Build Unicorns
The road to entrepreneurism is laced with pitfalls and failure. Through faculty research and the knowledge base of our alumni, we have developed the Vanderbilt Venture Framework™ to navigate your journey.
You are ready and whether you want to launch, join, or invest in startups, the Vanderbilt Owen Center for Entrepreneurism is your guide to building consequential companies.
20+ unicorns and growing
1 of 25 Decacorns in the US
In an analysis of over 1100 unicorns, Ilya Strebulaev of the Stanford Graduate School of Business's Venture Capital Initiative found that venture-backed Vanderbilt founders were twice as likely to build unicorn startups as those founders from other universities.
What makes the Vanderbilt founder so successful? We recruit high IQ / high EQ individuals who we lead through world-class engineering, human and organizational development, and business curricula which instill grit.

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