Our mission is to give everyone in the CWRU community an opportunity to explore, develop, and demonstrate entrepreneurial skills - critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and resilience.
We empower CWRU entrepreneurs by leveraging frameworks to drive action, creating opportunities to network and compete, and embracing failure as learning.
We put students in the middle of everything we do. In addition to participating in our programs, you’ll find our talented students collaborating with our team to publish feature stories, capture data and share insights, moderate discussions, host events, manage projects, and more!
THINK, DO, THRIVE
THINK, DO THRIVE reflects the entrepreneurial journey and our commitment to fostering innovation, driving action, and nurturing sustainable success for CWRU entrepreneurs. The Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship at Case Western Reserve University is proud to announce the launch of its new campaign, THINK, DO, THRIVE. This initiative reflects the Institute’s commitment to fostering innovation, driving action, and nurturing sustainable success for CWRU entrepreneurs.
THINK
Our THINK programs are geared towards exploring entrepreneurship. We’re continuously adding new programs and content to make it easy and fun to explore the world of startups. We’re adding new Open House events and THINKFast pitch sessions to more established programs like our Veale Snyder Fellowships, Founder Fridays Speaker Series, and Skills Labs.
- CWRU Entrepreneurship Undergraduate and Graduate Courses and Programs
- Founder Fridays & Speaker Panels
- Skills Labs
- THINKFast
- Student Club Grants
- Veale Snyder Fellowship
- Open Houses
- The CWRU Entrepreneurship Newsletter, Instagram and LinkedIn
DO
Our DO programs are geared towards entrepreneurship in practice. Our competition, grants, and fellowships provide over $200K in funding for customer discovery and prototyping. Our network of experts and collaborative events provide opportunities to tell your story. We’ve doubled our microgrants and added Pitch Playground events to our wildly successful and expanding Veale Faculty Fellowship.
- CES and other Trade Shows
- Speed Mentoring
- Experts in Residence
- THINK, DO, THRIVE Grant Program
- Veale Faculty Fellowship
- Pitch Playground
- Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition
THRIVE
Our THRIVE programs are geared towards scaling startups and building bridges to resources beyond campus.
- CWRU Alumni Venture Fund
- CWRU Founders Circle - coming soon!
- Accelerators
- EIR & Mentoring
- Incubators