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Summer Accelerator 2024 BootSector

May 31 @ 12:00 am - June 7 @ 12:00 am EDT

Summer Accelerator

Amount: $4,000 in prizes

Deadline: May 31, 2024
Requirements: Must be an undergraduate and graduate students. Participants will need a Social Security Number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number in order to collect any prize money awarded. Recent graduates from Feb ’24 or May ’24 are eligible to apply.

Application Open: Monday, March 25, 2024 at 5:45 PM (US/Eastern)
Deadline: Friday, June 07, 2024 at 11:59 PM (US/Eastern)
Virtual
Application created by UB Blackstone LaunchPad
https://ubuffalo.startuptree.co/application/form/2a268ac9-ad09-41c8-8321-f6f0006ef654

How does the program work?

 Are you making the most of your time this summer? Are you taking steps to get closer to your goals? Now is the time to apply yourself. Join us for this virtual experience, which will provide you the content, contacts and coaching you need to accelerate your future.

Selected teams will meet regularly during the week to work on and launch their venture. Teams will have access to:

  • Mentorship
  • Industry leader expertise
  • Founder roundtables with your cohort
  • Workshops – and more!

Teams that meet program requirements will also have the opportunity to compete for up to $4,000 in prizes at the end of the summer.

Don’t have a venture, but still interested in using your summer with purpose? Apply as a free-agent and work with a team!

What’s my time commitment?

Teams must commit to the full duration of the program;

Selected teams should expect to spend about 2.5 hours per week on virtual program calls and another 10-15 hours working on their venture asynchronously when your team decides.

  • All members meet once per week for 8 weeks, Tuesdays at 12:00pm – 2:00pm EST, on Zoom.
    • This is an amazing experience for students with an early-stage idea and/or students that are founder curious — exploring the world of entrepreneurship.
  • Don’t have a venture but interested in using your summer with purpose? Apply as a free-agent and contribute your talent as a team member

 

Key Dates

  • Friday, May 31: Application Deadline 
    • All applications must be submitted by 11:59 PM ET
  • Tuesday, June 11: First session  | 12 pm – 2 pm
  • Tuesday, July 30: Last session  | 12 pm – 2 pm

Who can apply?

UB’s Startup and Innovation Collaboratory powered by Blackstone LaunchPad is proud to host a new summer accelerator for undergraduate and graduate students as well as recent grads. We also welcome students from other WNY Colleges and Universities or Blackstone LaunchPad campuses to apply.

Eligibility: Any part or full-time students. Participants will need a Social Security Number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number in order to collect any prize money awarded. Recent graduates from Feb ’24 or May ’24 are eligible to apply.

Contact [email protected] with questions.

Use the “Apply Now” button on this page to submit your Application.

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Summer Accelerator

Amount: $4,000 in prizes

Deadline: May 31, 2024
Requirements: Must be an undergraduate and graduate students. Participants will need a Social Security Number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number in order to collect any prize money awarded. Recent graduates from Feb ’24 or May ’24 are eligible to apply.

43North

Amount: Up to $1MM

Deadline: June 7, 2024
Requirements: Winners must provide 43North with 5% equity in your company in the form of a warrant. Winners must also agree to locate your CEO and 50% of your staff in Buffalo for at least 12 months as well as participate in monthly programming.

Good Neighbor Fund

Amount: Up to $1,000

Deadline: None
Requirements: Good Neighbor Fund awards $1,000 micro-grants to ideation-stage founders every quarter in order to inspire and support under-resourced founders to build their dreams. Proudly powered by BootSector!

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On Freedom

 

Freedom is a precious and fragile gift. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

 

Memorial Day is not only a time to remember and reflect that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost and imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we—in a less final, less heroic way—be willing to give of ourselves.

 

I am grateful for each of you, and I hope you have a peaceful and refreshing Memorial Day.

Jordan Walbesser
Executive Director, BootSector

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