These top early-stage start-up companies are selected through a competitive month-long application process. Each company receives a minimum $25,000 seed investment from Carnegie Mellon, made possible by the Robert and Kathleen Dobkin Intuitive Foundation.
The VentureBridge program engages, equips, and inspires CMU MBA students and entrepreneurs to accelerate their start-up growth by providing special access to the networks, resources, and innovations of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship and the Carnegie Mellon University community in the Silicon Valley Bay Area. It is the only university accelerator program in the US connecting founders off-campus in a remote location.