IDE 412 Launchpad Senior Experience II: Fundraising, Investing, and Pitching

This course is intended for students in the Launchpad program who have either formed a company or are in the process of forming a company and have completed other Launchpad courses. The focus of this course is to help student-led companies establish sales & prepare for fundraising. Specifically, it helps student founders prepare to present before accelerators, incubators, angel investors and/or pre-seed VCs. Students may use their Launchpad initiative as a senior design project. This course will support this project work by transforming their technical designs into innovations. To understand the challenges of innovation processes, students will develop and present a business pitch and compete at a pitch competition. IDE 411/412 is synchronized with senior design curricula of the different disciplines in SES.

Credits

1

Prerequisite

IDE 411

Corequisite

BME 424 or CE 424 or CHE 424 or CPE 424 or CS 424 or CS 426 or EE 424 or EM 424 or EN 424 or ISE 424 or ME 424 or NE 424 or PEP 424 or SSW 424

Distribution

School of Engineering and Science

Typically Offered Periods

Spring Semester