Ben-Gurion University Launches $1M Student-Led Venture Capital Fund

May 24, 2018 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has launched a$1 million BGU Entrepreneurship Fund (BEF) to invest in technologies developed by BGU students and graduates, BGU President Rivka Carmi announced at the SilicoNegevBGU entrepreneurship festival on Wednesday. Students will be invited to join a course to learn how to identify innovative and disruptive technologies with a chance to join the fund’s investment team alongside industry leaders and BGU management, once they have successfully finished the course. These students will also become on-campus scouts for innovative technologies. BGU says this is the first student-led entrepreneurship fund created by an Israeli university. Tel Aviv University has also established TAU Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund to invest in early-stage startups founded by students and alumni in the TAU network.