Vanderbilt has launched the Vanderbilt Venture Partners program
It is designed to provide greater and more meaningful interactions between entrepreneurs, their start-up companies, and qualified seed and Series A investors.
The Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC) at Vanderbilt University has launched the Vanderbilt Venture Partners (VVP) program, an initiative aimed at building stronger bridges with the early-stage venture capital community. It is designed to provide greater and more meaningful interactions between faculty and staff entrepreneurs, their start-up companies, and qualified seed and Series A investors looking for the latest tech-enabled market opportunities.
The VVP program responds to the significant growth of Vanderbilt’s entrepreneurship-centric commercialization efforts, with 29 technology-based startups formed in the past three years, including a record 16 in FY25 alone, and more than 50 developing projects in CTTC’s pre-company-launch pipeline.
“This program is a great example of a concept evolving over time, ultimately simplifying the pathway investors must navigate to invest in Vanderbilt innovations,” said Alan Bentley, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Technology Transfer & Intellectual Property Development. “The original intent was to develop deeper relationships with the venture community by engaging at multiple levels – delivering key opinion leaders to help with diligence, placing students in internship positions, having investors serve on Vanderbilt committees, and the like. As we spoke to our target venture firms, the concept of carefully curated and customized data rooms for each firm took shape. We now have venture capital firms efficiently evaluating Vanderbilt start-up investment opportunities in markets and at stages that they have identified as of high investment interest to them.”
The VVP program is synergistic with other CTTC offerings to enhance entrepreneurship and investor access for Vanderbilt’s new ventures, including the Southeast Venture Showcase, Entrepreneur-in-Residence program, SpaceEdge Accelerator, and the Entrepreneurship Advisory Council.
For more information about the program, potential venture partners, and researchers interested in bringing their innovations to market are encouraged to contact Cam Crain, Venture Acceleration Manager.
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