Manchester’s student-run accelerator offers founders up to £8,000 without taking equity. Its more unusual experiment is keeping the network alive as one generation hands the keys to the next.
Purdue Innovates connects university inventions with licenses, founders and capital. Its most revealing work happens when a promising idea meets an inconvenient customer.
Berlin’s university startup service offers founders free advice, lab access and a route to equity-free funding. The harder assignment is teaching a good experiment to become a business.
Before the pitch comes the practice. The Berkeley-born nonprofit turns volunteer expertise into structured help for student startups, clean-energy innovators and the organizations backing them.