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At Trinity, innovation happens beyond the classroom. Through competitions, mentorship, and hands on experiences, students turn ideas into action, collaborating across disciplines and engaging with the world around them.
Stumberg New Venture Competition
A three part, shark-tank-style experience, the Louis H. Stumberg New Venture Competition annually supports compelling student start ups and offers hands on access to experienced mentors. At stake? $50k to launch your concept!
Preliminary Round
Form a team, pitch your idea to judges for a chance at mentorship and funding. The preliminary round Prize is now $7,000.00 per team.
Incubator
Spend the summer completing a 10-week, paid program to further build your venture, hone your skills, and learn alongside mentors.
Final Round
Deliver your final pitch for a chance to win the grand prize! The Final Round Prize is now $50,000.00.
Learn from Real World Entrepreneurs
Trinity offers unparalleled opportunities to learn from the pros and make your budding business bloom. Experienced entrepreneurs and innovators from diverse backgrounds offer you one-on-one guidance, real-world networking, and invaluable insights.
Venture Mentoring Service
Connect directly with a team of mentors who provide personalized, objective,
unbiased, practical, and professional business advice and guidance. The
mentorship you receive will evolve as you and your venture do.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Inside and outside of the classroom, get your venture up and running through individualized coaching and feedback from the Entrepreneur in Residence.
On Campus Events
- Film screenings and keynote speakers
- Meet Your Co-Founder mixer - connect with local University students looking to build their team
- Venture Skill Development Workshops
- Trinity|Pearl|CIA Bootcamp
Off Campus Pitch Events
Once you've founded your venture and are ready for funding, the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship's faculty and staff will support you in preparing an application and travelling to compete at pitch competitions across the city, state, and country!
Off Campus Engagements Curated for Students
- Founders Off Script (dinner series - small group of students have dinner with a local founder).
- Internships with local startups through the Students + Startups program (created at TU!)
Trinity Incubator
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows program
Summer Undergraduate Research re-imagined: spend your summer in a 10-week Incubator program as you grow through pitch practice, hands-on-workshops and classes, ecosystem immersion, alumni engagements, cultural enrichments, and by giving back to other entrepreneurs, younger and older than yourself. Stay in San Antonio over the summer and get paid to build your business. Open to students from every major, rising sophomores, rising juniors, and rising seniors are eligible to apply.
The Makerspace
Collaboratively transform your ideas into actual, physical products at the Makerspace. Here, you'll enjoy access to expert faculty and staff support and guidance, safety and creation training, state-of-the-art manufacturing tools from heavy-duty laser cutters to 3D printers, and advanced design software — open to students of all majors.
Explore San Antonio as a Living Lab
San Antonio offers a unique, accessible, and dynamic ecosystem of startups, nonprofits, and industry leaders for you to connect with and learn from.
Students + Startups
S+S is an internship program; an amazing opportunity for students to get a meaningful role at a startup.
San Antonio Startup Week
Participate in events, activities, and networking during San Antonio Startup Week, a celebration of entrepreneurship in our city.
Tech Bloc
Connect with San Antonio's tech scene through the city's largest cash prize pitch competition, rallies, and events.
Launch SA
Launch SA, a partnership between the City of San Antonio and Geekdom, hosts tailored workshops for business owners, connect entrepreneurs to funding opportunities, provide educational resources, and assists in catapulting small businesses and entrepreneurs into success.
Geekdom
Geekdom isn't just for tech startups. It's for anyone who's serious about building something; a company, a product, a movement, or a life's work. If you've got the drive, there's a place for you here.
Port San Antonio
We are the Alamo City’s large and dynamic technology and innovation campus—a place that connects people to life-changing opportunities in their careers, in their education and as entrepreneurs.