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The 2026 New Venture Competition has its finalists! After rounds of applications and semi-final pitches, ten ventures will compete for more than $80,000 in total prizes — with $20,000 going to the first-place winner in each of the NVC's two tracks, General and Social Impact. Second place in each track takes home $10,000, third earns […]
The Innovation Pathway is Boston University’s comprehensive entrepreneurship program for building scalable, innovation-driven ventures. The program supports founders from initial idea validation through venture launch and is built for students from all schools, majors, and education levels up to a year after graduation. So far this spring semester, ten new teams have joined the program […]
Boston University’s New Venture Competition has selected its 2026 semi-finalists, advancing one step closer to determining which student-led ventures will share in this year’s $80k prize pool. The semi-finals include 20 teams — 10 on the social impact track and 10 on the general track. The annual New Venture Competition gives current BU students and […]
Commonwealth’s STEM Advisory Council met with ENG’s Robotics & Autonomous Systems Teaching and Innovation Center and Innovate@BU students to learn about student robotics projects Related posts: Be An Ambassador for Innovation Across BU! Success at Innovators’ Night 2025: $80k in Prize Money, Student Awards, and a Visit from President Gilliam! Farewell “BUild Lab”, Hello IDG […]
Join us in welcoming our new First-Year Innovation Fellowship participants for the Spring 2026 semester! These students are brimming with ambition, dedication, and fresh ideas. We can't wait to see how they grow over the next few months! FYIF is a program designed to give first-years the knowledge and skills necessary to find solutions to […]
The First-Year Innovation Fellowship (FYIF) is a semester-long program designed specifically for first-year students at Boston University. Whether you have a fully formed venture idea or just a problem you care about, FYIF provides the coaching, community, and resources to help you turn passion into impact. And, for the first time, participating in FYIF gives […]
The fall 2025 First-Year Innovation Fellowship wrapped up with 20 first-year students presenting ideas ranging from AI-powered meal planning to self-healing suture pads. Representing seven countries and a variety of BU schools, this cohort tackled problems in sustainability, healthcare access, digital literacy, and beyond. While FYIF has been around for more than five years, this […]
On a summer evening somewhere around week eight, the ten members of the 2025 Enlight Fellowship cohort found themselves at BU Beach, talking about the world's biggest problems and what they intended to do about them. They came from different schools, different disciplines, different countries. But as they sat together watching the sun set over […]