Stanford Venture Studio

The Stanford Venture Studio is an entrepreneurship hub for graduate students exploring new venture ideas. It connects students to resources, entrepreneurial expertise, and an interdisciplinary community of like-minded peers and alumni.

Office Hours
Weekly opportunities to meet one-on-one with entrepreneurial advisers who have expertise in marketing, finance, design, team building, and more.

The NGP CoLab
The CoLab is equipped with tools for ideation, prototyping, and experimenting.

Demo Day
Venture Studio teams have the opportunity to showcase their ideas to experienced founders, industry leaders, and investors.

Office Hours
Weekly opportunities to meet one-on-one with entrepreneurial advisers who have expertise in marketing, finance, design, team building, and more.

The NGP CoLab
The CoLab is equipped with tools for ideation, prototyping, and experimenting.

Demo Day
Venture Studio teams have the opportunity to showcase their ideas to experienced founders, industry leaders, and investors.

Instructors: N/A
Faculty Principal Investigator (PI) Required?: N/A
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  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Partial Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Updated: April 3, 2023

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Startup Law: Sustainability

Stanford law students, working under the supervision of the Stanford attorney teaching team, provide pro bono legal assistance and support to non-profit and for-profit startups focused on climate, sustainability, and impact.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Student, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Winter
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Emergence Accelerator Program

The Emergence Accelerator Program supports a cohort of highly driven social and environmental student entrepreneurs and ventures each year from across campus. Through key impact entrepreneurship workshops, coaching from successful founders, one-on-one mentorship from industry professionals, and facilitated networking and connections to prospective funders, students are supported to ideate, develop, and launch purpose driven ventures that address our most pressing health challenges.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Partial Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring, Winter
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Big Ideas for Oceans

This new program provides seed grants totaling from $10,000 to $150,000, for up to two years, for interdisciplinary research projects that seek to promote new understanding of ocean processes and marine life, and to inform solutions for ocean health and sustainability...
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Faculty
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter