi, W'01
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, 2048 Ventures
OpenPaul Sethi is Founding Partner at 2048 Ventures, investing in Seed (and Pre-Seed) tech-differentiated companies. For the 7 years prior to 2048 Ventures, Paul was CEO of Redbooks, leading sales data and intelligence platform for the marketing industry (acq. 2018). He also co-founded Robuzz, an advanced ML/NLP practice focused on real-time news intelligence - and spent the early 2000s focused on tech investments in the public markets.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, 2048 Ventures
OpenPaul Sethi is Founding Partner at 2048 Ventures, investing in Seed (and Pre-Seed) tech-differentiated companies. For the 7 years prior to 2048 Ventures, Paul was CEO of Redbooks, leading sales data and intelligence platform for the marketing industry (acq. 2018). He also co-founded Robuzz, an advanced ML/NLP practice focused on real-time news intelligence - and spent the early 2000s focused on tech investments in the public markets.
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October
How should businesses evaluate their environmental footprint? Learn about the influence of environmental criteria on a company’s energy use, waste, pollution, natural resource conservation, and treatment of animals.
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If you’re a Penn student working on a company, you’re invited to join Venture Lab’s incubator program, VIP (Venture Initiation Program). Applications for VIP-C (Community) are accepted on a rolling basis.
Take entrepreneurship classes to learn every part of building a business. Work on your startup in class, develop a product, or prepare yourself for a career in startups, private equity & VC, intrapreneurship, or social entrepreneurship.
The Weiss Tech House supports students with a broad range of interests and skills who want to collaborate, explore and learn about entrepreneurship and innovation. We help students in the development and/or commercialization of innovative technologies.
We want to be more interdisciplinary, integrated, and inclusive. Every school at Penn has a wonderful suite of programming to help students with entrepreneurship, but teams and ventures tend to be more effective when we’re cross-disciplinary. We want to ensure that we’re serving a set of students who represent the wide diversity of our Penn population.
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Find out what's happening with founders across the #entrePENNeur community! Want to tell your story? Contact us at venturelab@upenn.edu.
Tangen Hall houses Venture Lab which is a partnership by the Wharton School, Penn Engineering, and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design to consolidate Penn’s startup ecosystem and to provide experiential learning to all Penn students.
Other organizations located in Tangen Hall include the Integrated Product Design master’s level program, the Jay H. Baker Retail Center, the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program, and the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance.
Other organizations located in Tangen Hall include the Integrated Product Design master’s level program, the Jay H. Baker Retail Center, the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program, and the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance.
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