- Chancellor’s Fund Era
- VUTC managing $10M investment fund
- Must invest in VU technologies –limited pool
- No other meaningful tools to aid entrepreneurs and new ventures (such as POC fund, education, mentorship, tech space, etc.
- Insufficient demonstrated ROI
- Transitional Period
- Little to no startup activity
- VUTC shuttered
- No meaningful tools to aid entrepreneurs and new ventures
- Current Period
- Formed dedicated New Venture team
- New focus on startup activities
- Over time, educational programming, customer discovery, financial modeling, startup formation assistance, capital raise assistance, mentoring, external assessment, office space, and pre-seed funding support will be developed Startups Facilitated by Year
- Little to no startup activity