You are the first person they tell.
Long before a student walks into the Foundry, they mention an idea after class. What you do in that moment matters more than anything we run. Here is what the Foundry can hand you — for teaching with it, for routing them to us, and for your own work.
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Turn a syllabus into a venture
BetaCourse Tools takes your syllabus and gives back project briefs, assessment rubrics, and student feedback loops wired into the Foundry — so a course can run live ventures without you building the scaffolding yourself.
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Judge the Entrepreneurship Cup
Fall · Oct 23–30Concept applications are read against four published criteria — insight, evidence, originality, and why you — and three human reviewers meet applicants in short review-room sessions, October 23–30. The rubric rewards insight over polish.
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Find faculty collaborators
The same matching that surfaces you to student founders works the other way: research and teaching overlap across every school, with the reason for each match rather than a directory to search.
See how matching works →
You do not need to know anything about startups.
The most useful thing a faculty member does is notice, and say so — “that sounds like something the Foundry would take seriously.” You do not have to assess the idea, know which program fits, or make an introduction. Send them to us and we will do the sorting. Membership is free and no student needs your sponsorship to join.
Teaching something we should be part of?
Courses, capstones, labs, competitions — if students are building something in your class, there is usually a way we can help. A person reads this inbox.
Email the team →