Student Startup Center

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Entrepreneurship

The Student Startup Center is here to support you as you develop your skills, knowledge, and ventures. Build a founding team; compete with other UC Davis student entrepreneurs; and learn from industry experts.

Certificate of Entrepreneurship

Earn the Certificate of Entrepreneurship to jumpstart your career.

Events

Learn from founders, investors, business and technology experts, and peers in our events and podcasts.

PLASMA

Develop your skillset, network, and venture as a PLASMA participant.

Curriculum & Courses

Earn academic credit exploring entrepreneurship.

Testimonials

“Being a student entrepreneur feels liberating. There’s no better time to become an entrepreneur.”

Kim Quach ’20Computer Science, Founder, FreeBites

“It’s what brings me the most joy: making something of my own and having other people believing in it so much that they incorporate it into their life.”

Jorge Arthur ‘21Managerial Economics, Mingo

“Sometimes it’s hard to start something because it looks so big. Just start. Even if it’s sketching your ideas out. Or writing it out. You have to start at some point, somewhere. I think maybe a lot of people don’t start because they’re afraid to fail. You’re probably going to fail. A bunch of times. You have to go with it.”

Elisa Morillo ’20Design, International Relations, Founder, BioBandage

“If you don’t take action, you’re always going to regret it. Don’t think of yourself today; think of yourself 10 years from now. You’re always going to regret what you didn’t do. If you don’t do it, you’ll always wonder ‘What if?’ If you do it and it doesn’t work out, at least you will know that you went all in.”

Kamiab Ayani ‘19Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior & Computer Science, CliQ