Licensing & Ventures Group

Additional Sources of Funding

UVA Sources

VentureLab Incubator

An initiative of the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, VentureLab supports the development of new entrepreneurs and growth of promising early-stage ventures.

www.darden.virginia.edu

UVA iCorps Program

A public-private partnership program with the National Science Foundation, designed to teach university graduate and faculty research scientists with STEM-related technologies to identify valuable product/service opportunities that can emerge from academic research and provide entrepreneurship training to participants.

engineering.virginia.edu

Competitions

UVA Entrepreneurship Cup

The UVA Entrepreneurship Cup is a University-wide annual $100,000 three-part competition open to all UVA undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows.

entrepreneurship.virginia.edu

Galant Challenge

The Galant Center’s annual “Shark Tank”-type pitch competition connects compelling seed- and early-stage ventures from the UVA community with potential investors.

galantchallenge.virginia.edu

Catalyst Accelerator Program

Open to UVA and the greater Charlottesville community, Catalyst is a long-format accelerator, providing early-stage startups in central Virginia with nine months of program support, including $20,000 in grant funding and nearly $50,000 in additional resources.

www.434.co

SBIR and STTR Programs

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are highly competitive programs that encourage domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) with the potential for commercialization.

www.sbir.gov

Angel Investors

Charlottesville Angel Network

The Charlottesville Angel Network is a growing group of nearly 70 accredited investors and family offices. We are independent investors who make our own independent investment decisions.

cvilleangelnetwork.net

CAV Angels

Catalyzes UVA alumni’s engagement in burgeoning entrepreneurial ecosystems and mobilizing investment in the most promising early-stage companies through tailored educational programming, hands-on student engagement, and curated access to robust and proprietary deal flow.

cavangels.com

Angel Capital Association

ACA is a collective of accredited angel investors, world's most prolific early-stage investment class. The association is the largest angel professional development organization in the world.

www.angelcapitalassociation.org

Venture Capital

Venture capital firms raise funds from limited partners and invest this capital into startups or growing companies to help them accelerate growth of the company to an exit that will provide a return on the firm’s investment. Venture firms vary in size of funds under management ($50MM to $1B), the focus of investing stage (Seed, Series A, Series B, etc.) and the targeted industry/markets (life sciences, technology, instruments, energy, etc.)

National Venture Capital Association - NVCA

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) empowers the next generation of American companies that will fuel the economy of tomorrow.

nvca.org

Axios

Smart, efficient news worthy of your time, attention, and trust. Covering local news, politics, health, climate, tech, media, business, sports, world, science and more.

www.axios.com

Strictly VC

Six months ahead.

www.strictlyvc.com

Crowdfunding

Indiegogo

Crowdfund innovations in tech and design before they go mainstream and support entrepreneurs that are working to bring their dreams to life.

www.indiegogo.com

Kickstarter

Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to life. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.

www.kickstarter.com

GoFundMe

GoFundMe: The most trusted online fundraising platform for any need or dream. Start a crowdfunding fundraiser in 5 minutes. Get help. Give kindness.

www.gofundme.com

CrowdSupply

Our mission is to bring original, useful, respectful hardware to life.

www.crowdsupply.com

Private Equity

Similar to venture firms, private equity will invest in a business with the goal of increasing value, through growth, of the company/investment for a return on that investment. Unlike venture, the focus of private equity firms is normally more mature companies who have revenue, teams and defined markets and products.