Funding
Receive financial support for your ideas
Whether it's receiving seed funding or being awarded funding to kick off your idea, The Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship helps you and your business idea grow.
Funding Opportunities
99 Tartans
99 Tartans is an angel investment network of CMU alumni. If you are an early-stage CMU alumni startup, apply to 99 Tartans for investment consideration.
McGinnis Ventures - Funding
In addition to being a great platform to receive mentorship, the McGinnis Ventures Competition at CMU allows winners to ignite their startup ideas with up to $60K in investment funds.
VentureBridge
The VentureBridge Summer Accelerator is a 10 - week program hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area each summer. The program is designed to create networks with mentors, customers, and early stage investors. Sessions include: Mentor matching, investor feedback, founder dinners, and more. The university invests $25,000 in each company. Companies also receive many other in-kind services.
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Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund
OFEF is a new, groundbreaking model for providing early-stage business financing to CMU alumni who have graduated within the past five years. The OFEF is not a business plan competition in which only entrepreneurs with the best ideas receive funding. Instead, it's open to recent CMU graduates who have the desire to become entrepreneurs and to contribute to the university’s innovation ecosystem.
Project Olympus - Spark Grants
The Olympus Spark Grant Fund helps Olympus PROBE students kick-start their business ideas. Every semester, students submit proposals and pitch their ideas to investors, with winning PROBEs going on to receive funds. The funds are provided by charitable gifts from alumni and other community donors.
Gap Funding
The Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship may have opportunity for startup funding outside its competitions and traditional funding programs. Please contact the Swartz Center to learn more.
Campus Partners
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