Programs for Investors
The Visiting Experts Program is a Venture Lab program that provides students with the opportunity to meet alumni founders, entrepreneurs, subject matter experts, and industry experts in one-on-one or small group AMA (Ask Me Anything) sessions. The program aims to provide insights into the practical, conceptual, and personal challenges of launching, acquiring, or growing a venture.
The Penn Wharton Innovation Fund exists to fund creative and meaningfully innovative ventures from the Penn student community while giving students on the investment team the opportunity to develop skills that will benefit them when pursuing a career in early-stage investing.
The Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) program provides training, funding, and guidance to help interested students buy an established small to medium-sized company and operate, optimize, and grow it. Our workshops and events are open to all Penn Students. The $50K Perlman Fellowship is a competitive opportunity available only to Penn and Wharton Master's Degree and Ph.D students in their final year of study and graduating in 2024.
The Bet on Entrepreneurship Program provides undergraduate Penn students who identify as First-Generation and/or Limited Income (FLGI) with opportunities to engage in the entrepreneurial ecosystem via de-risked experiential learning opportunities.”
Latest Investor Events
09
October
Whether you're interested in pitching your idea, providing feedback, supporting peers, or just seeing what femtech, retail, and gender-focused ventures are spinning out of Penn, you are invited to be a part of the Breaking the Bias Pitch Night. We welcome you to participate in the Breaking the Bias Pitch Night as a pitching founder and/or joiner or as a member of the audience. Following the pitches, we invite everyone to mingle, connect with the founders who pitched, and enjoy light refreshments.
02
October
Femtech is currently expected to grow to $103 billion by 2030. Established retailers are increasingly offering gender-expansive garments as part of their product lines to generate revenue from a growing non-binary market. The menstrual hygeine market is expected to experience a year-on-year growth rate of almost 5%.
So why is it so difficult for founders of companies offering these gender-focused products and services to fundraise?
Join Venture Lab for a virtual panel discussion via Zoom on October 2nd from 5:00pm - 6:30pm ET to learn tactical strategies that will inform your approach to ensuring an accessible pitch and equitable consideration of gender-focused products and services.
So why is it so difficult for founders of companies offering these gender-focused products and services to fundraise?
Join Venture Lab for a virtual panel discussion via Zoom on October 2nd from 5:00pm - 6:30pm ET to learn tactical strategies that will inform your approach to ensuring an accessible pitch and equitable consideration of gender-focused products and services.
15
April
Professor Charbel Zreik will discuss how to thrive under stress and the 5 shifts for entrepreneurial leaders during all steps of the ETA process. This is part 2 of Professor Zreik's series on Wellness.
This session is open to any Penn student interested in learning more about ETA and the different potential paths to pursue for anyone considering acquiring and operating a business.
This event is organized by Venture Lab's Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition program.
This session is open to any Penn student interested in learning more about ETA and the different potential paths to pursue for anyone considering acquiring and operating a business.
This event is organized by Venture Lab's Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition program.
09
April
Professor Charbel Zreik will discuss how to thrive under stress and the 5 shifts for entrepreneurial leaders during all steps of the ETA process. This is part 1 of Professor Zreik's series on Wellness.
This session is open to any Penn student interested in learning more about ETA and the different potential paths to pursue for anyone considering acquiring and operating a business.
This event is organized by Venture Lab's Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition program.
This session is open to any Penn student interested in learning more about ETA and the different potential paths to pursue for anyone considering acquiring and operating a business.
This event is organized by Venture Lab's Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition program.
28
November
This session will explore the variety of alternative entrepreneurship through acquisition and search fund models with Professor Charbel Zreik.