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Blackstone LaunchPad @ UC Davis

What is Blackstone LaunchPad @ UC Davis?

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"Be ready to be challenged, rethink your expectations and listen to the great people around you while you enjoy this ride called entrepreneurship."
—Raiza Pilatowsky Gruner | Geography Ph.D. | Co-founder, Planeteando

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LaunchPad Fellowship >> insight, growth

"We have learned to embrace what we do not know."—Team BioBandage

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Student Resources

Use campus code "UCD2021" to access Blackstone LaunchPad resources.

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Your Entrepreneurial Toolkit

Learn to move your business idea forward in innovation workshops presented by business and investment leaders.

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Think. Do. Discover. | An Unexpected Path to Purpose
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Start with an idea, end with a business

The Big Bang! Business Competition provides a forum for innovators across California to collaborate, develop and test business ideas.

Innovate
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Big Bang! Launch

Join us as we launch the 22nd annual UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition.

RSVP | 11.15.21
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'Moore' Face Time with the Chancellor

Mahiri Moore Jr., a sophomore who founded Moore Truth More Change to engage Black and Latinx youths, talks with Chancellor May in a recent episode of Face to Face.

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