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We build and invest in mission-driven companies. A new type of co-founder, and a more valuable investor.Build With Experts: Every venture is co-founded alongside serial entrepreneurs who have taken companies from 0 to IPO and raised $250M+, and a collective of world-class engineers, designers, and more. Double Your Success: Our performance coaches, startup building playbooks, investor network and capital help us strive to build ventures at twice the speed and half the risk. Stay Focused: Our team and startup building process enables founders to focus on building a great product while we help take care of fundraising, accounting, engineering, legal, and more. We believe that the best way to unlock this potential is to:Invest in world-class entrepreneurs. Help them reach their full human potential through extensive coaching and operational playbooks. Build and invest in companies that help millions of people reach for greater economic opportunity. Why Build With Us?Speed: Skip the 18 months of self-funding with pre-vetted ideas and an EIR stipend. Support: Launch your MVP with studio resources and support. Capital: We’ll invest $250-500K of seed funding. Reduced Risk: Double your success rate and cut your time in half with our ops playbooks, talent and advisory network, and executive coaching. Our ProcessIdeate: We generate and source hundreds of business ideas through our venture partner network, and select the few with potential to become $10B businesses that advance human potential. Explore: We work with entrepreneurs to explore high-potential businesses that fit their expertise; “getting out of the building” with customer development, interviews and prototypes. Validate: We provide entrepreneurs with a stipend to run an MVP to de-risk the business, build the product, acquire early customers, and prepare for launch. The entrepreneur stipend unlocks founding talent that couldn’t otherwise afford 18 months without a paycheck. Launch: We invest $250-500k in each venture, and setup the books, legal, and HR. Founders typically own >50% equity stake, depending on their founding team and investment amount – skipping straight to growing their business, without the early funding slog. Grow: We provide ongoing founder coaching, operational playbooks, recruiting and fundraising support to help founders grow their own skills as they grow their companies. What To Expect For 3-9 months, you’ll be working directly with our general partners, talent collective, and coaches to co-found a company. If we mutually find an idea we’re all excited about, we will invest up to $500k with the potential for substantially more when company milestones are met. Services Provided: Recruiting Fundraising Market Research Engineering Data-Science UI & UX Design Finance Company Formation Marketing Go-To-Market Operations Legal & HR Product Management Validation

The EFL program runs from October – May each year. Founders are not required to have a New York University affiliation and do not have to relocate to New York. The program is free for founders – no equity or fees are taken. Other program benefits include: Executive mentorship: Business leaders, serial entrepreneurs, and seasoned executives will help you craft your company’s vision through time-bound, performance-based goals. Access to leading VCs and Investors: Investment mentors will guide you in successfully raising capital, make connections with New York’s investment community, and may even invest in your startup. Guidance from leading scientists: Prominent scientists and researchers across a myriad of verticals will help you mold your technology development strategy. Business development: NYU Stern’s MBA students will support you in a variety of ways based on your specific business needs. EFL team guidance: The EFL’s expert team will keep you on track to accomplishing your goals by optimizing your access to mentors, MBA students, and other resources throughout the program. Corporate services: EFL’s corporate partners donate many hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of in-kind legal, financial, and technological services. Mentorship from business leaders and scientists Endless Frontier Labs’ mentors are business leaders, investors, and scientists drawn from New York’s thriving business and academic institutions and beyond. Our mentors commit substantial time to provide startups with the best advice and connections to maximize their chances of success. Our ValuesFounder Friendly: We are committed to provide programming in the long-term interests of entrepreneurs. We do not take equity or fees from startups. Each core aspect of the program is in the best interests of founders before, during, and after the program. Inclusivity: We are committed to building an inclusive, equitable, and just community now and for our future. We will provide an environment that is free of bias, prejudice, discrimination, and harassment. Performance Orientation: We are committed to (a) selecting founders with extraordinarily bold, new ideas, (b) providing intimate access to outstanding mentors, and (c) eliciting maximum effort from mentors and founders to accelerate the societal impact of breakthrough science.

As one of Australia’s leading research and teaching institutions, UQ is passionate about enriching its entrepreneurial ecosystem and creating leaders of the future. Through UQ Ventures, entrepreneurs are supported at every stage of their journey, working alongside staff and alumni, and connecting with a wide range of global experts. Our highly successful collaborations demonstrate that innovation is best achieved through teamwork, and that partnerships and increased stakeholder involvement can drive excellent outcomes that create change. Together, we can find solutions to compelling technical, social, economic and environmental challenges. Nothing excites us more than seeing our ideas create impact in the world. Fast facts300+ students participated in overseas Startup Adventures 30,000+ participants in entrepreneurial activities since 2018 $107m investment and grants attracted by Ventures startups 6,500+ students from 28 high schools have participated in Discovery activities 230+ startup companies benefited from ilab accelerator and incubator programs 100+ entrepreneurial coursework programs available across all faculties

The Notre Dame Pit Road Fund was launched in 2018 with the mission to serve early stage companies associated with the University. By investing in de-risked, promising technologies through the Engine Commercialization Process, the Fund injects capital into Notre Dame led and affiliated companies as they mature. In addition, the Fund connects founders to mentors, strategic partners, sophisticated investors and board members, leveraging their resources to build and scale the Fund’s portfolio companies. Philosophy & Investment Thesis Designed to unlock tremendous value both socially and economically, the Pit Road Fund aims to create the next great company by leveraging the discoveries of technical solutions made by the University and the Notre Dame ecosystem. Industry Agnostic Investing in Faculty Research, Student Founders, Staff, Alumni & the South Bend-Elkhart Regional Community Investing under Catholic Social Guidelines Pre-seed, Seed and Series A Investments

Many of IAG's innovations began as seed ideas in Firemark. We identified their potential, invested in their development and accelerated their growth. By building an incubation ecosystem across industry, venture capital, academia and government, we identify systems of opportunity to explore, evaluate and commercialise. Four cities Our cross-functional hubs in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Auckland, provide access to a breadth of talent and depth of experience to develop ideas that deliver business impact. Three functions Futures. Ventures. Labs. The ability of our different functional areas and skill sets to work (and play) together gives us a competitive advantage.

Mila Ventures is building the Venture Scientist platform: an integrated venture-creation engine designed to translate frontier AI research into world-class companies - rooted in Canada, built for the world. Mila Ventures operates within Mila, a prestigious AI research institute based in Montréal, founded by Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and a pioneer of deep learning. The platform brings together: Mila Venture Studio (co-creating companies with professors, students, and entrepreneurs) Mila Accelerator (early company building and scaling) Venture Scientist Academy (training researchers to become venture builders) The Mila Venture Fund (in formation) We operate at the intersection of AI research, venture creation, and capital, working closely with Mila's globally renowned researchers, students, founders, investors, corporate partners, and public institutions.