The newsletter from Yale's hub for innovation and entrepreneurship | January 2023

Last month’s Yale Life Sciences Pitchfest featured 31 Yale faculty innovators presenting their innovations to 325+ people from 120+ companies, and 14 industry judges.

A MESSAGE FROM YALE VENTURES

Connecting Yale’s Innovation Ecosystem

We’re looking forward to a year filled with opportunities to connect with you, Yale’s innovators, entrepreneurs, and our community partners, through new and existing programming, events, and experiences.

2023 Innovation Events: Yale is home to an exciting line-up of innovation events, whether you’re looking for inspiration, partnership, or support for your ideas. Below you’d find these events, including the Innovation Summit on May 31–June 1, 2023—we hope to see you there.

Introducing Venture Lab: This month we’re pleased to launch a new faculty-focused innovation program, Venture Lab, designed to support faculty founders who have established proof-of-concept data and are looking to accelerate their venture development.

As you will see in this newsletter, we are highlighting more news and events from the broader Yale innovation and entrepreneurship community. Have an event, news, or profile to share? Email us

Josh Geballe

Managing Director, Yale Ventures

Senior Associate Provost for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Yale University

Innovation Events

FEATURED

Yale Healthcare Hackathon

Feb 24 -Feb 26, 2023 | Register

Clinicians, engineers, designers, software developers, business managers, and patients will come together in a three-day weekend to develop and build solutions to address challenges facing healthcare today. This event is free and open to the public.

UPCOMING

CTNext: NIH & NSF SBIR/STTR Proposal Preparation Workshops:

January 18: NIH Proposals

January 19: NSF Proposals

Collaborative CT: 2023 Kickoff

January 19: 4:30 to 6:30 pm | Register

Startup Yale Orientation

January 24: 4 to 5 pm

Startup Yale Applications Due

February 12 | Submit

SAVE THE DATE

amplifyHERscience Innovators Ignite

March 7, 2023

Startup Yale

March 30-31, 2023

YHack

April 7-9, 2023

Yale Innovation Summit

May 31 - June 1, 2023

All innovation events

New & Noteworthy

Introducing Venture Lab for Yale Entrepreneurs: Accelerating Yale faculty-led ventures across domains

Venture Lab is a new program designed to support faculty founders across domains who have established proof-of-concept data and are looking to accelerate their venture development to reach their next milestone through intensive coaching sessions with industry and investment experts. Learn more

Innovators' Ignite hosted by amplifyHERscience: Showcasing women and underrepresented innovators

During International Women’s Week (March 4 - 7, 2023), Yale Ventures’ amplifyHERscience will host Innovators Ignite, a showcase featuring underrepresented founders/inventors from Yale and across Connecticut. Learn more & apply

Yale Innovation News

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

Q&A with

Teresa Chahine:

Advancing social entrepreneurship at Yale

Sheila and Ron ’92 B.A. Marcelo Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship

“You’ve probably heard about entrepreneurship and intrapreurship. In my Yale classes, we started using this term “extrapreneurship” to explain how we innovate across organizations. It is thinking beyond the boundaries of one company, mobilizing resources across multiple institutions, and working with many different types of capital.” Read more