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Funding for Northeastern Ventures

April 10, 2024

As a Northeastern-affiliated founder, you have access to MANY funding sources on campus. Please read more on them below.

Grant Applications

  • Undergrad Prototype Fund

    • $1,500 grant for Northeastern Undergraduates building a new product. We want to help pay for the inputs you need to take the first step.

  • Alpha Fund

    • $5,000 grant for Alumni, Graduate students, and Faculty to build a prototype.

  • Gap Fund

    • $10,000 grant available to all ventures in the ‘Go’ stage of IDEA. Ventures can receive this fund up to 3x. Applications open every other month.

  • Women Who Empower (WWE) Innovator Award

    • The WWE Award recognizes changemakers in Northeastern’s entrepreneurial ecosystem—and provide them with capital, resources, and network. Open to students, alumni, and faculty. Applications open once per year.

Co-op

  • Venture Co-op

    • Did you know you can GET PAID to work on your own venture full-time? The Sherman Venture Co-op provides Northeastern University founders the opportunity to develop their own venture over the course of a six-month period.

      Open to: any Northeastern undergraduate or graduate student

Pitch Competitions

  • E-Club’s Husky Startup Challenge (Boston, Oakland, London)

    • A semester-long bootcamp designed to research, design, and iterate ideas into a full-fledged product. Finalists compete at Demo Day for up to $10,000. For early-stage ideas and companies. Occurs every semester.

  • Disrupt’s Finnovate (Boston)

    • An 8-week long program where students will be challenged to create a new innovative idea in the FinTech space that aims to disrupt the traditional financial service industry. Occurs every semester.

  • ViTAL’s Husky Health Innovation Challenge (HHIC) (Boston)

    • HHIC is a healthcare-focused case competition. This event is open to ALL undergraduate students in the Boston area. In teams of three to four, participants will propose innovative digital health solutions to a salient issue in healthcare identified as the topic of our case. Winner gets $1,000.

Fundraising Assistance

  • Huntington Angel Network (HAN)

    • HAN is a student-run organization whose mission is to grow the Northeastern venture community by connecting vetted and investment-ready start-ups to a global investor network of angel investors and venture capital firms. HAN helps founders hone their pitch as they raise money.