September is Innovation Month at the Derby Entrepreneurship Center!
Join us for Innovation Month events throughout the month of September. We kicked off Innovation Month last week with an Entrepreneurship Taco Social where approximately 200 attendees gathered to eat tacos, talk about entrepreneurship, and learn how to get involved with the Derby Entrepreneurship Center and a variety of entrepreneurial student clubs.
Other Innovation Month events this month include a Fletcher D-Prize Info Session, an Ideation Workshop, Cross University Mixer, Pizza Open House, Maker Faire, and more!
Cross University Mixer at MIT - September 23rd at 5:30 PM
The CUSI Mixer is a multi-school collaboration between 17 colleagues and universities, and the list continues to grow. Schools include MIT, Harvard, Tufts, Babson, Boston University, UMass-Lowell, and many more. This event is your chance to connect with other innovators, potential co-founders, or founding team members from other schools.
Learn about the the ENT Minor and the variety of events, workshops, and business plan competitions at Tufts. Connect with representatives from entrepreneurial clubs at Tufts and learn how to get involved.
Join Tufts' Master Maker, Brandon Stafford at NOLOP, Tufts' premiere maker space, for an evening of maker fun. You will learn to make things with your hands in one of the very best academic makerspaces in the greater Boston area. No experience is necessary! Open to students, faculty, and staff members.
ZwitterCo, cofounded by Alex Rappaport, E17, EG19, raises $33M in Series A funding
Alex Rappaport, an alumni of both the Entrepreneurship Minor and the Master of Science in Innovation Management, has raised a $33 million Series A round for his startup, ZwitterCo! ZwitterCo's breakthrough technology, licensed from Tufts University, is transforming performance and economics for industrial wastewater reuse. Congratulations team!
Josh Kapelman, A12, executive vice president and managing director at Hilldun Corporation, DEC Advisory Board member, and Tufts' President's Council member discusses "Tools for Success" and the importance of teaching the entrepreneurial mindset.
Startup Boston Week is a 5-day event that is jam-packed with all of the educational content and networking you could need to start or scale your startup. With each event track designed specifically for a functional role in mind - and each event tagged according to company stage - you’ll find all of the tools and knowledge you need to build the best company.
This immersive exhibition based on Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer prize-winning book uses new data developed by the Princeton Eviction Lab to examine the reasons for and fallout from the millions of American evictions each year.
On November 14th at District Hall in Boston, SeaAhead will host an Innovation Showcase in partnership with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and Orsted. The purpose of this Showcase is to give visibility to novel solutions and facilitate connections between startups and the key stakeholders that can harness innovation that will help secure a more resilient ocean future. Up to 8 startups will be selected to give 5 minute pitches to Blue Economy stakeholders and investors..
Join Invest Day at Tough Tech Summit 2022 on October 27 at Hotel Commonwealth! Connect with Tough Tech CEOs and stakeholders across the capital stack to learn firsthand about cutting edge technologies shaping the industries of tomorrow.
This monthly event is led byHAX investment partners and founders focused on relevant knowledge for hard tech entrepreneurs. We'll cover lessons and best practices across a different technical topic each month (everything from best practices for low fidelity prototyping to how to build a B2B sales pipeline for hard tech), and field questions from the audience. We welcome anyone who aspires to build hard tech and wants to learn from our experiences.
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