The Venture Mentorship Program (VMP) fosters deep engagement with innovators from all nine Johns Hopkins schools, providing business-focused group mentorship to advance emerging technologies.
Through VMP, groups of two to four mentors guide their assigned ventures through the commercialization process about each month. To ensure high-quality engagement, both mentors and mentees must apply to participate.
Leveraging a refined model by MIT, this program provides entrepreneurs with a structured, focused support system of dedicated experts over the course of multiple months. MIT’s program is used nationally by universities and is credited for facilitating very high-value engagements for academic founders.
Program Details
- Open to Johns Hopkins faculty, students, and startups (including early stage)
- Free to mentees
- Mentors are volunteers and are not paid
- Mentors must sign a statement of guiding principles/code of ethics to ensure a trusted environment for mentee
- Focused on the business aspects of startup
- VMP office handles all administrative work including applications and scheduling mentor sessions
How VMP Works at JHTV
Looking for student innovator mentorship? Visit the Pava Center website for more information.
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