Start or Grow a New Venture
Got an idea for a new product, nonprofit, or other venture? Or would you like to work with a team on developing their venture? Are you a faculty member wanting to have direct, real-world impact beyond the academy?
- Get the resources and and support you need to start a new venture through our eLab Accelerator and eLab Incubator programs
- Search Princeton startups
- Translate your faculty research into real-world impact in the Design for Impact Program
- Pitch your idea for a chance to win prize money
- Take entrepreneurship courses
- Get venture capital funding and advice (at Princeton Student Ventures)
Tackle a Societal Challenge
Looking to make a difference on campus, in your community, or globally?
- Collaborate with students, partners, and advisers, to address complex challenges through design
- Join the summer Tiger Challenge, an intensive program focused on framing problems and prototyping interventions
- Take the year-long Tiger Challenge course for sustained, hands-on project work
- Apply for funding for a project to address a societal need
- Take design courses for societal impact
Competitions
Present your research or business idea to an audience of angel investors, venture capitalists, students, faculty, staff, and members of the Princeton area entrepreneurial community at our annual Innovation Forum and win up to $15,000 in prize money.
Student Project Funding
We’re looking for your original ideas! Apply for funding to support an engineering project, internship, or other innovative group project outside of the classroom.
Mentorship & Advising
The Keller Center is Princeton’s hub for entrepreneurial activity, and we offer an extensive network of alumni and professionals who would love to support student projects and goals.
- Get mentorship for a new venture as part of the eLab program
- Reach out to Keller Center faculty to start an informal mentoring relationship
- Get mentorship by experienced entrepreneurs including Princeton alumni (at Princeton Student Ventures)
- Become a mentor (for community members and alumni)
Creative & Collaborative Spaces
- Do you think of yourself as a creator, a designer, or an innovator?
- Are you bursting with ideas, but need a place to allow them to grow?
Come explore innovation, design, and creativity in the Keller Center Makerspace.
The creative classrooms in the Von Neumann wing of the Engineering School serve as design and Community Project Studio classrooms as well as enrolled student studio space. Email us with questions about the space.
Academic & Staff Positions
- We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Operations Coordinator to provide essential support for our administrative and programmatic functions. This position plays a key role in ensuring the smooth execution of daily operations, events, and communications activities. The Coordinator will interact regularly with students, faculty, staff, and campus partners, serving as a welcoming and knowledgeable point of contact for inquiries related to our programming.
- We are hiring a post-doctoral research associate interested in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Research and Design. The researcher will work with Keller Director Sigrid Adriaenssens and her team of designers and social scientists in her Form Finding Lab.
- We regularly seek graduate students to join our team as Assistant Instructors to support our courses. This is a great opportunity to accrue vital teaching experience in an innovative and interdisciplinary field and also get a competitive stipend and paid tuition. Email Victoria Dorman with questions or to express interest.
- The James Wei Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship is a key element of Princeton's broadening scope of design and entrepreneurship education. Each year, our James Wei visiting professors offer novel courses and bring fresh perspectives to their work in and out of the classroom. Be notified when the application period opens again.