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.

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 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.

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.

RAMP//UP is an advanced student founder 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.

This spring 2023 program is a facilitated collaboration between students and faculty innovators. 

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.

The Venture Project Associates Team is a team of students from Tsai CITY that can help grow or develop a part of your venture. Whether it's developing a brand guide, a new marketing strategy, or a new product, the Venture Project Associates Team can help!

This speaker series is designed to foster community discussion, idea sharing, and best practices.

Wiggin and Dana has committed to providing $10 million in free legal services to minority-owned businesses over 10 years through the Wiggin Opportunity Initiative (WOI).