Venture Mentoring Service

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

Leaders of the MIT Innovation Initiative say the new Proto Ventures Program will be unlike anything else in higher education.

With new Proto Ventures Program, MIT Innovation Initiative turns ideas into impact

MITii will hire experts to pursue new business opportunities by matching MIT expertise and innovation with real-world problems.

April 2, 2019

As drones increasingly take on the job of inspecting growing solar farms, Raptor Maps' software makes sense of the data they collect.

Optimizing solar farms with smart drones

MIT spinoff Raptor Maps uses machine-learning software to improve the maintenance of solar panels.

January 30, 2019

The YenAra (in Twi, a local language in Ghana, meaning “our very own”) backpacks team, now in AFEP, is developing advanced, functional, yet stylish backpacks that encourage individuals to showcase their creativity through socially responsible ways. Pictured are two of the founders, Sedinam Worlanyo (left) and Bolutife Fakoya, both Swarthmore College alumni, presenting at Swarthmore SwatTank An...

AFFOA and VMS launch Advanced Fabrics Entrepreneurship Program

Year-long program will give early-stage entrepreneurs a leg up in the functional fabrics industry.

April 13, 2018

During StartMIT, freshman Jason Seibel and MIT Sloan graduate student Sadia Khuram resolve a role-play conflict negotiation — amicably.

Make it your business

StartMIT, a boot camp on entrepreneurship, gives students an intimate look into what it takes to build a company.

February 7, 2017

Startup launches theft-proof, weatherproof bikes

Slava Menn aims to make cycling safer and easier in cities worldwide.

May 30, 2016

MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service (VMS) has helped launch more than 50 other mentoring programs worldwide through the VMS Outreach Training Program.

A model for mentoring

MIT VMS has become the basis for more than 50 entrepreneur-mentoring programs worldwide.

February 9, 2016

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