XFund & UCLA New Ventures Fall 2021 Pitch Day Submission Deadline

On Friday, October 22nd, 2021, XFund will be joining UCLA New Ventures to host a private Fall 2021 Pitch Day. XFund is looking for UCLA affiliated startups in the consumer, enterprise, and digital health sectors, seeking to raise a pre-seed to Series A round will be selected to pitch their business to XFund. Xfund is a pioneering partnership between some of the country’s most successful venture capital firms (NEA, Accel, and Breyer Capital) and some of the world’s best research universities in the United States and abroad. The firm is engineered to identify and support entrepreneurs coming out of the world’s best centers of learning. Submit your application here by Friday, October 8th, 2021. If you have any questions, feel [...]

VaxUp Challenge

The Innovation Studio at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is partnering with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on the VaxUp Challenge: a three-phase innovation challenge to generate, test and scale creative solutions that will increase COVID-19 vaccinations rates among children and teens in L.A. County, particularly in communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. There are three phases of the VaxUp Challenge. Organizations that are chosen in the first phase will advance to the next phase. Phase I:Idea- a-thon: Feb. 10 - 11, 2022, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. PT Applicants will participate in a two-day virtual event featuring expert speakers who will present on topics related to the challenges of increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates among children and [...]

Food Insecurity Design-a-Thon

Come put your unique ideas, perspective, and skills to the test to help us design a tech enabled solution to increase children and families’ access to healthy food in Los Angeles during this virtual design-a-thon challenge. Chance to win $5,000 in cash and other prizes TBA. Hackathon is taking place March 4th-6th. To sign-up, click here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=HVNizmW2rkqhdQq1FBwZ2hsYomhv4VRImQj4wuS6QcVUMVhGMUI0STAxNTROSFRIWERQOFpDMzhZTS4u

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