University programs in United States
Source: FundingWatcher. Data as of 4 September 2026.
92
University programs in United States
92
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8
Stages recorded
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Other types here
92 rows
| # | Name | Location | Investments | Lead | Exits | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plug and Play | Sunnyvale, United States | 2,592 | 352 | 230 | 104 |
| 2 | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | New York, United States | 251 | 224 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | OUP (Osage University Partners) | Bala Cynwyd, United States | 232 | 13 | 66 | 0 |
| 4 | Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship | St Louis, United States | 150 | 149 | 16 | 0 |
| 5 | Berkeley SkyDeck Fund | Berkeley, United States | 144 | 18 | 12 | 0 |
| 6 | IDEA: Northeastern University's Venture Accelerator | Boston, United States | 131 | 51 | 9 | 0 |
| 7 | ASU Venture Devils | Tempe, United States | 131 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | MIT delta v | Cambridge, United States | 129 | 67 | 21 | 0 |
| 9 | ATDC | Atlanta, United States | 120 | 19 | 12 | 0 |
| 10 | Harvard Innovation Labs | Boston, United States | 111 | 91 | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | Holekamp Seed Fund | St Louis, United States | 105 | 105 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | CITRIS Foundry | Berkeley, United States | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Texas A&M Innovation | College Station, United States | 76 | 20 | 5 | 0 |
| 14 | Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation | Chicago, United States | 65 | 37 | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | IU Ventures | Bloomington, United States | 44 | 12 | 6 | 8 |
| 16 | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation | Madison, United States | 42 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 17 | CREATE-X | Atlanta, United States | 41 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Purdue Foundry | West Lafayette, United States | 35 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Buffalo Innovation Seed Fund | Buffalo, United States | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | University Growth Fund | Salt Lake City, United States | 24 | 4 | 13 | 0 |
| 21 | UC Investments | Oakland, United States | 18 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 22 | Polsky Center at the University of Chicago | Chicago, United States | 17 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | CatalyzeCU | Boulder, United States | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | University of Chicago New Venture Challenge | Chicago, United States | 12 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | YEI Innovation Fund | New Haven, United States | 12 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 26 | MSU Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach | Mississippi State, United States | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Simon School Venture Fund | Rochester, United States | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 28 | Iowa Innovation Challenge | Iowa City, United States | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine | Evanston, United States | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | SCADpro Fund | Savannah, United States | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | RedHawk Launch Accelerator | Oxford, United States | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Northeastern University | Boston, United States | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | UConn Innovation Fund - University of Connecticut | Storrs Mansfield, United States | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Princeton Alumni Entrepreneurs Fund | Princeton, United States | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 35 | Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship | Pittsburgh, United States | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Flyer Pitch Competition | Dayton, United States | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Arthur Vining Davis Foundations | Ponte Vedra Beach, United States | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Illini Angels | Chicago, United States | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | UM Ventures | Baltimore, United States | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals | Cleveland, United States | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Vanderbilt University Office of Investments | Nashville, United States | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 42 | Lorain County Community College Innovation Fund | Elyria, United States | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 43 | NYU Impact Investment Fund | New York, United States | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | Penn Venture Lab | Philadelphia, United States | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 45 | Rebel Venture Fund | Las Vegas, United States | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Columbia Technology Ventures | New York, United States | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | RCT BioVentures | Tucson, United States | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 48 | UChicago Startup Investment Program | Chicago, United States | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | UCSF Foundation Investment Company | San Francisco, United States | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Pitch Dingman Competition | College Park, United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 51 | Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund | Ann Arbor, United States | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 52 | Arrow Capital | Berkeley, United States | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | The Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, United States | 3 | 0 | 1 | 30 |
| 54 | University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, United States | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 55 | Van Wickle Ventures | Providence, United States | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 56 | Yale Ventures | New Haven, United States | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 57 | Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator | Berkeley, United States | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 58 | Heartland Challenge | Fayetteville, United States | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 59 | University License Equity Holdings | Boulder, United States | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 60 | University of Missouri Enterprise Investment Program | Columbia, United States | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 61 | California State University | Long Beach, United States | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 62 | Columbia Angel Group & Entrepreneurs | New York, United States | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 63 | UM Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Oxford, United States | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 64 | University of Cincinnati Technology Accelerator for Commercialization | Cincinnati, United States | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 65 | University of Utah Endowment | Salt Lake City, United States | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 66 | Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program | Washington, United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 67 | Florida State University - Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship | Tallahassee, United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 68 | Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students | Washington, United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 69 | Joust New Venture Competition | Orlando, United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | MakerLaunch | Louis, United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 | Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 72 | The Bernard Osher Foundation | San Francisco, United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 73 | The Edward E. Ford Foundation | Brooklyn, United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 74 | Ventureprise, Inc. | Charlotte, United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 75 | 6th Element Inc | Texas, United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 76 | APSG sponser | Miami Beach, United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 77 | AWE net | Chester Heights, United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 78 | Carlsen Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship | Sacramento, United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 79 | Innovation Fund North Carolina | Elyria, United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 80 | The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center | New York, United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | The M&T Innovation Fund | Philadelphia, United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 82 | Wharton Ventures | Salt Lake City, United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 | Anderson Venture Impact Partners | Los Angeles, United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 84 | Enterprise Development Center (EDC) | Newark, United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | Jacobs School of Engineering | La Jolla, United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 86 | MaroonX Accelerator Program | Starkville, United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 | NYDesigns | Long Island City, United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | ScanExplorer | San Francisco, United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 89 | Start:ME Evanston | Cincinnati, United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 90 | The Launch Pad | Coral Gables, United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | U-M Tech Transfer | Ann Arbor, United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 92 | UW-Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs | Eau Claire, United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Table 1. University programs in United States, by recorded investments. Source: FundingWatcher. Data as of 4 September 2026. Base: 92.
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Cite: FundingWatcher, 92 university programs in United States, 4 September 2026. https://fundingwatcher.com/investors/university-programs/united-states/