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Stanford Venture Studio

The Stanford Venture Studio is an entrepreneurship hub for graduate students exploring new venture ideas. It connects students to resources, entrepreneurial expertise, and an interdisciplinary community of peers and alumni.

Highlighted Offerings of Stanford Venture Studio

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Office Hours

Weekly opportunities to meet one-on-one with entrepreneurial advisers who have expertise in marketing, finance, design, team building, and more.

Student teams showcasing their ideas at Demo Day.
Demo Day

Venture Studio teams have the opportunity to showcase their ideas to experienced founders, industry leaders, and investors.

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The NGP CoLab

The CoLab is equipped with tools for ideation, prototyping, and experimenting.

The Stanford Venture Studio is self-directed and unstructured, offering students a trusted network of mentors, advisors, peers, and alumni to guide them in the process of developing a new business idea while exploring entrepreneurship as a career path.

Network

An ecosystem of peers, alumni, investors, and industry partners.

Expertise

Advice and mentoring at every stage of your venture.

Resources

Free startup tools and services to get you started.

Space

24/7 access to coworking space in the NGP CoLab.

Stanford Venture Studio is open to:

  • Currently matriculated in-person full-time graduate students from any Stanford school
  • Teams of any size (solo founders are welcome)
  • Venture ideas from any sector

Eligible teams are welcome to join at any time, even during the summer!

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See What Stanford Venture Studio Students are Exploring

Every year, Stanford Venture Studio supports hundreds of student teams as they explore and test new venture ideas, culminating each spring in Demo Day, where students showcase the ideas they’ve been working on as part of their learning.