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Eight-week accelerator focused on marketing, sales, branding, and business planning for small business owners in Dover, housed at DSU's Center for Urban Revitalization and Entrepreneurship.
Six-month investment accelerator investing up to $100K in high-growth startups with focus on under-resourced entrepreneurs through intensive programming and investor access.
Learn more →Eight-week hybrid accelerator cohort providing expert-led training in marketing, sales, finance, funding, and operations, culminating in a business plan and pitch deck.
Learn more →Free 6-week venture-creation accelerator for DSU students and technologists to ideate, validate, and build high-growth startups with mentorship and product development support.
Learn more →Free 6-week venture-creation accelerator for DSU students and technologists to ideate, validate, and build high-growth startups with mentorship and product development support.
Learn more →Free 7-week pre-accelerator providing individualized coaching, mentor connections, and investor introductions for early-stage startups, focused on BIPOC and female founders.
Learn more →Free 7-week pre-accelerator providing individualized coaching, mentor connections, and investor introductions for early-stage startups, focused on BIPOC and female founders.
Learn more →IGNOSI is a MedTech-focused incubator and accelerator based in Wilmington, Delaware, supporting inventors building medical technology startups. The program provides state-of-the-art lab infrastructure for prototyping, animal experiments, and engineering, along with business development, legal, and patent law support. IGNOSI offers founder-centered, cohort-based mentoring with tailored investor connections.
Learn more →Annual idea submission and pitch competition that transforms innovative ideas for Delaware's economy through a structured 6-month development process with mentorship and grant funding.
Learn more →Spin In® is a University of Delaware OEIP program that connects early-stage entrepreneurial companies with interdisciplinary teams of undergraduate students (technical, marketing, business, design, and policy). Student teams help develop and advance promising ideas and technologies along the commercialization pipeline, while gaining real-world experience and a part-time paycheck.
Learn more →Annual pitch competition for tech-enabled startups with at least one founder from an underrepresented group, offering $100,000+ in nondilutive grant funding.
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