Stanford Entrepreneurship Network

Member Organizations

Graduate School of Business (GSB)

• Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES)

  The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) assists innovative Stanford graduate students throughout their entrepreneurial journey. The CES connects students with resources, community, and world-renowned faculty expertise dedicated to demystifying and nurturing their entrepreneurial journey.

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• Center for Social Innovation (CSI)

  The Center for Social Innovation (CSI) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business cultivates leaders to solve the world’s toughest social and environmental problems.

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• Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED)

  The Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED) bridges a critical gap in global efforts to address prosperity around the world by focusing on the private sector as the engine for sustainable growth. Our goal is to transform the lives of people in poverty — on a massive scale — through innovation, entrepreneurship, and the scaling of businesses.

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• Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE)

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Multidisciplinary

• Association of Industry-Minded Stanford Professionals (AIMS)

  AIMS is a postdoc community of future industry leaders, social innovators, and passionate science entrepreneurs.

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• Cross-disciplinary Healthcare Innovation Partnership at Stanford (CHIPS)

  Cross-disciplinary Healthcare Innovation Partnerships at Stanford (CHIPS) aims to foster innovation by connecting Stanford students interested in healthcare across all schools. They do this by hosting networking dinners, innovation forums, lunch seminars with outside speakers, happy hours, and more.

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• European Entrepreneurship & Innovation

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• Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school)

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• Graduate Program in Journalism: Digital Media at Stanford

  Right now, work at Stanford and the broader Silicon Valley is changing the way stories are discovered, told, and transmitted. Stanford Journalism is part of that transformation, empowering students to produce work that is multimedia, data-intensive, entrepreneurial, and influenced by design thinking.

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• Stanford mediaX

  mediaX is the industrial affiliate program to the Human Science and Technologies Advanced Research Institute at Stanford University. Founded in 2002, mediaX connects businesses with Stanford University’s world renowned faculty to study new ways for people and technology to intersect. Insights from mediaX research have been widely applied to communication technologies in research, education, art, business, commerce, entertainment, communication and national security.

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• The Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE)

  The Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford (PIE) serves as the hub of a broad and deep network of experts from various science, technology, behavioral, and policy disciplines who are working independently and collaboratively to solve the world's most pressing energy problems.

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• TomKat Innovation Transfer Program

  The TomKat Center focuses on sustainable energy, transportation and the energy-water nexus. Sustainable energy-related projects with commercialization potential are awarded Energy Innovation Transfer Seed Grants through a competitive selection process. The grants allow researchers to bridge the gap between research support for basic science and private-sector and venture funding. The program will assist participants to develop prototypes, conduct customer trials and develop a more business-centric application of their concepts.

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• Woods Institute for the Environment

  The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment is working toward a future in which societies meet people’s needs for water, food, health and other vital services while protecting and nurturing the planet. As the university’s hub of environment and sustainability research, the Stanford Woods Institute is the go-to place for Stanford faculty, researchers and students to collaborate on environmental research. Their interdisciplinary work crosses sectors and disciplines, advancing solutions to the most critical, complex environmental and sustainability challenges.

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Technology Transfer

• Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)

  Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) promotes the transfer of Stanford technology for society’s use and benefit while generating unrestricted income to support research and education.

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Humanities

• Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)

  Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) is an award-winning magazine and website that covers cross-sector solutions to global problems. SSIR is written for and by social change leaders in the nonprofit, business, and government sectors who view collaboration as key to solving environmental, social, and economic justice issues. Published at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, SSIR bridges academic theory and practice with ideas about achieving social change. Its aim is both to inform and to inspire.

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Stanford Affiliated

• Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs (SA&E)

  Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs seeks to strengthen Stanford’s startup community by fostering relationships among entrepreneurs and alumni investors. Our community approach creates diverse opportunities for education, professional development, advising and mentoring, and growing one’s business and investment portfolio.

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• StartX

  StartX is an educational non-profit that accelerates the development of Stanford’s top entrepreneurs through experiential education and collective intelligence. Industry and stage-agnostic, StartX empowers entrepreneurs in all different sectors — IT, enterprise, medical, hardware, cleantech, legal, etc. — to build community and make greater impact. Our accelerator program is a life-long resource available to the top Stanford entrepreneurs providing over $100k in resources, elite mentorship, customized education, and access to the community of Stanford founders. StartX requires no fees and takes zero equity. In partnership with Stanford University, the Stanford-StartX fund offers funding to entrepreneurs raising capital from professional investors. Applications for founders and staff are open three times a year.

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School of Engineering (SoE)

• Asia Technology Initiative (ATI)

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• Epicenter (National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation)

  The National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) is funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by Stanford University and VentureWell (formerly NCIIA). Epicenter’s mission is to empower U.S. undergraduate engineering students to bring their ideas to life for the benefit of our economy and society. Epicenter hosts entrepreneurship and innovation programs for engineering faculty and students; conducts research on higher education models; offers online classes and resources; and forms communities around entrepreneurship in engineering education.

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• Stanford Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)

  Stanford IEEE is Stanford's student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). They're a group of electrical engineering and computer science students (undergrad and graduate) who want to have fun and meet new people, to learn about research and innovation in technology, to find themselves and their passions, to help the community, and to get inspired to change the world!

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• Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP)

  As the entrepreneurship center in Stanford’s School of Engineering, STVP delivers courses and extracurricular programs to Stanford students, creates scholarly research on high-impact technology ventures, and produces a large and growing collection of online content and experiences for people around the world. STVP is based in the Department of Management Science & Engineering.

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• US-Asia Technology Management Center (US-ATMC)

  US-ATMC is an education and research center with a focus on practical perspectives in international technology management and an analysis of international research trends in selected areas of advanced electronics and information technology. Emphasis is on high-tech industries across Asia, and their impact on the U.S. science & technology community. Areas of research include technology transfer, new product development, IP management, global R&D, and the impact of new technologies on industry structure and emerging market growth.

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School of Medicine

• Biodesign

  Biodesign trains students, fellows and faculty in the Biodesign Process: a systematic approach to needs finding and the invention and implementation of new biomedical technologies. Key components of the program include Innovation Fellowships; classes in medtech innovation; mentoring of students and faculty in technology transfer; career services for students interested in medtech careers; and community events. Biodesign also works to help accelerate the delivery of new technologies into patient care.

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• School of Medicine Career Center

  The School of Medicine Career Center provides critical support for the exploration of career options, development of professional skill sets, and connections to opportunities.

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• SPARK

  SPARK was created in 2007 to help academic researchers and clinicians develop new therapeutics and diagnostics to improve patient health. SPARK helps academics overcome the obstacles involved in moving research innovations from bench to bedside. SPARK educates faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students on the translational research process and path to clinic so that development of promising discoveries becomes second nature within our institution.

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Student Groups

• Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES)

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• Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES)

  The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) is at the heart of student entrepreneurship at Stanford University. As one of the most established student-run entrepreneurship organizations in the world, BASES promotes entrepreneurship education at Stanford University in order to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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• Graduate School of Business (GSB) Entrepreneur Club

  The goal of the GSB Entrepreneurship Club is to stimulate interest in entrepreneurialism among GSB students and other members of the Stanford community.

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• GSB Energy Club

  The Energy Club is the center for energy-related interactions at Stanford GSB, bringing together students, faculty members, and guests to explore issues impacting the oil and gas, wind energy, solar energy, fuel cells, power, and many other sectors. The club seeks to help students pursue their energy related interests and aspirations and develop strong connections to the Stanford energy community.

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• Society for Entrepreneurship in Latin America (SELA)

  The Society for Entrepreneurship in Latin America (SELA) is an international organization of students founded at Stanford University to establish a network of entrepreneurial students throughout Latin America and the United States.

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• Stanford Energy Club (SEC)

  The Stanford Energy Club (SEC) is designed to be the central hub connecting the energy subcommunities at Stanford University. For a student searching for energy related events on campus, a local researcher looking for resources at Stanford, or an organization searching for a way to promote and publicize an event — their goal is for Stanford Energy Club to be the first place to turn to in order to locate and promote energy events and resources.

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• Stanford Law & Technology Association (SLATA)

  Since 1984 the Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA) has engaged the Stanford community with thought leaders at the intersections of law, policy, science, and technology.

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• Stanford Social Entrepreneurial Students’ Association (SENSA)

  Stanford Social Entrepreneurial Students’ Association, SENSA, aims to develop the social entrepreneurial ecosystem at Stanford by developing an understanding of social entrepreneurship on campus and encouraging the formation of for-profit and non-profit social ventures.

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• Stanford Student Space Initiative (Stanford SSI)

  The Stanford Student Space Initiative (Stanford SSI) is a student group dedicated to advancing the next age of space exploration through education, engineering projects and empowering Stanford Students to participate in the space revolution.

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• Stanford Venture Capital Club (SVCC)

  The Venture Capital Club (SVCC) is one of the largest and most popular student organizations at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The club members typically include over half of the business school student body. The club sponsors a variety of group events with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, including small group dinners, speaker series, workshops and social events. Club members range from those with previous VC experience all the way to those who are unfamiliar with the industry, but interested in understanding what makes Silicon Valley entrepreneurship and VC community tick.

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• Stanford Women in Business (SWIB)

  Stanford Women in Business (SWIB) addresses the issues preventing more women from pursuing business careers by: providing business resources, hosting educational events, and maintaining a strong network of professional women. SWIB strongly believes that establishing a long lasting community serving all women on the Stanford campus will naturally prepare them with skills for a successful career in any industry. Through mentorship, events, and networking opportunities with alumni, recruiters, and industry professionals, SWIB serves as the launching pad for the future leaders of the business world. SWIB is also a general business resource to the entire Stanford Community. Throughout the year, SWIB provides career workshops and industry panels for all Stanford students. As the group matures with age and leadership, the vision will remain the same, but the innovation, scope, and impact of Stanford Women in Business will only continue to grow.

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• Stanford Law School Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club)

  The Stanford Law School Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) connects Stanford Law School students to the greater Stanford and Silicon Valley community through networking, thought leadership, and clinical education. A legal mind adds depth and foresight to an entrepreneur’s toolkit. Although a legal perspective is most apparent in the context of a legal problem, it is valuable in any context. The Club promotes the entrepreneurial mind-set and provides an avenue to social entrepreneurship, emerging companies law, venture capital, and founding a company.

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