Last Friday, students at the Weiss Tech House held an event to relaunch the Innovation Fund, reaffirming the organization’s commitment to helping student entrepreneurs create successful companies.
The event featured talks from entrepreneurs and a venture capitalist and was followed by a networking session during which students could ask questions about starting companies and getting funding. The relaunch comes at the heels of a variety of organizational changes within Weiss Tech House made to better help students develop their ideas and further cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurship on campus.
Founded in 2003, the Weiss Tech House Innovation Fund is a mini venture capital fund that helps develop student-founded startup companies. Students outline their product and business models to the committee that runs the fund, and if their visions are compelling, they can receive between $500 and $2,000 to grow their ideas.
Wharton graduate student Naif Alhujilan came to the relaunch event…