The faculty whose work is your unfair advantage.
You shouldn’t have to guess which professor to email. Tell a Foundry advisor what you’re building — we surface the UVA faculty whose research and teaching overlap your venture, each with the reason for the match.
Matches, not a directory.
Reach an advisor
A conversation, not a form. Tell it what you’re building, where you are, and the space you’re in — it reads the shape of your venture as you talk.
We map it across UVA
Your venture’s space is matched against what faculty actually research and the courses they teach — hundreds of profiles, reduced to the ones that overlap you.
You get a shortlist, not a database
A handful of faculty whose work is genuinely relevant — each with the reason it’s a fit. Surfaced inside the platform as you build, never a wall of search results.
From deep tech and biotech to climate, commerce, and public policy — the same tag graph that reads your venture reads the faculty. The searchable directory itself lives inside the platform for the Foundry team; founders get the match.