Advancing Academic Innovation
From Research to Venture: Your launch starts here! The CRI, Northeastern’s technology transfer office, empowers faculty innovators to launch high-impact ventures by delivering the strategic guidance, funding pathways, and commercialization resources essential to building successful science and tech-based startups.
Venture Support Programs
The CRI’s Venture Support Program keeps a pulse on new companies launching out of labs with Northeastern University Intellectual Property. Through Venture Support Programs, the CRI tracks new companies’ needs as well as progress against business build milestones and recommends relevant entrepreneurial resources based on venture stage. Venture Support Programs enable access to CRI-specific supplemental startup support services for Faculty founders.
BUILD SPACE SUPPORT
By collaborating with external ecosystem partners, such as Portal Innovations, the CRI offers subsidized build space to support promising teams and technology emerging from Northeastern labs.
CRI TRAINING COURSE
Learn at your own pace how CRI supports university research into real-world innovations through our training series.
DESIGN CONSULTANCY
Subsidized support is available for promising Spinout companies to work with designers on creating their website, pitch decks, and other marketing materials.
ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM
Develop your entrepreneurial mindset through hands-on learning that prepares you to innovate.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONSULTANTS
Entrepreneurship Consultants (EC) program provide business development guidance and counsel to Northeastern spinout companies from concept to commercialization.
EVENT ATTENDANCE
The CRI subsidizes attendance fees for Spinout founders, enabling them to attend key industry events, pitch their ventures, and connect with potential partners and collaborators.
GRANT WRITING SUPPORT
The Grant Writing Support program is designed to fuel the growth of spinout teams ready to embark on their venture journey.
PITCH PREPARATION
The CRI assists Spinout companies with pitch preparation through practice sessions and mock pitch events. In addition, the CRI offers subsidized access to tools like Scroobious, a pitch development platform.
SPINOUT CO-OP SUPPORT
CRI’s Venture team places co-op students with spinout companies, providing emerging entrepreneurs with full-time professional support while giving students immersive experience launching research-based startups.
NOBLEREACH
CRI partners with NobleReach’s Science to Venture™ initiative to accelerate commercialization of federally funded research with entrepreneurial coaching for public good and national security.
VENTURE CAPITAL OFFICE HOURS
The CRI offers meeting preparation and training for promising Spinout teams to effectively present to VCs, such as Osage University Partners, during recurring office hour sessions.
VENTURIUM
Venturium is TTVC’s flagship initiative created and led by Northeastern’s CRI Venture team, connecting university spinouts with venture capital through curated presentations and collaborative programming that provides investors a collective entry point to ecosystem-ready startups across AI, cleantech, deeptech, and life sciences.
Resource Center
The CRI’s Venture Support Program monitors new companies launching from Northeastern University labs with university intellectual property. Early-stage startups require significant resources to build their businesses. The CRI encourages founders to leverage entrepreneurial resources available at Northeastern and beyond, while also supporting supplemental programs designed to bring concepts closer to commercialization readiness.
Available Tech
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CRI Training
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
I-Corps
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Spinout Company Directory
Join CRI’s venture community.
To join our Venture Community, Faculty founders must demonstrate a desire to spinout by submitting an invention disclosure describing the technology driving new company creation and preliminary company materials outlining technology readiness level, commercial readiness level, and go to market strategy.
Interested in joining the Venture Community?
ELIGIBILITY
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1. Qualified Spinout
- Have completed CRI’s Training Course
- Be incorporated or formed an LLC
- Have licensed or optioned IP from Northeastern
- Submit company materials prepared to outline commercial readiness/business plan/go-to-market strategy
2. Stage of Spinout
- Business lead—Spinout must have a business lead or PI must be ready to engage as business lead
- Commercial readiness—technology or suite of technologies must be ready, or almost ready, for corporate or professional capital engagement
- Technology Readiness Level (TRL) must be between 3 and 5, ready to be brought to market with proper backing through a corporate partnership or professional capital
- Launch readiness—company must have space secured, or almost secured, outside of lab at Northeastern
3. Mentorship Networks
- Company / founder / co-founders must have leveraged internal / external mentorship networks (VMN, HSE, etc.) prior to applying for venture support
- If PI is engaging as business lead, PI must have at least one external, experienced entrepreneurial business advisor actively engaged in guiding the team on commercialization and business build
4. Funding
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Company must have secured commercialization-oriented internal and/or external funding to date (i.e. CRI’s Spark Fund, IDEA’s Gap Fund, America’s Seed Fund-SBIR/STTR, NSF PFI, professional capital etc.)
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- Funding may be non-dilutive or dilutive
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5. Commercialization Goals
- Company must have a clear plan for major milestones in next 6-9 months
Interested In Becoming An Entrepreneurship Consultant?
Entrepreneurship Consultants (EC) program provide business development guidance and councel to Northeastern spinout companies from concept to commercialization
Interested in learning more?
Katie Hemphill
Director of Technology Ventures and Talent Network
Interested in learning more?
Katie Hemphill
Director of Technology Ventures and Talent Network