Whether you are looking to network with startups or connect with other innovators on campus, this university-wide directory is an ever-growing collection of resources for University of Oregon faculty members interested in networking, innovation, and/or startups in the Eugene-Springfield area.
Sections
Funding and Fellowships
Cascadia Cleantech Accelerator
Cascadia CleanTech Accelerator is a business accelerator program powered by the CleanTech Alliance and VertueLab (formerly Oregon BEST). The 15-week program delivers mentorship, curriculum, connections and funding opportunities designed specifically for early-stage cleantech startups.
Cleantech Challenge
The Cleantech Challenge is an innovation competition for campus cleantech innovators and entrepreneurs across the state. Undergraduates, graduates, postdocs and faculty from Oregon colleges and community colleges are invited to compete for $50,000 in grants and prizes.
ONAMI
The Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute is where academia, business and government come together to accelerate research and bring breakthrough ideas to market. ONAMI provides entrepreneurs with access to early-stage funding and mentoring by industry experts.
Oregon Venture Fund
The Oregon Venture Fund is a venture capital fund that brings together an extraordinary group of business and technology leaders for the benefit of local entrepreneurs. Each year, OVF invests $100M in 100 local startups that create 10,000 jobs in Oregon.
SBA InnovateHER Challenge
The InnovateHER Challenge is a national prize competition aimed at unearthing products and services that impact and empower the lives of women and families. InnovateHER begins with local business competitions that culminate in a live pitch Final Round on the national stage.
University Venture Development Fund
The University Venture Development Fund provides Oregon universities the opportunity to accept gifts from individuals and organizations that wish to support research and commercialization activities at the universities.
VertueLab
VertueLab partners with funders and innovators in clean technologies to make a global environmental impact. Through a series of focused programs and funding opportunities, we advance promising technologies to market while helping innovators find the resources they need to move their vision forward.
Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education
The Tom and Carol Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education was established to provide financial support for initiatives that enhance the quality of the educational experience for undergraduate students at the University of Oregon.
Incubators and Accelerators
Fertilab Thinkubator
FertiLab Thinkubator provides business incubation space alongside membership and educational programming.
Huerto de la Familia
Huerto de la Familia assists Latinos to launch or expand good farm and food business ideas with trainings, connections to community resources, and developing a culture of entrepreneurship. The program will consist of two major modules: training and business counseling.
ID8 Pre-Accelerator Program
ID8 is a five-week pre-accelerator for startups. ID8 helps new companies get into top accelerators and attract seed funding opportunities.
OTRADI Bioscience Incubator
The OTRADI Bioscience Incubator is Oregon’s first and only bioscience-specific accelerator. The OBI provides scientists and young companies with the resources and expertise needed to take their research from the lab to the market.
RAIN Eugene Accelerator
The RAIN accelerator is a sixteen-week program that focuses on developing the three most important components of a successful company: the people, the product and the plan.
Institutes and Centers
Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry
CSMC conducts curiosity-driven and use-inspired research to enhance the sustainable chemistry toolbox with new methods and new techniques that will advance the scientific enterprise and transform the next generation of products, while preparing students to become the next generation of green chemists.
Center on Teaching and Learning
CTL uses scientific evidence and research-based practices to advance teaching and student learning. Its content and instructional design experts have developed a suite of evidence-based literacy, math, and early science interventions with a special focus on grades K-3 and struggling learners.
Innovate Collaborate Oregon
ICO allows Oregon universities to collaborate with entrepreneurs, companies and the business community to ensure that ideas generated by faculty, students and staff reach the private sector to create products and services to benefit the global community.
Institute of Molecular Biology
IMB is a thriving research institute that is a highly collaborative, integrated group where physicists, chemists and biologists who work together to dissect the molecular underpinnings of living organisms.
Materials Science Institute
The purpose of the Materials Science Institute is to study the structure and properties of materials, to educate in the sciences of materials, and to serve Oregon as a resource in these sciences.
Prevention Science Institute
The Prevention Science Institute works to improve the lives and well-being of at-risk children, individuals, and families especially by focusing on translational neuroscience, prevention and intervention, and implementation science.
Tyler Invention Greenhouse
The Tyler Invention Greenhouse focuses on green, or sustainable, chemistry and the creation of environmentally sensitive goods and services.
Legal Assistance
Business Law Clinic
The Business Law Clinic provides free legal services to Oregon business owners–clients pay only filing fees and out-of-pocket costs.
Mentors and Counseling
FertiLab Thinkubator Clinic
The Clinic offers 20-minute, fast-paced, focused, private 1-on-1 mentoring sessions that culminate in the mentor panel of startup experts providing a list of next steps (prescribed suggestions ranked in order of importance) for representatives of new ventures.
Lane Small Business Development Center
The Small Business Development Center is your support team for your business, offering a wide range of services and training for owners and employees.
ONAMI
The Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute is where academia, business and government come together to accelerate research and bring breakthrough ideas to market. ONAMI entrepreneurs-in-residence are available to provide advice to early-stage startups.
OTRADI
The Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute translates scientific research developed in the state of Oregon’s research laboratories into commercial ventures, especially those related to medical discoveries.
VertueLab
VertueLab partners with funders and innovators in clean technologies to make a global environmental impact. Through a series of focused programs and funding opportunities, we advance promising technologies to market while helping innovators find the resources they need to move their vision forward.
Networking
#EugeneTech Tuesdays at The Barn Light
A CodeChops-organized weekly networking event bringing the Eugene Tech Community together.
Women in Business
WIB organizes various panels, skill-building workshops, professional speakers, site visits and social events geared toward women in business.
Space
CodeChops
CodeChops is a co-working space in downtown Eugene that also facilitates meetups and events for local entrepreneurs and those with interest in coding.
Eugene Mindworks
Eugene Mindworks is a co-working space and business incubator.
Eugene Saturday Market
Saturday Market is a Eugene institution that provides a venue for local entrepreneurs to showcase their handcrafted or homegrown, locally sourced or produced goods.
Riverfront Research Park
University of Oregon operates the Riverfront Innovation Center to assist startups and spin-offs by providing research and lab space for emerging technology-based companies to develop their ideas and technologies.
Speakers
Technology and the Arts Downtown talks
TAD Talks are a new event series that examine how technology and the arts encourage economic development and community engagement in the downtown Eugene area.
Workshops and Conferences
Startup Weekend
Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event designed to provide superior experiential education for technical and non-technical entrepreneurs. Participants create working startups during the event and are able to collaborate with like-minded individuals outside of their daily networks.