Velocity Incubator & Venture Capital Fund
Velocity is an incubator for pre-seed technology startups from the University of Waterloo and around the world. The program is designed to guide and amplify early-stage start-ups as they turn ideas into scalable companies with the potential for positive, global impact. We invest in ambitious founders with bold ideas that scale. Velocity offers product development labs, collaborative workspaces, manufacturing equipment, and funding paired with expert business support from seasoned professionals and past founders.
Velocity takes rolling applications and invests $50,000 in companies. Founders must be willing to join the incubator to work on their company full time and must demonstrate they can build a company that solves a $1B+ problem.
Velocity is an incubator for pre-seed technology startups from the University of Waterloo and around the world. The program is designed to guide and amplify early-stage start-ups as they turn ideas into scalable companies with the potential for positive, global impact. We invest in ambitious founders with bold ideas that scale. Velocity offers product development labs, collaborative workspaces, manufacturing equipment, and funding paired with expert business support from seasoned professionals and past founders.
Velocity takes rolling applications and invests $50,000 in companies. Founders must be willing to join the incubator to work on their company full time and must demonstrate they can build a company that solves a $1B+ problem.
Velocity
Fulltime-program / Courses
UWaterloo students, staff and faculty
Anytime
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Every term
UWaterloo students, staff and faculty
Multiple sessions
Concept
Program Overview
Cornerstone is the culmination of the student entrepreneurial process. It’s a community of student founders all looking to start their careers in entrepreneurship. They are actively building out their business plans through customer discovery and validation while getting coaching and support from their fellow student teams, Concept coaches, Velocity founders and business advisors. The goal is to gain enough traction by graduation to join a top-tier accelerator/incubator program or attract investment.
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Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business
Fulltime-program / Courses
Undergraduate students
Every term
Program Overview
Do you want to put an entrepreneurial spin on your undergraduate degree at Waterloo? Get a jump-start on your entrepreneurial path by enrolling Conrad School’s specialized academic programs and courses:
- Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (BET) Courses
- Minor in Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship Option in Engineering
- Entrepreneurial Mindset Career Specialization in SAF
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Fall term
Graduate students
Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business
Program Overview
Get your graduate business degree while you build your venture. The MBET degree is a professional, practical, course-based master’s program for people who want to make things happen. Offered in 2 formats: one-year full-time and three-year part-time program.
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Problem Lab
Multiple sessions
UWaterloo students, staff and faculty
Anytime
Program Overview
Connect with a member of the Problem Lab to talk about the problem spaces you are interested in exploring and ideas you may already have. With a sea of knowledge, our experts can help direct you on the right path of problem identification to create a start-up or business.
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