i.Lab at UVA Incubator Participants Give It Their Best Pitch

By Dave Hendrick


The 10-week 2017 startup incubator program at the i.Lab at UVA recently culminated in its annual final pitch night. Nearly two dozen founders distilled the essence of their ventures into two-minute descriptions and made an “entrepreneurial ask” of nearly 100 members of the University of Virginia and Charlottesville entrepreneurial ecosystem in attendance.

The W.L. Lyons Brown III i.Lab, an initiative of the Darden School of Business Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, houses the incubator each summer, offering entrepreneurs from across UVA and the community the opportunity to engage with a group of entrepreneurs and mentors as they develop a business idea.

In addition to a record number of applicants and ventures in the incubator this year, the program incorporated effectuation, the powerful entrepreneurial thought process pioneered by Darden Professor Saras Sarasvathy, as a curricular platform to enhance the skills of the 2017 cohort.

The cohort included a wide variety of ventures from a variety of sectors, including technology, food services and consumer goods, among others.

Read about the new ventures in the 2017 i.Lab Incubator on the i.Lab at UVA blog.

Watch the 2017 i.Lab final pitch night.

About the University of Virginia Darden School of Business

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences. Darden’s graduate degree programs (MBA, MSBA and Ph.D.) and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact. Darden’s top-ranked faculty, renowned for teaching excellence, inspires and shapes modern business leadership worldwide through research, thought leadership and business publishing. Darden has Grounds in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area and a global community that includes 18,000 alumni in 90 countries. Darden was established in 1955 at the University of Virginia, a top public university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

 

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