The most comprehensive network for all student entrepreneurship, startups, and investment.
🚀 Mission
Who? NovaLaunch is a nexus built for and around student entrepreneurship and development.
What? By integrating the entrepreneurship bubbles at the nation's top universities, NovaLaunch will become a connected, integrated, and collaborative ecosystem of student entrepreneurs, student-founded startups, entrepreneurship organizations, and investors.
How? NovaLaunch is building a web tool that will facilitate this ecosystem. Scroll down to learn more about the web tool's features!
🌌 NovaLaunch Web Tool
An integrative and collaborative networking tool for students, student-founded startups, university entrepreneurship organizations, and investors to connect with one another based on shared interests, needs, qualities, and curiosities.
💼 Use-Cases
🧠 Student entrepreneurs have a space to enter, explore, and expand their entrepreneurial relationships and involvement, whether as student-founders, operators, leaders of their entrepreneurial communities, or just someone interested in learning more about entrepreneurship.
🦄 Student-founded startups can directly contact investors based on shared interests, receive publicity for their venture, and proactively promote their open job positions.
✨ University entrepreneurship organizations (e-orgs) may connect with other organizations to create partnerships, promote their content to other students and founders, and increase their investor connections.
💸 Investors can directly contact startups based on shared interests and venture industry, and investors can connect with university student organizations to attend Demo Days and access their community student-founded startups.
🛠️ Features of the Web Tool
1. Database of student-founded startups equipped with search and filter capabilities.
2. Investor database with search and filter capabilities.
3. University entrepreneurship organizations database.
4. University entrepreneurship organizations interactive map.
5. Communication platform for introductions and growing conversations.
6. Investor - Startup matching algorithm: Connecting investors and startups based on similar preferences and industry.
7. Investor - E-Org matching algorithm: Connecting investors and entrepreneurship organizations near and far, based on needs and preferences.
💪 Meet the Team!
Todd Gavin
Computational Neuroscience
University of Southern California
TroyLabs
Michael Shahidi
Business Administration
University of Southern California
TroyLabs
Nimsu Ng
Econ, Philosophy & Accounting
Boston College
Startup@SHEA
Ross Johnson
Computer Science
Yale
Yale Entrepreneurship Society
If you want to join the team, or get involved, send us an email or message us on LinkedIn!
Ready to be a part of the most extensive student entrepreneurship network!