In Spring 2021, Brown Innovation for Health will launch an incubator: Brown Hatch Health, in partnership with the Nelson Center. Through the 9-week program, students will go from idea to MVP by engaging in workshops by healthcare experts, social events, dedicated mentorship from clinical partners, venture pitching and more! Attend the info-session on Tuesday, December 1st at […]

Laura Thompson ’09 has spent the past decade working on radical innovations aimed at solving the world’s toughest problems. Laura was an early product lead at Google X, where she drove product strategy for science fiction-sounding technologies including self driving cars, smart contact lenses, and delivery drones. While at X, she spread the team’s learning in […]

Working on an idea? Interested to learn more about how the Nelson Center helps students launch ventures? Join us to learn more about our 8-week summer accelerator Breakthrough Lab (B-Lab) and the $50k Brown Venture Prize (BVP), our two marquee venture support programs. You will meet the Nelson Center team, along with alumni of our […]

Join the Brown Alumni Entrepreneurship Group for the second event of its inaugural event series, highlighting some of the most prominent Brown alumni founders in the University’s recent history, whose company valuations have each surpassed a billion dollars. The event features a virtual one-on-one networking reception where attendees can interactively explore other attendees and speakers […]

Join the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship for a series of Startup Zoom Rooms led by Jonas Clark, Associate Director of the Nelson Center. These hour long Zoom sessions are intended for aspiring entrepreneurs to learn about a specific topic as well as connect with aspiring founders. You can sign on at any time during the […]