Free Ventures is UC Berkeley's leading pre-seed startup incubator, crafting highly individualized paths for student founders across industries and academic backgrounds in a 3-month program.

Free Ventures is an initiative for the ...
See More students, by the students. Our mission is to free students from the constraints that hinder exploration, allowing for the pursuit of high-impact ventures. To start out in the efforts to improve life for entrepreneurs on campus, we have put together a program that is launching in Fall of 2013.

In the program students receive two upper division UGBA units for participating in the Free Ventures program, to help ease the load of classe. Free Ventures also gives funding to teams on a need basis, while taking no part of the venture and expecting no money in return. We like to call it a microgrant. Eachh project team is assigned a mentor with project specific background from either industry or academia as well, to help provide real world experience to the team. The program also has guest lecturers that hold workshops and sit down with each individual teams for domain advice tailored to each group, as well as giving students dedicated space to work.

You can see us featured on Bloomberg TV, by the Daily Cal, and by Big Ideas @ Berkeley below. Please feel Free to reach out to us if you want to partake in any way, or think you can help our efforts!

bloom.bg/18TqTN3#ooid=lqa2loYzp2p9X0Dwge33qegsRyrwgSwe
www.dailycal.org/2013/06/19/uc-berkeley-students-participate-in-36-hour-hackfest/
bigideas.berkeley.edu/2013/06/20/bloomberg-hackfest/