Startup Yale brings together Yale’s biggest entrepreneurship awards in three days packed with pitches, prizes, and world-changing ideas.

During Startup Yale, InnovateHealth Yale, Dwight Hall, the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY) and Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) will be awarding $135,000+ for new ideas. If you plan to apply for this unique opportunity, we will do our best to match you with a mentor or industry expert who may work with you and help you prepare for this event.

To start this process, please complete and submit this Mentor Request Form: https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eYbNKPRrobIzbZX

*The Early Startup Yale Mentor Request Form will be open from November 17th-December 1st, 2021. To learn more about each prize, join us for the Startup Yale info session on November 17th, 2021

The Manolo Sanchez Prize awards $25,000 to a for-profit or non-profit startup with the potential to help improve the financial health of the financially underserved.

This resource, curated by the Yale Entrepreneurial Society, includes links to courses, clubs, and more.

The Yale Innovators’ Prize, part of Startup Yale, is a $15,000 cash prize awarded to the for-profit or non-profit startup that has the potential to produce the greatest impact (financially, socially, or otherwise). The Yale Innovators’ Prize is open to any project, campaign, solution, venture, or non-profit led by a current Yale student(s). 

The Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education, part of Startup Yale, is a $25,000 cash prize awarded to the best student-led venture focused on social innovation in health or education for underserved communities in the United States or low-resource countries.

The Sabin Prize, part of Startup Yale, awards $25,000 to a promising student business venture that advances environmental sustainability.

The Rita Wilson Prize Fund in support of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, part of Startup Yale, is a $10,000 cash prize awarded to the best student-led venture focused on creating a technological solution to address a health disparity in the United States.

The New Haven Civic Innovation Prize, part of Startup Yale, awards up to $10,000 to the best student- or community-led venture or project focused on benefiting the City of New Haven.

The Miller Prize, part of Startup Yale, awards $25,000 to a promising student-led venture working on innovative tech or tech-enabled solutions.

The Yale SOM Donor-Funded Entrepreneurial Awards application is open and accepting submissions. If you are a Yale SOM student founding and launching a venture and are looking for grant funding for your venture, review the application form and apply today! Applications are due March 11. Please write to Patricia Resio with any questions about the applications and awards - patricia.resio@yale.edu.

International entrepreneurs face a number of hurdles when seeking to start a business in the United States. In this event recording, follow attorney Dan Berger as he explains the immigration options available to international entrepreneurs, as well as provides insight into how international entrepreneurs should structure their companies to give themselves the best chance at a secure future in the United States.

The Schwarzman Center's Storyboard is a virtual workshop for sharing ideas and making stories together. It offers an interactive digital space for projects-in-process where Yale makers will have access to a collective media library system and the post-production resources to shape raw media into finished content.