Arizona FORGE
Finding Opportunities and Resources to Grow Entrepreneurs
• Inspire and cultivate entrepreneurial thinking (FORGE’d at UA)
• Advance the entrepreneurial ecosystem (FORGE at Roy Place)
• Drive scale-up/launch acceleration (FORGE Ahead)
Offerings
Programs & Services
Startups grow in FORGE accelerators with an individualized team of coaches, mentors, and industry experts. Students engage in hands-on learning and launch careers. Businesses expand by licensing and commercializing technology, running projects with students, and enriching their potential with an educated, experienced team passionate about developing disruptive technologies and bringing them to market.
Advanced Entrepreneur Program (AEP)
An 8-week Seed Accelerator where early stage startups refine their idea, with over 40 hours of rigorous business development programming, from customer discovery to learning how to run your own board meetings. The program runs 3 times per year, where up to 12 teams will be selected to participate from a competitive application process.
Services
Startup Business Incubator
Student Workspace
Digital Health Lab
Media Lab
Meeting and classroom space
Event and community workspace
Prerequisites or Exclusions
- Identified a specific and important problem
- Have a concept (product or service) for how to solve this problem
- Identified target customer and have conducted sufficient research to confirm there is a market for the product or service
- Understand the size of the market and target market share
- Have an outline of a revenue model
A startup does not need to be affiliated with the University of Arizona to apply.
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Primary Contact
Aleshia Howell
Additional Information