RESOURCES ON CAMPUS
Innovation Incubator
The CSUN Innovation Incubator (Cii) helps students turn business ideas into marketable products and programs, resulting in successful enterprises. Students receive comprehensive and tangible feedback on their mature ventures, including mentorship from professionals with experience developing start-ups. This level of direct interaction with business mentors provides students with a real-world understanding of what it takes to launch a new innovation, something that’s hard to produce in a classroom setting.
Summer Accelerator
The CSUN Summer Accelerator provides competitive applications to create momentum around your start-up venture with an intensive 10 week summer experience. Two company representatives will be awarded full time paid internships to work on their company, and make progress toward achieving a sustainable, profitable venture with product-market fit.
CSUN Innovation Corps (I-Corps)
CSUN Innovation Corps (I-Corps): Interested in money, training, and mentoring to start your business? The I-Corps program provides free, practical training on a proven method to de-risk your venture, develop and test hypotheses, and identify customers. Open to all majors, no business experience required, and no product needed - just an idea!
New Venture Competitions
New venture competitions are a great way to learn more about entrepreneurship while accessing mentorship, coaching, and of course - startup capital! CSUN's Nazarian College hosts two annual new venture competitions - the "Fast Pitch" New Venture Competition in the Fall semester and the Jeff Marine Bull Ring New Venture Competition in the Spring. Students are also encouraged to participate in the Sunstone CSU Startup Launch Competition which showcases the top two startup teams from each of eighteen CSU campuses, pitching in competition for a total prize pool of $200,000!
