The UCLA Entrepreneurship Council has launched the website that has been a year in the making.
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has launched Bruincubate, its entrepreneur support network, which took about a year to develop. The project was managed by the university’s Entrepreneurship Council, which consists of 14 entrepreneurship organisations and was founded in 2013.
Bruincubate will serve as an information website aimed at providing students, faculty and the city’s community with better access to entrepreneurship resources and services at UCLA. The website lists entrepreneurship-related courses and workshops available at the university and compiles information about the different UCLA entrepreneurship organizations and their events into one calendar.
The council’s wider aim is to tackle the highly disorganised entrepreneurship efforts, which has caused overlaps between events held by the different entrepreneurship organisations. It is made up of organisations such as the Technical Entrepreneurial Community and Startup UCLA, as well as the university’s technology transfer office, the Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research. It also includes Bruin Entrepreneurs, the university’s incubator, and the UCLA Venture Capital Fund.
On top of Bruincubate, the council is currently working with the university’s alumni association in order to create a mentorship programme for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Brian Shedd, a UCLA alumnus and technology transfer licensing officer, said: “We wanted to create a communication platform where entrepreneurship organizations can share resources and information to further promote entrepreneurship on campus.”
