What We Do
We teach, incubate, and support student entrepreneurship at FIU through a rich and diverse set of offerings to serve all stages of student exploration and growth.
Student entrepreneurship focuses on exposing students to the entrepreneurship skills, tools, and mental frameworks required both to adapt and thrive in a fast-changing global landscape while also empowering them to solve the world’s most complex and pressing challenges.
At StartUP FIU, we’ve seen the possibilities our students create when connected to the best ideas, opportunities, experiences, and to each other. We’re driven to support and accelerate these ends through our project- and skills-based Venture Programs and our vibrant Learning Community.
Venture Programs
Our Venture Programs come in many forms, from one-day workshops and basic skill-building to semester-long studios, pitch competitions, and startup support. They all practice a model of learn-by-doing, the most powerful approach we’ve found for preparing students to plan, launch, and scale successful ventures.
Much more than creating for-profit businesses or beautiful pitch decks, students who dive deep in our programs develop into the leaders, teammates, and creative problem solvers with the skills and resourcefulness to face head-on and harness the energies of our disruptive age.
Learning Community
Better solutions, and breakthrough innovations, require better thinking. At StartUP FIU, we know this comes from an interdisciplinary approach, experimental courage, and an insatiably curious mindset.
We’re surrounded by students committed to this approach every day, and they’ve formed a vibrant Learning Community that’s constantly evolving and welcoming new students from all majors. A community whose members include individuals from all walks of life and varieties of interest brought together by their shared love and commitment to life-long learning and self-discovery.
To support and accelerate their growth, we provide resources, activities, connections, and a creative workspace.
If you are a student seeking to sharpen and stretch your thinking, please join us anytime at the StartUP FIU Innovation Hub or at one of our upcoming events!