MEC—MIT Entrepreneurship Club

🚀 StartHouse 2025: Building Startups & Connections in Cambridge! 🚀 While our 9 exceptional teams in the StartHouse 2025 Cohort had a productive week in San Francisco, they also had an equally exciting experience right here in Cambridge—connecting with top industry experts and gaining valuable insights. We dove deep into key topics like sales & pitching, fundraising & legal strategies, cap table management, and product development. Our teams also had office hours with XFund and even took on the challenge of an actual Elevator Pitch with incredible investors. A huge thank you to all the mentors and investors who shared their insights and experience with us: 🔹 Stuart Paap (DNATE) 🔹 Robert Hughes III (Citizens) 🔹 Robert Harrington (SBXi) 🔹 Derek Bugley (Forum Ventures) 🔹 Frazer Anderson (Vestigo Ventures) 🔹 Tuan Ho (Xfund) 🔹 Kush Bavaria and Kelton (KJ) Hardrict Jr (Link Ventures) 🔹 Erik Fogg (Futures Forge) 🔹 David Horne (Gunderson Dettmer) 🔹 Christian Williams (J.P. Morgan) 🔹 Eduardo Canet (J.P. Morgan) Now, the excitement is building for Demo Day—where our teams will pitch their startups and showcase their progress. Come see the next generation of MIT entrepreneurs in action! Register and learn more here: https://lu.ma/uocjyz19. Stay tuned for more updates—Demo Day is almost here! 🚀 #StartHouse2025 #MITStartups #Entrepreneurship #DemoDay

🚀 StartHouse 2025 Cohort’s Bay Area Trip Was a Blast! 🚀 Last week, 22 exceptional founders from our MEC StartHouse 2025 Cohort embarked on an unforgettable networking trip to San Francisco, immersing themselves in the heart of the startup ecosystem. Our goal? To connect them with top investors, seasoned founders, and leading venture firms—all while they continued to build and refine their startups. We had the incredible opportunity to meet and learn from industry leaders, including: 🔹 Brandon Farwell (Xfund) 🔹 Avichal Garg (Electric Capital) 🔹 Eric Zhou (Andreessen Horowitz) 🔹 Shaheer Sandhu and Courtney Buie Lipkin (Susa Ventures) 🔹 David Hornik (Lobby Capital) 🔹 Sarah Tavel (Benchmark ) 🔹 Jacob Andreou (Greylock) 🔹 Anna Piñol (NFX) 🔹 Aryan Raigangar (Soma Capital) 🔹 Danh Trang, Arian Agrawal, Yaser Alkayale, and Eli Bressert (South Park Commons) 🔹 Chris Butcher (Pay.so) 🔹 Jannik Schilling (Founders Fund) 🔹 Ali Partovi, Vincent Po, Emily Cohen (Neo) 🔹 Cory Levy (Z Fellows) A huge thank you to all the investors and founders who took the time to share their insights, experiences, and advice with our teams. Your support helps shape the next generation of MIT entrepreneurs! 🔜 Now, as we enter the final week of StartHouse, our founders are gearing up for Demo Day—the culmination of 10 weeks of intense work. 📅 StartHouse 2025 Demo Day 📍 MIT Campus 🕖 February 7 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM This is your chance to see the next wave of MIT-born startups pitch their ideas and showcase their progress. Don’t miss out! Register and learn more about the teams here:https://lu.ma/uocjyz19 Stay tuned for more updates—we can’t wait to share what’s next! 🚀 #StartHouse2025 #Entrepreneurship #MITStartups #DemoDay

MEC StartHouse cohort III is up and running 📈. StartHouse is our 10-week accelerator program where 20 MIT student founders bring their startup ideas to life. Over the past two years, our StartHouse alumni have raised from top tier VCs, multiple have been selected as Thiel Fellows and Neo scholars, accepted into top accelerators like YC and PearX, and much more. This year, we’re thrilled to launch our third cohort! Over the first 6 weeks, we had workshops with Shalen De Silva, Robin Chase, Dan Sirk, and Joshua S. Miller, J.D., CFP®, AEP®, TEP A huge thank you to these inspiring speakers for their guidance and expertise! This Monday, we entered the program's most exciting phase: our IAP sprint. The next 4 weeks teams will be using MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) to work full-time on their startups. One of these weeks will be spent out in the Bay Area to connect with founders, investors, and accelerators. If you are interested in connecting with us while we are there (or here in Boston), comment and let us know. None of this would be possible without the support of our sponsor — thanks to Christian Williams and J.P. Morgan for helping us make this program big and better! Stay tuned for updates from our incredible founders!

Earlier this month, the MEC Sprint brought together some of the brightest student founders from across campuses, and the energy was nothing short of electrifying! Over 36 hours, teams transformed raw ideas into fully developed solutions, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in such a short time. We were delighted to see so many people come together for a celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit! We had two tracks—our Main Track and Pre-Idea Track. Huge congratulations to our winning teams, Curiate and MechAI! 1st place in each track will move forward as finalists for Xfund’s Xperiment Stake and are set to pitch to Patrick S. Chung. Additionally, our 2nd and 3rd place teams will receive office hours with top industry mentors like Neo’s Ali Partovi, EWOR’s Daniel W. Dippold, or even a Z Fellows interview! Across the board, we saw incredible solutions tackling major challenges in healthcare, sustainability, and education. From AI-powered tools to revolutionize personalized learning, to tech making healthcare more accessible, every pitch was filled with passion and innovation. A huge thank you to Tuan Ho from XFund, Naysawn Naji, Shen Shen from MIT, the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Red Bull, and everyone who helped make this event possible. To all the participants—this is just the beginning. We can’t wait to see what you do next! #MECsprint #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #MITStartups #Curiate #MechAI #Hackathon #MIT

We're thrilled to announce the Sprint, a startup hackathon providing ambitious and skilled students with resources and connections for 36 hours of innovation, taking place October 4-6, 2024. In addition to traditional prizes, winners will also receive expedited processing for select VCs and accelerators! Open to all undergraduate founding teams, whether you’re just starting on an idea or are already in the thick of it! Learn more and apply here: mec.mit.edu/mec-sprint. #Entrepreneurship #Startup #Innovation #MIT #Mentorship #VentureCapital

We're launching Startup Interface 2024-2025 for startups! Startup Interface gives you direct access to a talented pool of driven, entrepreneurial MIT students. Looking to hire for part-time, summer/winter internships, or full-time roles? Visit our website to learn more.

Startup Interface is in full swing! We match talented students with opportunities (internships, part-time, & full-time) at innovative startups. If you're currently looking to hire as a growing start-up, reach out to us at mec-startup@mit.edu. For more information about Startup Interface, visit our website at https://lnkd.in/eBBNhytR.

The Spring first quarter wrap up! It’s been a good and eventful first half of the semester. We brought in 30+ new members who are currently building their startups or eager to start something soon, had our first MEC StartHouse Demo Day (https://lnkd.in/dDkxqcRh), held multiple office hours for our founders with Xfund , Naysawn Naji , and Vesey Ventures , talked with Kirin Sinha had workshops from our current student founders, co-hosted Startup Time Machine Conference with Eliam Medina & Telora, and a lot more including events from photos: •⁠ MEC x Sloan Eship Club mixer • Ideation Workshop •⁠ Dinner with Xfund •⁠ weekly Work Nights •⁠ Late Night with Exa (prev. Metaphor) We have a lot more planned for the next couple of weeks, so follow us on LinkedIn and visit our website. (We’ll be posting very soon about some of the companies being started by our founders👀)

In case you missed it, earlier this semester we capped off our 2nd StartHouse cohort with our first Demo Day. We had pitches from companies in EdTech, AI, Space Tech, and Consumer Tech. They shared what they were building, their progress and traction, and plans for the future. It was amazing and inspiring to hear how much all of these companies achieved in a short amount of time! To stay up to date with these teams and other startups coming out of MEC, follow us on LinkedIn or go to our website: mec.mit.edu

Last Saturday MEC—MIT Entrepreneurship Club in partnership with Telora held the Startup Time Machine – the conference where students all over the country came to learn from experienced founders. Students were able to talk to amazing founders: Amjad Masad, Alex Bouaziz, Deepak Chhugani, Nick Damiano, Naysawn Naji, Will Cao, Leandra T., Matthew Rajcok, Matt Tengtrakool, and ethan thornton about starting the startup, defining the problem to solve, talking to customers, finding the right co-founder and the things they wish they knew in the beginning of their journey. Thanks to Eliam Medina, Angie Diaz Medina, Kris Borer, and the Telora team for helping organize this incredible event! Thanks to all the interviewers for their preparation and speakers for sharing their experience!