WVU Tech Launch Lab
What is the Launch Lab?
The WVU Tech Launch Lab is a resource center for students and the WVU Tech Community
to help launch new businesses, products and prototypes. It is a collaboration with
the
WV Hive, an entrepreneurship program of the New River Gorge Regional Development
Authority.
How do I use the Launch Lab?
The Launch Lab at WVU Tech can help you launch a new company or product and help
bring your designs and dreams to fruition. Our services are free for students,
faculty and staff of WVU Tech. Contact us today to take the first step into turning
your ideas into reality!
What does the Launch Lab offer?
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Meeting spaces for start-up teams and networking opportunities
- Business idea competitions where clients can pitch their ideas and earn funding to help reach their goals
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Campus resources , as well as the resources from WVU and the WV Hive
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Makerspace at the WV Hive, which can help clients make 3D models and prototypes of products
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Classroom space for events and instruction
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Ability to work with students to help test, design and build your creations
Do you have a great idea for a business or product?
Contact us to take the first step.
Launch Lab Events:
Pitch Southern West Virginia business idea competition
APPLICATIONS DUE FEB. 27
Pitch your business idea and win up to $2,000. The WVU Tech Launch Lab invites
WVU Tech students, faculty and staff, and entrepreneurs and businesses of the
southern West Virginia counties of Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas, Summers, Webster,
Pocahontas, Greenbrier, Monroe, Mercer, Wyoming, McDowell, Logan and Mingo to
submit their ideas.
The business idea competition is limited to entrepreneurs of new start-ups and
businesses in operation for less than three years. The best proposals submitted
will be invited to give five-minute, in-person pitches of their business ideas
before the reviewers. The reviewers will engage in a question-and-answer session
with each presenter.
WVU Tech Launch Lab Director