Advance your venture: Tsai CITY’s Accelerator, which runs every fall and spring semester, guides students and teams with innovative ideas through the process of building effective organizations, projects, and ventures through workshops, mentorship, and funding.

In the Advanced Founders Program at Tsai CITY, founders will have the chance to interact with a community of peers and mentors to gain valuable insight into growing their established ventures and developing as leaders.

Throughout the year, we offer one-off events to inspire new ideas and spark connections. These events invite our student community to gather in supportive, low-stakes settings.

The Innovator’s Toolkit is a series of free workshops focused on key skills for innovation.

The Climate Innovation Intensive offers Yale students the opportunity to broaden the scope of their entrepreneurship and innovation within climate technologies through a cohort-based program.

The Innovative Thinking Deconstructed intensive at Yale explores the inner workings of creative minds, from entrepreneurs to jazz musicians. Dive deep into the human side of innovation with John Kao. Commit to transformative sessions, self-assessments, and optional ideation processes, all designed to enhance your ability to create future value.

The Investing in Innovation intensive introduces participants to the mindsets, frameworks, and practices that investors use to partner with high-potential innovative early-stage ventures.

The Planetary Solutions Generator is a CBEY and Tsai CITY Intensive that offers Yale students the opportunity to explore solutions to a planetary problem and their real-world application. If you have an idea or solution to a planetary problem, this intensive offers a structured way to explore it.

Student teams build relationships with civic leaders to craft innovative solutions for pressing social issues. Dive into hands-on workshops, connect with influential community figures, and transform your civic passion into impactful action.

Test and launch your venture: the Tsai CITY Launch Pad guides students and teams with innovative ideas through the process of developing their idea and preparing to prototype through self-paced content, coaching, and community building. 

Join Tsai CITY as we explore innovation at Yale, through a series of interviews with student innovators.

The Planetary Innovator Speaker series highlights people who are innovators in the broadest possible sense of the word: from entrepreneurs to researchers to activists to investors.

Storytelling with Slides is a Tsai CITY video tutorial that provides budding entrepreneurs with an introduction into building a pitch deck.

Storytelling with Spreadsheets is a Tsai CITY video tutorial that provides budding entrepreneurs with an introduction into financial modeling for new ventures.

Amplify your venture: The Tsai CITY Summer Fellowship is a multi-week, full-time accelerator to incubate new companies, nonprofits, and initiatives. The fellowship includes $15,000 for each team, along with a rigorous sequence of workshops, sprints, mentorship, coaching, and pitch opportunities.

Get to know Tsai CITY in an interactive orientation.

Joe Tsai will deliver a series of three talks at Tsai CITY on Sports and the World of Digital Innovation.

Hear from inspiring speakers, connect with community members, and share ideas in these free events, which are open to all.

Tsai CITY, in collaboration with the Yale Entrepreneurial Society, organizes a monthly speaker series featuring esteemed founders and entrepreneurs from diverse industries and backgrounds.

LAUNCH is a Camp Yale Program focused on empowering incoming students to leave a remarkable footprint in the world through entrepreneurship.