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Resource Landscape

Use the filters below to explore the different resources offered to budding ecopreneurs from across Stanford University. For a map of Stanford’s ecopreneurship-related groups and programs, click here.

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TomKat Solutions Program

TomKat Solutions is a program designed to support rapidly deployable energy and environmental solutions. Each Academic Year, we are requesting submissions for solutions that will address the underlying causes and consequences of specific challenges. Selected projects can be funded through three phases...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

TomKat Innovation Transfer Program

The TomKat Center's Innovation Transfer Program assists Stanford University faculty, staff, and students in commercializing breakthrough technologies and innovations in sustainability. Grants are awarded to develop prototypes, to refine business plans, and to conduct customer trials and market research...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Alumni, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

TomKat Center Graduate Fellowships for Translational Research

This competition is open to Stanford doctoral students performing translational research for sustainable energy or other sustainability challenges. These fellowships are meant to support advanced doctoral students (third year and beyond) to pursue...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Sustainability Accelerator Grants

The Sustainability Accelerator drives solutions generated through collaborations and scales them through partners locally and globally to ensure they benefit all people. The grants are awarded in three tiers: planning, mid-range, and large-scale.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Ecopreneurial Summer Innovation Sprint (EcoSprint)

The Ecopreneurial Summer Innovation Sprint (EcoSprint) program offers Stanford graduate students an opportunity to evaluate their own sustainability-focused venture idea full-time for eight (8) weeks over the summer.  The program offers a stipend, weekly coaching, a robust workshop series, and a supportive community. 
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Summer
  • Courses

Startup Garage: Testing and Launch (STRAMGT 366, SUSTAIN 377, BIOE 377)

In this intensive, hands-on, project-based course, teams continue to develop their ventures based on a user need that they validated in advance of the course. They build out more elaborate versions of their prototypes and Business Model Canvas; test hypotheses...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Winter
  • Courses

Startup Garage: Design (STRAMGT 356, SUSTAIN 376, BIOE 276)

Startup Garage is an intensive, hands-on, project-based course where students apply human-centric design, lean startup methodology, and the Business Model Canvas to conceive, design, and field-test new business concepts that address real world needs...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Stanford Impact Founder (EcoSIF) Fellowships and Awards

The Stanford Impact Founder - Ecopreneurship (EcoSIF) program is a flagship postgraduate fellowship program that provides catalytic financial support (a $110k fellowship or a $20k award) along with coaching and supportive programming to Stanford graduate students launching eco ventures in their year after graduation...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Courses

Stanford Climate Ventures (ENERGY 203)

Solving the global climate challenge will require the creation and successful scale-up of hundreds of new ventures. This project-based course provides a launchpad for the development and creation of transformational climate ventures and innovation models...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring, Winter
  • Other

Lawyers for Sustainable Economy

A Law Firm-Led Effort to Provide Pro Bono Legal Services to Sustainability-Focused Entrepreneurs and Non-Profit Organizations
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Alumni, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter