External Organizations
Pitch Competitions for Venture Capital
Here you can find external organizations who host venture capital pitch competitions for underrepresented individuals in biotech.
Pitch Competitions for Women
The Capital Network’s “Fellowship for Female Founder”
The Capital Network is a non-profit (501c3) organization that provides practical, hands-on education and personalized mentoring to help early stage entrepreneurs master the entire funding process and successfully raise seed capital & beyond. They know fundraising is hard, so we provide entrepreneurs with the right network and the right programming.
The Capital Network has been active in Boston's innovation economy for 20 yrs. Additionally they host annual demo days.
Osage University Partners & WashU’s Equalize
Equalize is a virtual mentor program and pitch competition designed to take national action around the disparity of women academic inventors forming university startups.
Golden Seeds
Founded in 2005, Golden Seed’s is an early-stage investment group that offers capital and mentoring to women-led ventures across most sectors
Massachusetts Life Science’s Center’s MassNextGen
MassNextGen is the result of a public-private partnership between Commonwealth of Mass and Sanofi, Takeda, J&J, Mintz, King St. Properties. MassNextGen funds 5 women-led ventures (~$85K/woman, usually 1st time CEOs) each year with a custom package of coaching from serial entrepreneurs and investors.
She Raises Capital’s Signature Program
Investment-readiness education and individualized investment campaigns to match female founders company needs.
Pitch Competitions for Entrepreneurs
NYU’s Stern School of Business - Endless Frontier Labs
The Endless Frontier Labs (EFL) is a nine-month program focused on accelerating the success of early-stage science and technology based startups through a goals-oriented mentorship program.
Nucleate
Student-led organization, where Venture Capital company’s are involved as mentors and funders (Pillar has committed $1.5M in uncapped notes). Nucleate is an 'accelerator' for students who want to start companies. Scientists, MBA, clinical students self-match around student-brought tech. This process is followed by technical/business workshops and networking with Venture Capital companies.
Pitch Competitions for Underrepresented Individuals
Lab Central Ignite’s Golden Tickets
Pitch competition for free space at Lab Central for underrepresented entrepreneurs. The Golden Ticket also provides support and access to LabCentral’s network and resources.
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