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GET INVOLVED, BUILD YOUR SKILLS
Become your own type of entrepreneur with our diverse selection of mind-opening and skill-building initiatives. Whether you want to start a local tree-planting business or go global with a groundbreaking app idea, you’ll find your place at IE University.
Our initiatives are powerful tools for growth, a way for you to hone the skills, mindset, and behaviors needed for success in any company and any industry. These skills include, but are not limited to:
- Creativity
- Resilience
- Adaptability
- Risk management
- Sales/marketing savvy
- Financial literacy
- Leadership
Become a persuasive presenter by pitching valuable ideas, boost your confidence at networking events, sharpen your business savvy in a startup lab, strengthen your leadership abilities in group projects… The experience is what you make it. Make it count.
TAKE THE FIRST STEP
Did one of our initiatives pique your interest? Get in touch and we’ll help you get the ball rolling. Your journey starts today.
INCUBATING INNOVATION
Venture labs
Our startup accelerator is the IE Venture Lab , which helps teams create ready-to-launch startup projects. It’s open to all our students and alumni and offered as an elective within the International MBA program.
IE Entrepreneurship Club
Created by students, for students, this club creates unique initiatives to promote entrepreneurship in the IE Community and beyond.
IE Startup Experience
This initiative serves as a bridge, connecting talented individuals with promising startups, fostering collaboration and the growth of the entrepreneurial community at IE. In this platform, IE startups can post their available positions, while current IE Students can explore and find opportunities to gain valuable entrepreneurial experience.
EMPOWERING ENTREPRENEURS
Venture Networks
Every Thursday at 7pm in Area 31, you can join in the fun to pitch, brainstorm, and network with potential investors in an informal setting. These sessions are open to students, entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone curious about startups and entrepreneurship.
Madrid Venture days
IE Venture Days hosted in Madrid are full- or half-day conferences and start-up pitch competitions where you can meet and mingle with startups, investors, corporations, accelerators, and industry experts.
TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SCALEUPS
IE University's scaleup training program, led by experienced entrepreneurs, focuses on achieving exponential growth by optimizing sales strategies, raising capital, and developing a data-driven culture. Participants gain actionable insights into pricing, scalability, organizational structure, technology management, and leadership, preparing startups for sustainable success.
VENTURE CAPITAL PROGRAM FOR STEAM WOMEN
Supernovas Women2Invest, organized by the EIT Community and delivered by IE University, empowers women with STEAM backgrounds to launch careers in venture capital. The program covers startup fundamentals, the European VC market, business model analysis, due diligence, valuation, term sheets, negotiation skills, portfolio management, impact investing, and exit strategies, along with internship opportunities at VC funds, ensuring participants gain the skills and connections needed to succeed in the VC industry.
INTRAPRENEURIAL PROGRAMS
IE University designs and executes intrapreneurship programs that guide corporate teams in developing internal innovation projects, leveraging extensive expertise in entrepreneurship and innovation. Our programs cultivate an innovation culture, engaging participants to generate and implement valuable new ideas within their organizations
upcoming venture days
BOOSTING GLOBAL STARTUP ECOSYSTEMS
South Summit
Since its founding in 2012, South Summit has grown into a leading annual entrepreneurship event that has attracted more than 25,000 startups from more than 120 countries, and has achieved more than $10 billion invested in our finalists.
What we focus on:
- Getting new funding for startups
- Discovering open innovation initiatives by connecting startups to corporations looking to disrupt
- Connecting startups to potential future partners and clients
- Giving startups visibility and reach
- Inspiring the world through mentors, success stories, business leaders, and experts, etc
- +1800Ranking international investors
- 6160Entrepreneurs
- 686Speakers
International Venture Days
Bringing together startups, investors, corporations, accelerators, and industry experts, IE Venture Days are international events that support and nurture the entrepreneurial community by providing a platform for knowledge sharing, networking, and collaboration, fostering innovation and the growth of startups.
Elle Talent Project
In partnership with IE Business School, Elle Magazine hosts an exciting competition that celebrates the ambitions of young entrepreneurs by seeking out the most inventive, imaginative, and feasible business projects, offering an attractive cash prize and an invaluable full scholarship for the Master in Management program at IE Business School to the winning entry. Bounce your ideas around and be mentored by pros in this innovation incubator.