Blackstone LaunchPad
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LockIn session in the LaunchPad on Jan. 17, 2025. Photo by Lars Jendruschewitz.
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The Blackstone LaunchPad is Syracuse University’s innovation hub, connecting the campus resource-rich ecosystem with a global network that provides support for and builds communities of aspiring entrepreneurs, inventors and creators. The program serves faculty, staff, students and recent alumni across all disciplines who are interested in entrepreneurship, venture creation and innovation careers.
The LaunchPad supports a key pillar of Syracuse University’s academic strategic plan to give students experiential opportunities that help prepare them to be trailblazers in an entrepreneurial world.
The LaunchPad received seed funding from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation as part of a global network of 60+ universities around the world.
Located on the main floor of Bird Library, its flex space can be used for ideation workshops, team and mentor meetings, co-working, networking events, coaching and training sessions, demonstrations, pop-up shops and product launches, as well as other collaborative activities.
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IMPACT as of Dec. 31, 2024:
- 7,000+ Entrepreneurs Served
- 2,300+ Venture Ideas
- $164M+ External Investments
- 139 Countries Represented
- 215+ Ventures Incorporated
- 60+ Provisional Patents, 13+ Nonprovisional Patents, 6+ Patents Granted
We are committed to diversity and inclusion; 48% of LaunchPad participants identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color and 50% of LaunchPad founders identify as female.