Venture Founder

Take the next step to transform your invention into impact through Venture Founder

Venture Founder is a 16-week program that supports UBC’s community of UBC students, faculty, staff and researchers who want to build transformative ventures based on their innovative solutions to critical (and often global) problems. The program offers experiential workshops to define and validate your venture opportunity, support from our experienced mentors, and covers foundational and operational topics to establish a viable startup company and build your team’s capacity in leadership, management and business skills.

Who is eligible?

UBC Students, Staff and Researchers pursuing ventures are eligible to apply.

Applications are now open for Venture Founder Fall 2026

Applications for Innovation UBC's 16-week entrepreneurship program are open now until May 31. If you have a discovery to commercialize or a startup idea you're ready to build, we want to hear from you.

 
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