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We help you bring your ideas to life by delivering an equity crowd-funding platform, a rapid ideation framework, and a trusted alumni network of like-minded co-founders, advisors, and investors from world’s premier schools.
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Invest in high quality business plans created by the most promising entrepreneurs who are supported by the top entrepreneurship programs and world-class alumni advisers.
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"StartupWind encourages real time feedback from mentors and advisors achieving multiple cycles of learning in one academic quarter. The support for the tool has been outstanding. We look forward to new features.”
Mark Werwath
Co-Director of Farley center for entrepreneurship and innovation, Northwestern University
"We continue to use StartupWind as an ideation platform for 'Entrepreneurship in Action' and will now extend it to our online course 'Do Your Venture'. The feedback from the students is very positive – StartupWind enables frictionless creation and sharing of ideas with peers and expert mentors for their fast and high quality feedback. We are excited about the upcoming capabilities – Business Model & Lean Canvas and Equity Crowdfunding and get ready to secure seed funding for student ventures.”
Suresh Bhagavatula
Chairperson, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development, NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore
"Through StartupWind industry experts from top-notch schools mentored me with their rich feedback rooted in industry experience. StartupWind is now used in entrepreneurship coursework at Northwestern University. Students were amazed by the helpful feedback brainstorming. Highly customer centric StartupWind team is quick to respond to features requests.”
Vignesh Ramasamy
Sustainable Energy Enthusiast from Northwestern University
"Startupwind is a very valuable network for me to test my ideas, get my product vetted by industry veterans and to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs. I highly recommend StartupWind to any entrepreneur for the sheer amount of support it provides.”
Mihir Bhagat
Graduate Student at Northwestern University
"I am overwhelmed by the positive response so far and I think that StartupWind will be extremely valuable as an accountability network for me. StartupWind helps to keep me excited and persistent about my startup.”
Evan Corte
Co-founder PerfectTemp & Student Washington University St Louis
"Years of working with entrepreneurial students have taught me how important it is to have a well-designed platform where students can receive frequent and frank mentoring and feedback from multiple voices of experience.”
Christopher Riesbeck
Professor at Farley Center of Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University
"StartupWind enables entrepreneurs to tap into a rich network of resources- people who want to help and have a skill set to actually help”
Ido Sarig
General ManagerIntel/WindRiver
"StartupWind let me use the collective wisdom of well qualified peers which let me pivot quickly in right direction. Feedback from peers gives me motivation and keeps me going.”
Vish Bidange
Sr Product ManagerUSC Alumni
"As an MBA student, I think of StartupWind as a digital ecosystem of like-minded individuals - each of whom is capable of providing immediate tactical feedback on my business idea.”
Kevin Hareza
StudentKellog/Northwestern
"The Global Engagement Summit is an annual summit that brings young social entrepreneurs from all over the world to the Evanston campus to further develop their projects. This year and going forwards, summit attendees will join the Startup Wind platform to share their ideas and publish their progress. They will now have one place to stay connected as they continue their entrepreneurial endeavors.”
Nathaniel Ezolino
Leader, Global Engagement Summit for Social Entrepreneurs at Northwestern University
Growing number of Students, alumni, professors and accelerators from premier schools are using StartupWind.
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