Programs

Tsai CITY programs offer diverse entry points to innovation and entrepreneurship, from drop-in sessions to multi-week, application-only programs. Whether you have a big idea you’re ready to build on or just want to explore the tools of innovation, we can help you get there.

Get inspired with talks from leading innovators, community events like pitch slams and fail nights, and other low-stakes opportunities to connect. Learn a new skill in a workshop, or take a deep dive into a specific topic in a semester-long intensive. Build on an idea — whether it's a concept for a venture, nonprofit, or some other innovative project — in our venture development sequence of programs, from the Tsai CITY Launch Pad to our Accelerator and Summer Fellowship. Take a look at our current lineup of programs.

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.

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

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 Product Development & Innovation Intensive, a partnership with L’Oréal, CEID, the Greenberg Engineering Teaching Concourse, and Tsai CITY, gives students an insider look at what it means to innovate and develop consumer goods within large organizations.

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Programs

Accelerator

Advanced Founders Program

Innovator's Toolkit Workshops

Intensive: Investing in Innovation

Intensive: Product Development & Innovation

Launch Pad

Storytelling with Slides: An Open Tutorial on Pitching Your Venture

Storytelling with Spreadsheets: An Open Tutorial on Startup Financial Modeling

Summer Fellowship

Yale INSPIRE Series

Yale LAUNCH