MENTORSHIP

We believe that the right mentor, at the right time, can have tremendous impact for a team translating a discovery from the lab to the market.

Our mentors are volunteers with strong industry, business, investment, or entrepreneurship experience who can support and encourage an innovator’s commercialization journey from initial customer discovery through formal investment pitches.

Mentors can connect with UW innovators through programmatic engagement in the NSF I-Corps Hub Northwest, the CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund, and the Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Program, as well as by providing ad hoc mentoring.

If you’d like to learn more about mentoring with CoMotion, please send a link to your LinkedIn profile and a bit about your interest to [email protected].

If you’re an innovator already working with CoMotion and are interested in connecting with a mentor, please reach out to your Innovation Manager to facilitate an introduction.

With operational support from CoMotion, the Entrepreneurial Faculty Forum members will mentor UW faculty with entrepreneurial aspirations, help demystify and smooth out the startup formation process, and foster connections inside and outside the university. The Forum is made of eight entrepreneurs whose spinoff sectors and licensing strategies are as diverse as the community of innovators we work with. They will mentor UW faculty seeking to translate discoveries and maximize impact.