entrepreneurship@UBC is a campus wide initiative led by the Sauder School of Business, the Faculty of Applied Science, the Faculty of Science and the University Industry Liaison Office. It is supported by the Faculty of Arts and all the student entrepreneurship clubs on campus.
Anchoring this initiative is a $10 million venture fund: the “entrepreneurship@UBC Fund”. Capitalized by generous donations from alumni and matching contributions from the BC Innovation Council, the Fund has been formed by UBC in order to make very early stage pre-seed investments in start-ups founded by students or recent alumni.
Money alone does not assure a new venture’s success. Through its very strong alumni network and its relationships with the business communities in Vancouver and the Okanagan, entrepreneurship@UBC is providing student entrepreneurs with mentorship, course work and unique opportunities for relationship building and learning.
entrepreneurship@UBC is governed by a council of Deans and the UILO and the Fund is governed by an Advisory Board comprised of some of Vancouver’s most successful entrepreneurs including Greg Peet, Paul Lee and Peter van der Gracht. Making investment decisions is an Investment Board chaired by Haig Farris, a very well known and accomplished angel investor.
