Building a company? Apply to join the StartX community.
StartX has accelerated the development of some of Stanford's best entrepreneurs, in fields from clean tech and bio tech to consumer internet and enterprise software.
Our founders range from undergrads and masters students to post docs, professors, and Stanford alumni. We are proud to be building a community of all the top founders from Stanford.
Our founders have released products, become profitable, raised funding, been acquired, and been covered extensively in the press, including TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal, Inc Magazine, Forbes, and many more.
"StartX has been instrumental in helping us develop as entrepreneurs. The community is very supportive and has pushed us to never give up. Our mentors routinely go beyond our expectations to advise us and connect us to their personal networks so we can reach our goals. I would strongly advise any entrepreneur serious about starting a company to apply to StartX."
- Andrew Lee
Stem Cell Theranostics, StartX Fall 2011
"StartX provides a network of mentors that is truly world class. The cumulative breadth of knowledge of the mentors, coupled with their willingness to work closely with StartX entrepreneurs has accelerated our business tremendously, and our team is confident that we would not be where we are today without the support and counsel of our mentors."
- Keaton Swett
Mindsumo, StartX Winter 2011
"StartX mentors are accomplished entrepreneurs who guide you in building your vision into reality, without pushing their own vision on to you. The tools, insights, success and failures they shared, inspired us and helped us learn to purposefully make effective decisions that soon turned out to be of great strategic importance for the success of our business."
- Pratik Verma
AgeTak Inc., StartX Spring 2011
Drug screening using human cardiomyocytes derived from patients to accelerate the drug development process. Technology recently received a $20M grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine
MindSumo provides organizations a platform to post real-world challenges for college students to solve. Raised $1M.
AgeTak builds solutions for healthcare and financial markets that simplify: combining enterprise data assets, maintaining identifiable-information privacy, and creating legal proof-of-compliance.
StartX benefits from the best mentors in Silicon Valley ranging from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to industry experts and professors. We benefit from having access to faculty and lecturers from the Stanford community including the Engineering, Business, Medical, and Design Schools. We have a large roster of experts in a wide range of industries and functions who help the founders with everything from pricing models and marketing to FDA consulting and sales.
The mentors will provide your teams with guidance and advice based on your specific needs through calls, lectures, and informal meetings. By forming personal relationships with the best and the brightest entrepreneurial minds, you will not only gain access to their unique networks, but also be provided the guidance you need to start your company off on the right track.
"StartX has become a center for the top talent out of Stanford to learn from inspiring Silicon Valley mentors and launch their careers as entrepreneurs. I'm excited to be part of the community."
"I've mentored several terrific StartX companies over the past year. StartX has some amazing and truly dedicated staff members. Many, many times the StartX team is working side by side with their startups at 9pm or later. It's a great program which I definitely recommend."
"StartX is from Stanford student entrepreneurs and for Stanford student entrepreneurs. I’ve been impressed with the quality of students going through the program, the progress they make and the support they receive from staff and other volunteers. With its educational mission, the StartX experience is nothing a Stanford class or a commercial incubator could match."
"StartX Launches The Best of Stanford Startups"
Forbes
"This Is Why You'll Be Jealous You Didn't Go To Stanford: Inside StartX"
Business Insider
"StartX, The Accelerator For Stanford Students, Wins $800K Grant From The Kauffman Foundation"
TechCrunch
"Stanford StartX Graduate Tackle Cell Therapy, Mental Health, Batteries"
Xconomy
"I thought the story about how his company came about was really quintessential Silicon Valley, and what we can expect to see a lot of from StartX Med."
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
"Stanford students, alumni help each other with their startup dreams"
Stanford News Service
"At StartX, Stanford students... get to swap tips with other founders and take advantage of mentoring opportunities from venture investors and other experts."
The Wall Street Journal
"Stanford's nonprofit accelerator StartX nabs $800K funding grant"
VentureBeat
"How To Start Up with StartX"
Fast Company
"StartX Helped Launch More Than 90 Companies"
Bloomberg Businessweek
"The best example of a university accelerator done right."
PandoDaily
