The Penn I-Corps program helps Penn faculty, staff, post-docs, and students test and validate startup ideas through customer discovery workshops offered in Fall and Spring. It teaches skills in customer engagement and partnership building. Qualifying teams are recommended for the National I-Corps Program, which provides $50,000 to support customer discovery efforts.
Eligible applicants are teams of two or more members affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, including faculty, students, post-docs, and recent alumni. The technology must relate to fundamental discoveries in science and engineering, with intellectual property developed at Penn.
