Workshop: From Academia to Entrepreneurship
What does it take to start your own company when leaving academia?
Join a curated group of ambitious and talented individuals and project yourself in the entrepreneurship path after your PhD or postdoc.
Free participation but limited spots are available!
Why you should join?
Explore your own willingness to found a company
Learn from a founder and alumni of Pasteur Institute
Meet with like-minded people sharing similar aspirations
What to expect?
The workshop will take place in Room 25 and will last 2 hours.
4:30pm - Methodology and practice to start your own company with Marie Amestoy, Associate at Entrepreneur First
5:30pm - Q&A with Maxime Mistretta, PhD., CTO at Spore.bio
6:30pm - Social Event with STAPA
Who should join?
If you are doing a PhD or postdoc, you want to have a strong impact on the world and you're thinking about taking the leap or you are just curious about entrepreneurship, then this workshop is made for you.
About the organizers
Entrepreneur First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors.
Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2014, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent.
The startups cofounded on our programs are now worth over $10B, and include Tractable, Magic Pony Technology, Cleo, La Vie, Aztec, Sonantic, and many more. EF is backed by some of the world's leading founders and investors, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo), Sara Clemens (Whatnot and Twitch), Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind), and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress).
We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t.