Hands-on Initiatives

Our startup accelerator is the IE Venture Lab , which helps teams create ready-to-launch startup projects. It’s open to all our students and alumni and offered as an elective within the International MBA program.

Created by students, for students, this club creates unique initiatives to promote entrepreneurship in the IE Community and beyond.

This initiative serves as a bridge, connecting talented individuals with promising startups, fostering collaboration and the growth of the entrepreneurial community at IE. In this platform, IE startups can post their available positions, while current IE Students can explore and find opportunities to gain valuable entrepreneurial experience.

Every Thursday at 7pm in Area 31, you can join in the fun to pitch, brainstorm, and network with potential investors in an informal setting. These sessions are open to students, entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone curious about startups and entrepreneurship.

IE Venture Days hosted in Madrid are full- or half-day conferences and start-up pitch competitions where you can meet and mingle with startups, investors, corporations, accelerators, and industry experts.

IE University's scaleup training program, led by experienced entrepreneurs, focuses on achieving exponential growth by optimizing sales strategies, raising capital, and developing a data-driven culture. Participants gain actionable insights into pricing, scalability, organizational structure, technology management, and leadership, preparing startups for sustainable success.

Supernovas Women2Invest, organized by the EIT Community and delivered by IE University, empowers women with STEAM backgrounds to launch careers in venture capital. The program covers startup fundamentals, the European VC market, business model analysis, due diligence, valuation, term sheets, negotiation skills, portfolio management, impact investing, and exit strategies, along with internship opportunities at VC funds, ensuring participants gain the skills and connections needed to succeed in the VC industry.

IE University designs and executes intrapreneurship programs that guide corporate teams in developing internal innovation projects, leveraging extensive expertise in entrepreneurship and innovation. Our programs cultivate an innovation culture, engaging participants to generate and implement valuable new ideas within their organizations

Bringing together startups, investors, corporations, accelerators, and industry experts, IE Venture Days are international events that support and nurture the entrepreneurial community by providing a platform for knowledge sharing, networking, and collaboration, fostering innovation and the growth of startups.

In partnership with IE Business School, Elle Magazine hosts an exciting competition that celebrates the ambitions of young entrepreneurs by seeking out the most inventive, imaginative, and feasible business projects, offering an attractive cash prize and an invaluable full scholarship for the Master in Management program at IE Business School to the winning entry. Bounce your ideas around and be mentored by pros in this innovation incubator.