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Winter Mixer, January 14th from 5:00-6:30pm

audra huffmeyer — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:41:44 +0000

Happy New Year and welcome back to campus. Bruins! Startup UCLA is hosting our January Mixer on Tuesday, January 14th from 5:00–6:30 PM in Covel Commons, Room 203, and we’d love for your members to join us!

This is a great opportunity to meet the Startup UCLA team, learn about our programs, and connect with other students interested in entrepreneurship. Refreshments will be provided.

Please RSVP here: https://airtable.com/appunkVWZB5PZuQxY/pagvmVmYY7R3Kgnz4/form

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Summer Accelerator Demo Day 2023

joanna reynolds — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 22:01:58 +0000

Demo Day 2023 is here! You are invited to see Startup UCLA’s 2023 Summer Accelerator teams pitch to the UCLA and Los Angeles entrepreneurship community. Join us to see 10 UCLA startups showcase their latest innovations and connect with the UCLA entrepreneurship network. Come for the pitches and stay for a reception with food, drink and community. RSVP at 2023startupuclademoday.eventbrite.com.

Demo Day 2023
Thursday, September 7th, 2023, 6PM-9PM
Covel Commons, Grand Horizon Room
330 De Neve Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Startup UCLA Summer Accelerator 2023 Cohort

Athlete to Athlete pairs high school students with college athlete mentors
Player’s Bounty is a unique secure platform where gamers unite to create bounties for various video games
Toolit is building AI applications without code
WorkUp is a new interactive video-based professional networking app
Digital Bot Lab provides training and testing for robots in the metaverse
Neonic is a pickleball company that makes black light pickleball paddles, hosts events and more
Recbox Games makes the GameNite, a controller-less gaming console designed for tabletop games
Four Resolutions Incorporated uses 3D mapping to determine where to plant trees for healthier air, cooler cities, and more
Aeyesky makes casino table game data collection easy
OpalAi is a company that generates digital twins of physical spaces

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2023 Summer Accelerator – Last Chance to Apply!

madison watkins — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 19:55:45 +0000

Deadline approaching! This is your last chance to apply for Startup UCLA’s 2023 Summer Accelerator. Focus on your startup this summer and get access to customized 1 on 1 coaching, co-working space, skill-building, grant funding and mentors. Deadline this Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 11:59PM.

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Innovation Fellows Kickoff!

madison watkins — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:53 +0000

We are excited to announce that we officially kicked off our 2023 Innovation Fellows program! Our Orientation and Legal Workshop launched this Wednesday. We are looking forward to working with this year’s co-hort of faculty teams.

A big thank you to Josh Geffon, Partner at Fenwick, for running our Legal Formation Workshop. We are proud to have Fenwick as a sponsor, helping to make our work possible.

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Student Group Feature: Bruin Ventures

madison watkins — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:15:24 +0000

Student Group Spotlight: Bruin Ventures!

Bruin Ventures is a student-run organization that aims to educate members about the startup, tech, and venture capital industries through a rigorous training quarter and fireside chats with industry leaders.

Every quarter, BV partners with VC firms and startups across the country and work with them to provide investment strategies, market research, customer acquisition, and more.

Interested in joining? Bruin Ventures recruits new members through a three-step application process during fall and winter quarters. To learn more, visit their website at http://uclabv.com.

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2023 Summer Institute – Registration Now Open!

madison watkins — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:45:46 +0000

Applications for our Social Entrepreneurship Summer Institute are open! This program is for high school students interested in social entrepreneurship. In this hands-on summer intensive, students will learn the basics of starting, building, and running social enterprises and non-profit organizations.

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Winter 2023 Bruin Impact Challenge – Apply Now!

madison watkins — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 00:00:02 +0000

Have an idea to spur social change? The Bruin Impact Challenge is back!

The Bruin Impact Challenge is a competition for UCLA student social enterprises and non-profit projects. The competition equips students with an entrepreneurial mindset to cultivate ideas that drive positive social or environmental impact and develop leaders of change.

Submit to the first round by February 17th.

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Innovation Fellows – Apply to Join the 2023 Cohort

madison watkins — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 02:05:54 +0000

Applications Open! UCLA’s Innovation Fellows is a program that cultivates entrepreneurship among UCLA faculty. We are looking for faculty teams working on innovative projects who want to elevate and advance their ideas.

The program includes workshops, events and 1:1 coaching that will deepen participants knowledge of entrepreneurship and bring their project to the next level.

Deadline February 5th.

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Fireside Chat & Pitch Night

madison watkins — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:55:25 +0000

Join us next week for Fireside Chat & Pitch Night with Lightspeed Ventures Partner Faraz Fatemi and Fenwick Partner Thomas Kang as they discuss how changes to the public markets are cascading down into venture. They will explore market conditions for companies and how to navigate this new normal.

Join us for a fireside chat, networking and food, and a special pitching session for select UCLA startups with feedback from Lightspeed and Fenwick.

If you’d like to participate in the pitch session, email us a summary and/or link to a pitch deck at startup@college.ucla.edu to be considered.

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Startup UCLA 2022 Summer Accelerator Demo Day

madison watkins — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:55:09 +0000

UCLA students, alumni, and faculty, as well as members of the greater Los Angeles community, are invited to come watch the eight teams in this year’s Summer Accelerator cohort pitch their startups on September 7th from 6-9pm at UCLA.

Register through Eventbrite via the link in our bio, or by visiting linktree.com/startupucla. Please note there will also be an option to attend Demo Day virtually, and a Zoom Webinar registration link will be posted to the Eventbrite in the coming weeks. We hope to see you on September 7th!

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