KickStart Venture Services – Fund

On the path to startup success, founders typically raise funding from multiple sources to help grow their businesses. Securing funding can happen at any stage or throughout the company lifecycle.

KickStart Venture Services – Launch

When it’s time to launch your venture, you’ll face a variety of critical questions — and making the right decisions can seem like a daunting task. KickStart Venture Services can

Apply: RISE Innovation Challenge

In alignment with the White House Infrastructure Plan and the National Defense Strategy, TechConnect is partnering with the Resilient Infrastructure & Secure Energy (RISE) Consortium in addressing the Nation’s profound

Apply: Venture Catalyst Program

Are you a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student or postdoc with a passion for expanding your business development skills and making a real-world impact by supporting startups? Apply to join the

Jeff Speakman, PhD

Jeff joined KickStart Venture Services in May 2021, where he serves as laboratory manager of the KickStart Accelerator—the first dedicated wet lab space for early-stage life science companies in Chapel

KickStart Venture Services – Assess

In the early stages of founding a startup, you want to know how attractive your venture is to customers and understand new market opportunities. But you may not have the

KickStart Venture Services – Grow

Our network of startup experts supports innovators in a variety of ways – from coaching and mentoring to connecting startup founders with key service providers. Whether it’s offering guidance about

KickStart Venture Services

Our KickStart team has decades of combined experience in research, technology transfer, investment strategy, venture creation and innovation management. They have worked with institutions to foster seed funds, launch accelerator

KickStart Venture Services – Learn

No matter where you are on your startup journey, continual education about innovation and entrepreneurship plays an important role. Recognizing the value of expanding their entrepreneurial know-how, many founders seek

Apply: Big Launch Challenge Pitch Competition

The Launch Place and the Angel Capital Association (ACA)’s Angel University are partnering to bring together angel investors and entrepreneurs to learn, share and network. This two-day event offers a

Apply: Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars Program

The Carolina Center for Public Service has opened the application process for its next cohort of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars, a two-year experiential program that is designed to advance community-engaged

Apply: mHUB Accelerated Incubation Cohort

mHUB Accelerated Incubation is a six-month, hands-on startup accelerator focused on the commercialization of pre-Series A, high-potential hardtech startups. The program will source 10 demand-driven startups from across the world to participate

Apply: NCBiotech Translational Research Grant

The Translational Research Grant program funds projects that explore potential commercial applications or initiate the early commercial development of university-held life sciences inventions. The technology must have the potential to

The Big Pitch

The Big Pitch is a virtual quick pitch competition for the most promising biotech startups in the US. This series challenges all-stars from three regions—West, South and Northeast—to score points

KickStart Presents: Precompliance 101

Due to the regulations and compliance elements involved with medical device development, the process is expensive, slow and difficult. There are also fewer “off the shelf” tools available to help

RTP 180: Ecology (live stream event)

Innovation. Education. Industry. These are powerful angles—and what Research Triangle Park is known for. At RTP180, speakers from our founding Universities, Park companies and the North Carolina community-at-large, are called

Apply: Launch Fall 2021 Program

Launch Chapel Hill is an award-winning start-up accelerator and co-working space located on Franklin Street. Its fall program is designed to increase the growth of high-impact start-ups and early-stage ventures.

Apply: The Big Pitch

The Big Pitch is a virtual quick pitch competition for the most promising biotech startups in the US. This series challenges all-stars from three regions—West, South and Northeast—to score points

Apply: James Dyson Award

This international design award celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. The challenge is simple: design something that solves a problem. It is open to current university

Apply: 2021 Baxter Young Investigator Awards

The BYIA is an annual program that supports and promotes innovative research applicable to the development of critical therapies and clinical diagnostics. Applicants must be currently enrolled graduate students or

Apply: IQVIA Covid-19 Healthcare App Challenge

Enter the global COVID-19 Healthcare App Challenge to create an app that improves care for people in need. Join this hackathon-style competition for developers that wish to leverage the IQVIA HealthCare

VC University LIVE at UNC

VC University at UNC will take place virtually in partnership with NVCA, Venture Forward, Startup@Berkeley and UNC. The program, created in 2019 with the goal of democratizing access to education

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