Innovation doesn’t scale by accident- it scales by design. Join VentureWell for an interactive session exploring how to move groundbreaking ideas from lab to market with intention and impact. We’ll share our perspective on venture development, rooted in our Venture Development Framework (VDF) and powered by customer discovery as a central driver of business model design.

Through multiple distinct models, we’ll examine what it really takes to nurture solutions that can deliver change at scale- from multi-year programming that fuels innovation pipelines, to collaborative challenge models like Moonshots for Development (M4D), to holistic approaches that go beyond TRLs in assessing early-stage ventures.

A Collaborative Dialogue
This is a conversation for thought leaders, funders, and innovators alike. Designed for co-creation, we’ll invite your input on how to design better partnerships, which technology areas most urgently advance rural development, and who needs to be part of this wider conversation. Whether you’re a funder, an operating partner, or an innovator, your insights will shape the next wave of collaborative innovation.

VentureWell supports the cultivation of science and technology inventors and the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems critical to their success. Since its founding in 1995, VentureWell has funded or trained over 19,000 early-stage science and technology inventors and innovators, resulting in the emergence of more than 5,800 ventures with groundbreaking technological advancements in fields like biomedicine and healthcare, sustainable energy and materials, and solutions for low-resource settings. The ventures it has supported have raised subsequent funds totaling more than $7.5 billion and are reaching millions of people globally.

 

Learn more at www.venturewell.org.