Venture Connection is the event at the center of the Penn State Venture & IP Conference. This event features investors hosting tables to meet with entrepreneurs that have been matched with them based on capital needs, industry and other key criteria. Sessions are broken into segments giving each investor the chance to meet with up to a dozen capital-seeking, well-screened entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs do not need to be Penn State affiliated, but must apply to participate in Venture Connection. These applications are then reviewed by our Selection Committee to ensure that Venture Connection will be a quality showcase of promising technology ventures.

Entrepreneurs will be given time to give an “elevator pitch” to the investors. Investors will then share more about what they look for in prospects, and discuss their respective funds and investment strategies. If there is a connection, private one-on-one meetings can be scheduled.

Penn State's Tech Tournament is a showcase of disruptive technologies and early stage companies born of Penn State's robust and diverse research enterprise.

The path brilliant ideas must travel from discovery to commercialization is often circuitous, with many challenges along the way.

The courageous innovators featured in this tournament will have begun their journey toward commercialization with a passion for moving their ideas into the marketplace to solve real world problems.

Join us at the Tech Tournament where you will find opportunities for leadership, commercialization partnership and support that will help these innovators along their path.