Resources

Incubators

• Blackstone Launchpad — Early stage accelerator with workspace, tools, coaching and mentorship, powered by Techstars.
• Marshall Grief Incubator — Accelerator for student and alumni entrepreneurs with mentorship and community.
• USC Rossier Edtech Incubator — Match with Venture consultant no matter what stage you are at.
• Viterbi Startup Garage — 10-week Silicon Beach located accelerator and workspace for engineering teams.
• FAB Lab — Resources for students to make design project physical reality.
• Hacker House — Venture Incubation Program providing teams with co-working space near campus and technical support.
• Alfred Mann Institute — Biomedical Engineering incubator for medical products.
• Bridge Program — Year long incubator designed for helping gaming companies grow to acquirement.
• Crunch Accelerator — Students teams learn successful startup techniques with brand, story, and customer marketing.
• D-Health Lab — Healthcare IT focused incubator with domain specific mentors.

Student Groups

Entrepreneurship

• Lavalab — Premier student-run Incubator to start your ideas as a Product Manager, Designer or Developer.
• Spark SC — Entrepreneurship club with initiatives like Project Launch, Startup Career Fair, Tech.LA Fellows, and more.
• Troy Labs— Focused on supporting SC companies with Demo Day, capital, and startup consulting.
• Chinese Entrepreneurship Network — Entrepreneurship network backed by industry connections in China.
• Silicon Beach Club — Connect brightest USC students with companies in Silicon Beach.

Design

• Design For America — Social impact design studio, developing products for social impact.
• AIGA USC — Professional Association for Design, creating events, experiences, opportunities.
• Corpus Callosum — Art x Technology organization to work on interdisciplinary projects.

Business

• Los Angeles Community Impact — Pro-bono consulting for Los Angeles socially minded organizations.
• Trojan Venture Partners — Venture organization, providing platform for students to learn about venture.
• NOBE — Community for those interested in Engineering x Business.
• Trojan Blockchain Society — Focusing on education and community initiatives related to Blockchain.
• TAMID Group — Non profit providing consulting for Israeli startups.
• RISE Consulting — Pro-bono startup and nonprofits consulting
• LATCH — Los Angeles Technical Consulting Club, focusing on UI, Strategy, and Software.

Engineering

• SCOPE — Community of mobile app developers, new curriculum each semester.
• Makers — Viterbi sponsored Electronics club, develop hardware related projects.
• CAIS++ — Machine Learning community, learn ML and build projects.
• XRSC — Virtual and Augmented Reality community at USC.
• 3D4E — 3D Printing student organization, working on giving back to community.
• Code the Change — Pro-bono developer organization working on software for non-profits.
• Project Launch — Group teaching tech, design, and entrepreneurship to underserved communities.
• Trojan Cryptocurrency Club — Community of Cryptocurrency enthusiasts hosting workshops and blockchain projects.
• CybOrg — Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics community, host workshops and CTF's.
• MEGA — Makers of Entertaining Games Association. Promote game creation at SC.

Funding Resources

• Contrary Capital — Pre-seed university-focused VC firm made up of a nationwide network across universities.
• Marshall Venture Fund — Fund exclusively for startups founded by USC students, faculty, and alumni.
• #LongLA Investor List — Firms and Angels where the investment focus or home base is in Los Angeles.

Fellowships and Fraternities

• Sigma Eta Pi — Co-ed fraternity focused on entrepreneurship.
• Alpha Kappa Si Co-ed preprofessional business fraternity, open to all majors.
• Delta Sigma Pi — Co-ed preprofessional business fraternity, for business focused students.
• Kappa Theta Tau — Co-ed preprofessional engineering fraternity.
• Eta Kappa Nu — National Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Honor Society.
• Tau Beta Pi — Oldest and Largest Engineering Honor Society
• Kairos Society — Society focusing on next generation of founders on problems worth solving.
• KP Fellows — Fellowship program connecting students to startups in engineering, design, and Product Management.
• Tech.LA Fellows — Fellowship program connecting students to LA based startups in engineering, design, and business.

Competitions

Hackathons

• HackSC — Weekend long hackathon hosted by USC, open to students of all majors at any university.
• AthenaHacks — USC's premier all-female hackathon, trans and non-binary inclusive.
• HackSC Jr — Pre-collegiate hackathon for beginner students from underrepresented backgrounds in tech.
• BreakToMake — all-women's make-a-thon for hardware and physical hacks.
• EurekaHacks — Undergrad and Grad student hackathon focusing on data science
• ASBME Makeathon — BioMedical make-a-thon to solve problem in collaborative environment
• TrojanHacks — Semesterly 24-hour hackathon hosted by USC ACM

Startup Competitions

• USC Demo Day — Showcase of best startups for current and alum students.
• Stevens Innovator Showcase — Show inventions, startups, prototypes to faculty and LA leaders.
• ATHENA Female Founders Pitch Competition — Women focused pitch competition, hosted by 8VC and Lloyd Grief Center.
• New Venture Seed Competition — Launch program for students or recent graduates.
• USC Wrigley Sustainability Prize — Supporting environmental ideas within the USC community.
• Women in Business Competition — Teams of women MBA students pitch new business ideas before a panel of experts.
• Masseh Prize Competition — Global problems in energy, health, education, safety, and environment.
• Min Family Engineering Social Entrepreneurship Challenge — Engineering competition to develop sustainable solutions.
• The Real Deal — Competition for commercial and defense/security markets.