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Education & Resources

No matter what phase of the entrepreneurship cycle you're in, there are programs and resources at the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship that will take your idea to the next level.

Discover what the Swartz Center has to offer

Project Olympus - The Incubator Program

Offers support and resources for CMU faculty, students, alumni, and staff who want to turn their research and ideas into startups. Open to CMU entrepreneurs at any stage, you will learn how to find product/market fit and develop a feasible business model.

Startups at the Swartz Center

Work on your startup venture out of an interdisciplinary and collaborative entrepreneurship space

Corporate Startup Lab

Learn about a project course that will pair teams of graduate students with companies looking to be more entrepreneurial

VentureBridge

CMU VentureBridge (VB) is a pre-seed fund and an accelerator program, part of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, focused on supporting Carnegie Mellon founders working on their startups full-time.

CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship Alumni

Focusing on connecting the community, building an entrepreneurial culture, and providing resources for our community to succeed

Family Business at the Swartz Center

Curriculum, speakers and programming to support and grow our Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh-area Family Business Leaders

Entrepreneurship through Acquisition

Entrepreneurs sometimes choose to forgo the traditional model of starting a business from nothing and instead focus on acquiring and operating an already established successful business