Summer Venture Program
The Summer Venture Program is a 10-week intensive experience designed to accelerate the development of student entrepreneurial ventures.
Planning to Apply in 2026?
For Babson College students interested in applying to the 2026 Summer Venture Program, we are excited to meet you and get to know your ventures.
Two Part Application
1. Customer Discovery Insights
- Attend a Customer Discovery Workshop
- Conduct five or more Customer Discovery calls
- Submit your insights by Friday, March 13 at 11 a.m. ET (morning)
2. Full Application
- Submit the full application by Friday, March 20 at 11 a.m. ET (morning)
Application Resources
- Read the FAQs
- Sign up for an info session
- Preview the full application
Important: Please attend a Customer Discovery Workshop at the Blank Center PRIOR to conducting your Customer Discovery calls and submitting your Customer Discovery Insights.
About the Summer Venture Program
The Summer Venture Program (SVP) is a 10-week intensive experience that builds entrepreneurial skills and accelerates the development of student ventures. Each year approximately 15 teams are chosen among the most promising graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurs from Babson College, F.W. Olin College of Engineering, and Wellesley College.
The teams gain intensive feedback from advisors and experts, participate in world-class programming including workshops, speaker panels, office hours, and founder talks, and receive resources including co-working space, housing, and meal plans. As teams work to build their businesses, they make invaluable connections to potential customers, partners, investors, and industry experts. At the culmination of the program, teams present at the Summer Venture Showcase to an audience drawn from the Babson community and the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Participants form lifelong bonds with their fellow entrepreneurs, and after the program, they join a powerful network of hundreds of SVP alumni that span over a decade.
The Leader
Since its inception in 2009, the Summer Venture Program has influenced the lives of over 430 student entrepreneurs. Notable past ventures include DARTdrones, DetraPel, Mighty Well, Think Board, and Virool. Babson is recognized nationally as the No. 1 leader in entrepreneurship by U.S. News & World Report, and the Summer Venture Program has been recognized regionally as the category winner for education 50 on Fire by BostInno. Embracing Entrepreneurial Thought and Action® (ET&A™) ourselves, the program has been finely honed over the course of 18 years, and today represents the best of entrepreneurship education.