Maryland Launch Fund
Maryland Launch Fund
听搁别蝉辞耻谤肠别蝉 from the USM Innovation Collective
The 海角视频 (USM) provides inventors, entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses with a constellation of resources. The navigable, clickable graphic below shows how these resources related to each other and to the unique assets — Research & Innovation, Training & Talent, and Places & Spaces — that the USM leverages to support the journey from discovery to idea and impact.听
Selected Widely Accessible Resources
Eight selected expansive resources are below — you don’t have to be a student or faculty member to access them!
- , which empower current and aspiring business owners by providing them compassionate, informed, objective, and professional consulting and training; and by connecting them with others throughout our state who can intelligently move their dreams to reality. The may be of particular interest, as they offer subject matter expert services as well, such as legal, accounting, etc.
- Startup Fundamentals Workshops, with upcoming virtual programs and video archives.
- , which trains entrepreneurs in customer discovery to uncover market potential
- , an immersive 12-week program that helps you validate your concept and develop a compelling business pitch
- , which provides up to $200,000 annually in prize money via fall and spring business plan competitions.
- , which offers free co-working space; their accelerator program provides mentoring, space, and a $10k prize..
- , which provides reimbursement for interns.
- , which provides funding for university-based research projects that help the companies develop new products.
- , which provides pro bono help via student talent.
- , which invests in USM-related startups, including those led by alum and located in USM spaces.
- USM Launch Fund, which provides grant funding for USM-related ventures, including those led by alum and located in USM spaces.
Please direct any questions to Lindsay Ryan at launch@usmd.edu.
The 海角视频 comprises 12 public universities, three regional higher education centers, and more than 200,000 people鈥攕tudents, faculty, and staff鈥攄edicated to pursuing knowledge, advancing discovery, improving lives, and strengthening communities across the state and around the world.
