Application
Start your entrepreneurial journey with the Pava Marie LaPere Center for Entrepreneurship.
Program Details
- In-person in the fall, online in the spring.
- Later-stage track designed to help committed ventures get market/investor ready.
- Focuses on customer acquisition, marketing development, entrepreneurial finance, investor readiness, team-building, and more via customized attention (workshops, 1:1 mentorship, and more).
- Teams should budget 10+ hours a week for their accelerator involvement
- Weekly cohort meetings throughout the semester with special guests (founders, investors, JHTV staff, and more).
- Highly customized mentorship throughout the experience–includes peer, staff, alumni, and industry connections as part of the program.
- Teams who complete the experience are eligible for a $5,000 grant stipend and up to $15,000 in additional prize money at the end-of-semester Demo Day.
- Successfully completing Fuel may help prepare teams for I&E Challenge Funding, the President’s Venture Fellowship, and/or other accelerators.