Tsai CITY is delighted to welcome 12 student teams to our 2024 Summer Fellowship cohort. This full-time accelerator is tailored for ventures ranging from companies and nonprofits to transformative initiatives, each demonstrating significant traction and sustainable models.

Startup Yale 2024 celebrated Yale and Greater New Haven's innovations with pitch-offs, informative sessions, networking opportunities, and panels on entrepreneurship and innovation. The event featured a keynote on monetizing attention and building successful short-form content businesses, and awarded prizes to outstanding entrepreneurial ventures across various fields. Keep reading to learn more.

If you're an entrepreneur preparing for your first investor meeting or about to begin fundraising, you may find pitching to investors a daunting task. So, what steps should you take to prepare for this critical stage in moving your venture towards a sustainable future?

Located in the lower level of Davenport College and led by Anjelica Gonzalez, Tsai CITY Faculty Director and head of Davenport College, the Davenport Innovation Studio is a revamped activity space. Its goal is to offer workshops and mentorship opportunities to improve students' interdisciplinary professional skills. With a focus on student-led innovation, the studio is a place that fosters and motivates students to push their boundaries and explore their creative pursuits.

Discover how VDP teams ranging from healthcare to the arts are shaping their future as Yalies.

Tsai CITY initially created the Student Advisory Board (SAB) in 2017 to represent student voices within Tsai CITY’s development. As the center established itself on campus and COVID-19 altered the educational landscape, the SAB evolved into the Student Fellows program, providing new methods of student engagement that better align with Tsai CITY's evolving aims.

On Friday, November 17th, over two hundred students, alumni, and community members gathered at Tsai CITY to celebrate the accomplishments of the Fall 2023 Accelerator teams in their biannual pitch-off event.

Starting a company is hardly an easy endeavor. From raising money to developing a product, there are a number of things that need to happen to get a venture off the ground. So how do entrepreneurs best optimize their skills and resources in order to create success? 

The WE@Yale Women Innovator Series will be reimagined this fall as We@Yale Community Table. Here, anyone passionate about empowering women and non-binary entrepreneurs can come together to share sustenance and resources, her-stories and hopes, and innovate on ways to create a more equitable landscape for all women.