Have a marketable idea?
JHU supports student entrepreneurs.

JHU Engineering students are encouraged to dream big. And with the support of peers, faculty, mentors, alumni, and student-focused centers for idea and career development, students can see those dreams become reality.

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Successful Student Startups

A collage of two burritos side to each other, one with clear tastee tape and other with blue tastee tape.

Undergraduate Entrepreneurs - A standout project from 2022’s annual Engineering Design Day event was Tastee Tape, an edible adhesive that keeps your burrito wrapped tightly. Garnering attention from Newsweek, NBC, and Jimmy Fallon, the team of student entrepreneurs are in the process of patenting the technology.

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Graduate Entrepreneurs - With funding and mentorship provided through FastForward U, two female-led graduate STEM startup teams are bringing innovation to reproductive health. Ovubrush, founded by Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design graduate student Janis Iourovitski, is a high-tech toothbrush that provides discrete and easy fertility window tracking.

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Life After Launch - The New Norm, a startup focused on upcycling red plastic solo cups to create fabric, was launched by Lauren Choi ‘20 who received the 2020 Bisciotti Foundation Prize for Student Entrepreneurship. Choi has joined the Halcyon Incubator in Washington, D.C., a program for social entrepreneurship.

By the Numbers

  • 100+startups launched

    by JHU students every year

  • 1/2FFU’s venture teams

    come from the Whiting School of Engineering

  • A graphic design of one hand holding money and one hand with a yellow bulb

    $365k+in direct funds

    for JHU student entrepreneurs

  • 150alumni mentors

    in our entrepreneurial network

Timeline to entrepreneurship:

1) Student develops idea for a startup
2) Student contacts FFU for mentorship and funding opportunities
3) Student attends pitch events with alumni
4) Student competes and gets awarded with accelerator funding for their tech venture startup

JHTV supports student entrepreneurs Student startup stories

“Student entrepreneurship and innovation continues to grow exponentially at Johns Hopkins, thanks to our invested faculty and staff leaders across campus, and we look forward to our brilliant student ventures continuing to attract the attention they deserve. ”

Josh Ambrose, director of student ventures

Student entrepreneurs are supported in a variety of ways

Student Spotlights

Student Ventures

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