The Center for Entrepreneurship has leveraged the entrepreneurial ethos that has long been knitted into the fabric of Brown. Our goal? To inspire the next generation of Brown students to create solutions with impact. Join graduating seniors, their family members and guests, and alumni and friends of the center to celebrate and reconnect in our…

The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and the Slater Technology Fund invite you to a special summer sushi networking event featuring the participants of the Nelson Center's venture accelerator, the Breakthrough Lab (B-Lab). Join us for a fun-and-fish-filled event with a mix of entrepreneurs, technologists, and investors. You’ll meet the 14 student ventures participating in this year’s program. Our founders come from all…

Join us in our new building on Thayer Street to meet the staff, faculty, mentors, and student groups from the entrepreneurial ecosystem on College Hill. Learn about a wide variety of resources from venture support grants and programs, student organizations, start-up focused events, and entrepreneurship-focused courses.  All this and an ICE CREAM SUNDAE BAR! 🍨…

A defining feature of the American Dream is upward income mobility — the ideal that children have equal opportunities to succeed in life, regardless of the circumstances of their birth. Join The Policy Lab and John Friedman, Professor of Economics, International Affairs, and Public Policy at Brown University and Founding Co-Director of Opportunity Insights at…

As managing director of the Slater Technology Fund, Thorne focuses on the earliest stage of company creation, often working with university-based teams commercializing research. He serves as board member for Voltserver, Datarista, Advanced Image Enhancement, and Tizra Software, and as a board observer at Squadlocker, Drive Time Metrics, eNow, Aquanis, Location, Inc., and RxVantage. He…

Amy Wolf '90 is a partner at Lykos Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on consumer products and retail companies in the lower mid-market. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Hex Performance Detergent, Dancing Deer Baking Co. and Premama Wellness (founded by a Brown alum). Prior to investing in consumer…

Join the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and the Brown EP club for a roundtable discussion with former HBO executive Bernadette Aulestia '94. Learn more about her personal story and interdisciplinary career, as well as come and ask questions about the infamous streaming wars. Aulestia also mentors start-ups on the relationship between culture and business results alongside…

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Since completing her undergraduate degree at Brown University and a Masters at the University of Cape Town, Elspeth has coordinated global student internships, driven sustainable solution initiatives for numerous NGOs (both in the USA and South Africa) and led community impact programs. She is passionate about transnational learning and cross-cultural experiences. Recently, she has been…

HOW I FORGED MY OWN ENTREPRENEURIAL PATHWAY, FROM THE SOVIET BLOC TO BROWN TO WALL STREET TO FIN TECH Entrepreneurial careers can take many forms and endure different life cycles. Meet Alla Bashenko BA-MA ’98, who left her home in the Soviet Ukraine with just $100 in her pocket having been awarded a full scholarship to Brown.…

Need help with your startup? Or discovering how to find customers? Join Deb Millscofield ‘82, who will lead a workshop that will show you how to find out if your idea has any value to your targeted customers (or just to you). Learn how to recognize a problem and how to create a solution that…

Brown EP and the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship are excited for an upcoming Roundtable Discussion with Tom First '89 and Tom Scott. In order to ensure a personalized experience for all the participants, the roundtable is limited to 10 students. Those interested in participating should complete this form by Monday, November 5 at 7:00 pm.…

Sign up for an appointment here! 2nd floor, Nelson Center conference room Piali De, PhD is a co-founder and CEO of Senscio Systems, a technology company whose vision is to be a leader in technology platforms that automatically make sense of varied and voluminous data to support informed decision-making. Piali De is the co-inventor of…

As managing director of the Slater Technology Fund, Thorne focuses on the earliest stage of company creation, often working with university-based teams commercializing research. He serves as board member for Voltserver, Datarista, Advanced Image Enhancement, and Tizra Software, and as a board observer at Squadlocker, Drive Time Metrics, eNow, Aquanis, Location, Inc., and RxVantage. He was…

Game-changing conversation, centered around curated, can't miss, innovation inducing content.   Startup forum is a place to gather and watch world-class curated collection of videos (and podcasts) featuring some of the most innovative entrepreneurs in the world. This is followed by immersive free-flowing group discussions, idea exchange, and insight from your peers, mentors, and thought…

Young Entrepreneurs of Providence (YEP) is an eight-week long after-school innovation accelerator for local high school students. Throughout this accelerator, the cohort of students has been working in teams to ideate, prototype, and test their own entrepreneurial pursuits. Attend Pitch Night to hear pitch ideas from all five amazing teams. RSVP on Facebook. 

Join the U.S.-Israel Binational Industrial R&D (BIRD) Foundation and the Rhode Island Israel Collaborative for a discussion on BIRD's funding opportunities (up to $1,000,000) for innovative products based on industrial R&D. Attendees will hear from Avi Nevel, CEO of the Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative (RIIC), learn about BIRD's funding opportunities from Andrea Yonah, Director of Business Development, East…

Join Brown EP and the Nelson Center for a Roundtable Discussion with Charlie Kroll '01, Co-Founder and President/COO of Ellevest. Come discuss Charlie's entrepreneurial career, his experiences helping build one of CNBC’s top 50 "Disruptor" companies (Ellevest), and the fintech industry. In order to ensure a personalized experience for all the participants, the roundtable is…

Join Deb Mills-Scofield ‘82, Mentoring Maven with the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship for her first-ever advisee meet-up. You might know her well for her love of blue lobsters, a unique, one-of-a-kind sea creature. The dozens of students she mentors she sees as unique individuals and hopes you can all come together to network as well…

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, PhD Author of Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigration, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans. She also has two forthcoming books titled, “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Critical Gender Perspective (2020) and “A Transnational Approach to Entrepreneurial Ecosystems.” Linda Scott, PhD Author of “The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women” coming out…