Stanford Technology Ventures Program

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Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) is the entrepreneurship center in Stanford’s School of Engineering. Housed within the Management Science & Engineering (MS&E) Department, we deliver courses and offer extracurricular programs to the Stanford community. Our faculty create scholarly research on high-impact tech ventures that informs our growing collection of online educational resources for educators, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the world on Stanford eCorner.

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Location

United States, California

Employees

11-50

Founded date

1996

Investment Type

Accelerator

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Mar 25, 2022	Jeeves	tryjeeves.com	$443M	United States, Florida, Miami

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Dec 26, 2016	Stanford students are using lean startup principles to help fight ISIS	The ISIS beheadings of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. The radicalization of San Bernardino shooters Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. The Orlando nightclub massacre. Social media, encrypted messages, or online propaganda from ISI...
Dec 26, 2016	Stanford students are using lean startup principles to help fight ISIS	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The ISIS beheadings of journalists James Foley an...
Feb 9, 2016	Daily funding roundup - February 9, 2016	Fuze raised $112M; Trifacta received $35M funding; Digital Shadows snagged $14M funding Stash, an investment app for millennials, raised $3 million in seed funding to continue the company’s growth. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based ...
Feb 9, 2016	Draper Fisher Jurvetson raises $350M for its 12th fund	The 30-year-old firm has backed SpaceX, Box, Twilio, Baidu, Redfin, to name a few (Updated with comment from Josh Stein of DFJ) Early stage venture fund Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) has raised a new $350 million fund, its 12th,called DFJ V...
Sep 12, 2014	Entrepreneurs need a framework for finding the crucial germ of a business idea	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas i...
Sep 12, 2014	How to think like an entrepreneur: The Inventure Cycle	The latest thinking on the foundational skills necessary to build a new venture The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startups begin with a series of untested hypotheses. They succeed ...
Sep 12, 2014	Entrepreneurs need a framework for finding the crucial germ of a business idea	The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startups begin with a series of untested hypotheses. They succeed by getting out of the building, testing those hypotheses and learning by iterati...
Jul 1, 2013	Philly university launches venture arm to give its entrepreneur ecosystem a front door	John Fry, the president of the university, told reporters at a press conference that it’s partly designed to make Philadelphia more competitive with the likes of innovation hubs Palo Alto and Boston and better able to retain talent. “The ge...
May 25, 2013	Stanford BASES - a model for University entrepreneurs	BASES lets students get hands-on experience knowing what it means to be an Entrepreneur (Updated to reflect comment from the University of Kentucky) A study done by research firm Startup Genome, called the Startup Ecosystem Report 2012, mea...
Oct 19, 2012	Mark Zuckerberg To Speak Tomorrow At Y Combinator Startup School	Mark Zuckerberg has been understandably very busy in the months since he took Facebook public — closing and integrating the billion dollar Instagram acquisition, overhauling Facebook’s mobile strategy, jetting to far-flung places to build t...
Oct 9, 2012	Startup communities - building regional clusters	Building a regional entrepreneurial culture is critical How to build regional entrepreneurial communities has just gotten it’s first “here’s how to do it” book. Brad Feld’s new book Startup Communities joins the two other “must reads,” (Reg...
Oct 8, 2012	‘Startup Communities’ book delivers roadmap for Silicon Valleys everywhere	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! This post comes to us from Steve Blank. How to bu...
Apr 22, 2012	Paintball	I was up at Columbia University on thursday speaking to Steve Blank's students. Steve did a weeklong version his Lean LaunchPad class at Columbia last week. During the Q&A, a student asked me how I engaged with the startups we invest in...
Mar 7, 2012	Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations	Part 1 of 2 Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. Here are the first five. It Feels Like 20 Years Ago Today It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we taught the firs...
Oct 13, 2011	The Helsinki Spring	I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship. I was invited to F...
Oct 10, 2011	Nokia as 'He Who Must Not Be Named'	... and the Helsinki Spring I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. (Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!) I presented to 1,000’s of en...
Oct 7, 2011	The Helsinki Spring	Entrepreneurship in Finland I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepre...
Aug 1, 2011	How scientists and engineers got it right ...	... and VCs got it wrong Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs are one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. It might be its most important. ———- ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley, was ...
Aug 1, 2011	Eureka! National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Trains a New Generation of Scientists in Business	Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. It wasn’t pure research, but rather a culture of taking sufficient risks to get products to market through learning, discovery, iteration and e...
Jul 28, 2011	National Science Foundation Unveils a Startup School Modeled on Steve Blank’s Lean LaunchPad	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Incubator madness has reached all the way to Washington, D.C. The National Science Foundation announced today that with the help of private-sector partners, it plans to put at...
Jul 28, 2011	Eureka!	A New Era for Scientists and Engineers Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. It wasn’t pure research, but rather a culture of taking sufficient risks to get products to market throu...
May 10, 2011	Final Presentations - The Lean LaunchPad	Stanford class showcases the dynamics of entrepreneurship The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This last post – part nine – highlights the final team presentations. Parts o...
Apr 7, 2011	One Hand Clapping: Entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints I spent a few days in March in Ann Arbor Michigan as a guest of Professor Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Dean for Entrepreneurial Programs, and Doug Neal, Director of Center for ...
Apr 7, 2011	One hand clapping	Entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor, Michigan I spent a few days in March in Ann Arbor Michigan as a guest of Professor Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Dean for Entrepreneurial Programs, and Doug Neal, Director of Center for Entrepreneurship in the E...
Feb 22, 2011	A visitor's guide to Silicon Valley	Behind-the-scenes tour spotlights region's entrepreneurial spirit If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/d...
Jan 27, 2011	International business model competition	Helping transform entrepreneurship in Utah Utah may be known for many things, but who would have thought that Utah, and particularly Brigham Young University (BYU), would be participating in the transformation of entrepreneurship? I spent l...
Jan 27, 2011	In Utah, Developing the Science of Entrepreneurship	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Utah may be known for many things, but who would have thought that Utah, and particularly Brigham Young University (BYU), would be participating in the transformation of entre...
Jan 4, 2011	Creating the Next Silicon Valley—The Chilean Experiment	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile, which just signed up a 3-year coll...
May 12, 2010	Should an entrepreneur have an MBA?	I usually hear the “Should I get my MBA?” question at least once a month. If you’re an entrepreneur, the glib answer is “no.” It’s also the wrong answer. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second...
Dec 3, 2009	Global Innovation Tournament gets students thinking about saving	If you’re looking for the next Mint.com, you might find it in one of the videos below. True, there’s a big gap between presenting making a video about a cool idea (which is how these 22 student groups won this year’s Global Innovation Tourn...
Sep 30, 2009	Shooting for the Moon: How Universities Can Turn Innovation into Companies	Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twit...
Jul 19, 2005	Update: AlwaysOn (Day One)	Event: AlwaysOn Previous Post: July 19, 2005 What’s Happening? Great start to the conference. Cocktail hour(s) followed by a number of panels and discussions. This is clearly going to be a great event – a live webcast is available here, wit...
	A VC fled Ukraine as a child. Here's how he's helping refugees escape from his homeland.	Alex Gurevich fled Ukraine when he was 6. Now he's giving back to Ukrainian refugees. Javelin This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Redeem now Alex Gurevich's first real memorie...
	Philly university launches venture arm to give its entrepreneur ecosystem a front door	As Philadelphia-based Drexel University prepares to open its school of entrepreneurship this fall, it has launched a venture arm to identify and cultivate entrepreneurs in its community. Drexel Ventures will manage an innovation fund to pro...

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FAQ about Stanford Technology Ventures Program

When was Stanford Technology Ventures Program founded?

Stanford Technology Ventures Program was founded in 1996.

How many startups has Stanford Technology Ventures Program invested in?

Stanford Technology Ventures Program has 2 portfolio companies on Parsers VC, among them Jeeves.

What has the press written about Stanford Technology Ventures Program?

Parsers VC has collected 35 articles mentioning Stanford Technology Ventures Program, among them “Stanford students are using lean startup principles to help fight ISIS” (Dec 26, 2016) and “Stanford students are using lean startup principles to help fight ISIS” (Dec 26, 2016).

Is Stanford Technology Ventures Program still active?

Yes, Stanford Technology Ventures Program is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 8, 2017.