McMaster Invests $90K in Student Startups
Hamilton Business Review
“Six student and alumni startups have been awarded $15,000 each through the new McMaster Student Seed Fund to advance their innovations ranging from AI-enabled reforestation to 3D-printed prosthetics.
Their judges? Fellow students from McMaster’s first cohort of Investor Analyst Fellows.
Sponsored by the McMaster Entrepreneurship Academy and The Forge, the new seed funding is available to students and recent alumni who have completed entrepreneurship programming at McMaster.
The Investor Analyst Fellowship is a 10-week part-time program in which 20 students learn venture capital (VC) fundamentals from experienced mentors. The first group of fellows applied their new skills by evaluating Student Seed Fund applications.
The two programs are designed to work together, expanding experiential learning opportunities within the innovation ecosystem, says Leyla Soleymani, McMaster’s associate vice-president, Research (Commercialization and Entrepreneurship).
‘These programs – the first in Canada – are integral to our entrepreneurship training,’ says Soleymani.”
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