Orange Central LaunchPad Alumni Reunion

Orange Reunion

It’s Orange Central Weekend and we miss you. Wear your orange and bring your favorite pumpkin to our first ever LaunchPad alumni reunion.  See your old friends from across the country and around the world. BYOBO (bring your favorite own orange beverage) for a quick hello Friday, October 30 from 7:30 to 8 p.m. ‘Cuse…

Impact Prize Pitch Workshop

LaunchPad Discord

LaunchPad Thursday Technical Workshops are 3 p.m. weekly, coordinated by the Syracuse University LaunchPad at SU Libraries, with subject matter experts offering practical advice on the most common questions asked by those exploring the startup world. Open to faculty, staff, students, alumni and the community. Dates:  September 4, 10, 17, 24: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29;…

Fireside Chat: George Dawson ’08, Techstars Fund Controller

ILC Zoom

Dawson is based at Techstars headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, where he leads the organization’s fund and investment finance team which oversees 50+ venture capital funds and internal investment vehicles and a portfolio of approximately 4,000+ investments.  Dawson is responsible for all aspects of portfolio company valuations, accounting, investor reporting, operations and fund structuring, and plays…

Virtual Mentor Week

This event is in partnership with the Blackstone LaunchPad and Techstars global network. Network with top advisors, mentors, founders and industry executives from across Techstars who will be generously volunteering for a week of virtual meetings to help start, seed and grow ideas that are coming out of the 32 universities now in the network.…

Innovation Law Center Virtual Office Hours

LaunchPad Discord

The Syracuse University Innovation Law Center + New York State Science & Technology Law Center (NYS STLC) is partnering again with the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars at Syracuse University Libraries to hold office hours for innovators and inventors this academic year. Law students will lend their technical expertise to SU innovators working to commercialize…

Social Impact Leadership Panel

Please join us for a dynamic Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars speaker series focusing on social impact. The series, open to all LaunchPad students, is being offered as part of the Fall 2020 LaunchPad Fellowship program. It will address unique elements required for achieving success with social impact student startups, including leadership, scalability, funding and for-…

Pitch Workshop

LaunchPad Discord

LaunchPad Thursday Technical Workshops are 3 p.m. weekly, coordinated by the Syracuse University LaunchPad at SU Libraries, with subject matter experts offering practical advice on the most common questions asked by those exploring the startup world. Open to faculty, staff, students, alumni and the community. Dates:  September 4, 10, 17, 24: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29;…

Impact Prize Competition

Impact Prize Competition, social impact entrepreneurship event, with social impact entrepreneurs as judges, $15,000 in prizes. Applications opening soon. Watch for details.

Healthcare Social Entrepreneur Fireside Chat

Please join us for a dynamic Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars speaker series focusing on social impact. The series, open to all LaunchPad students, is being offered as part of the Fall 2020 LaunchPad Fellowship program. It will address unique elements required for achieving success with social impact student startups, including leadership, scalability, funding and for-…

Startup Huddle: What’s the secret to raising millions of dollars in seed funding in one month?

Syracuse LaunchPad superstars Jack Kuveke, co-founder of Huddle, and Matt Shumer, co-founder of Otherside AI, have launched new ventures and raised millions of dollars this past month.  They join an elite group of LaunchPad startups — SparkCharge, PowerSpike, CLLCTVE, Verse Gaming. Gamercraft and a few others — who have raised more than $12 million this year in a pandemic.  What’s the secret to…