Venture Lab
Venture Lab is Yale Ventures’ innovation platform designed to empower Yale faculty entrepreneurs at any stage of their venture development journey.
By integrating tailored mentorship, curated resources, business strategy support, and funding guidance, Venture Lab accelerates the translation of groundbreaking discoveries into impactful ventures. Whether you are refining an idea, launching a startup, or scaling a business, Venture Lab provides the tools and community to accelerate their discoveries into new ventures.
Venture Lab exclusively supports Yale faculty in their entrepreneurial journey, offering tailored resources and expertise.
From early-stage ideas to scaling ventures, programs like Venture Lab Workshops meet innovators where they are, equipping faculty with critical skills for commercialization.
Faculty entrepreneurs gain access to experienced Executives-in-Residence (EIRs) and Investors-in-Residence (IIRs) for strategic guidance.
Resources like the Innovation Library offer curated entrepreneurship education, providing tools to turn groundbreaking ideas into ventures
Offers actionable strategies to secure funding at every phase of venture development, from seed to scale.
Signature workshops like Customer Discovery and Digital Health Clinic equip faculty with critical skills for commercialization.
Venture Lab Programs
Venture Lab programs are tailored to support Yale faculty innovators at every stage of their entrepreneurial journey, offering hands-on workshops like Customer Discovery to refine ideas and the Digital Health Clinic to address sector-specific challenges. These programs provide the tools and insights needed to navigate the commercialization process with confidence.
Workshops are an integral part of the Venture Lab experience. The workshops are organized around expert coaching sessions with Yale Ventures EIRs, entrepreneurs and executives in residence. Each workshop is organized by the Yale Ventures team, selecting EIRs and analysts to match the needs of the faculty innovator in order to offer targeted feedback and accelerate their venture development. Learn more about Venture Lab workshops.
For faculty and graduate students/postdocs who have developed groundbreaking science or technology innovations, Venture Lab Customer Discovery offers essential training, funding, and mentorship for teams with early stage ventures. This program guides teams through the crucial stages of customer discovery and solution validation. With a clear pathway to the national NSF I-Corps Teams program and potential access to a $50,000 grant, this program uniquely positions participants to successfully translate their innovations from the lab to the market, enhancing their appeal to investors and attracting top talent to their research teams. Learn more about Customer Discovery.
Digital Health Clinic provides specialized content delivered by Yale faculty and experienced digital health innovators, designed to accelerate the development of your digital health innovations. Participants will receive personalized guidance through three 1:1 sessions with Yale Ventures digital health experts, focusing on product functionality, market demand, and best practices in digital health product development. After these sessions, teams will have the opportunity to advance to the Customer Discovery program, supported by a dedicated mentor. The program concludes with a tailored Venture Lab Workshop, led by Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs) with deep expertise in digital healthcare. Learn more about the Digital Health Clinic program.
Venture Lab Resources
Venture Lab offers comprehensive resources to support Yale faculty in transforming their discoveries from lab to impact. From the Innovation Library’s curated entrepreneurship education to personalized mentorship with Executives-in-Residence (EIRs) and Investors-in-Residence (IIRs), as well as tailored funding strategies and business services, Venture Lab equips faculty entrepreneurs with the expertise and tools needed for successful commercialization.
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