Venture Mentoring Service

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A new hub for MIT innovation and entrepreneurship

InnovationHQ in Kendall Square is home to several entrepreneurial support organizations and features space for startup activities, networking, and education.

September 7, 2021

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Cleaning up industrial filtration

MIT spinoff Via Separations aims for industrial decarbonization with its durable graphene oxide membranes.

August 3, 2021

Speeding up clinical trials by making drug production local

Professor Tim Jamison’s company Snapdragon Chemistry helps turn the latest innovations in chemistry into impactful drugs.

June 11, 2021

From gas to solar, bringing meaningful change to Nigeria’s energy systems

Chemical engineering senior Awele Uwagwu works to accelerate the adoption of solar energy in Nigeria.

June 2, 2021

MIT’s innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) community has stepped up to the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic — and perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than in the new Covid-19 Rapid Innovation Dashboard, pictured, which features more than 50 projects, research initiatives, startups, and global activities undertaken by the MIT community to respond to the crisis.

MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem steps up to the challenge of Covid-19

Entrepreneurial groups around the Institute have launched initiatives to address challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.

April 2, 2020

Candorful uses video conferencing to facilitate mock job interviews between volunteer coaches and military personnel to help prepare them for civilian job interviews.

Helping military veterans nail that interview

Interview coaching startup Candorful helps veterans transitioning to civilian life prepare for job interviews.

January 28, 2020

Chemical engineering graduate student Justin Swaney is applying machine learning to music production. “There’s a lot of manual searching to get the right musical result, which can be distracting and time-consuming,” says the co-creator of a new tool to help producers find just the perfect sound.

Machine learning you can dance to

MIT grad student startup Samply uses algorithms to help music producers find the perfect sound.

September 18, 2019

The MIT Venture Mentoring Service has been facilitating team-based, conflict-free mentoring for students at MIT for nearly 20 years. Now the VMS model is helping students around the world.

Mentoring model developed at MIT spreads to new campuses

The Venture Mentoring Service partners with universities around the U.S. and abroad to support local entrepreneurs.

May 31, 2019

Alec Dingee in front of the former VMS office in the early 2000s

Alexander Dingee, co-founder of MIT Venture Mentoring Service, dies at 88

Successful entrepreneur launched VMS with David Staelin to provide young innovators with advice from others who understand the challenges of building a business.

April 5, 2019