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The&nbsp<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ed4d0d5d-1fad-2b1f-5c88-bdd3eb3f6bd7"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;[httpwhite-space://nciia.org/ pre-wrap;">Founded in 1995, VentureWell (originally called the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance ]&nbsp;(, or NCIIA)&nbsp;with support from The Lemelson Foundation, founded by prolific independent U.S. inventor Jerome Lemelson had from its beginnings invention at its heart. Lemelson, a man who believed that invention was&nbsp;established in 1995essential to American economic success and vitality, envisioned a program that would foster the next generation of collegiate inventors and help them bring their ideas to impact. The NCIIA</span></span></span></span><div><br/></div>VentureWell's mission is&nbsp;''"to support technology innovation and entrepreneurship in higher education to create experiential learning opportunities for students and successful, socially beneficial innovations and businesses."''

With a growing membership of nearly more than 200 colleges and universities from all over the United States, the NCIIA VentureWell engages more than 5,000 student and faculty innovators and entrepreneurs each year, helping them to bring their concepts to commercialization.

The NCIIA VentureWell ‘pipeline’ provides nascent student start-ups with early stage funding, helps with business strategy development, mentoring and investment. The NCIIA VentureWell provides faculty with funding for courses and programs in technology entrepreneurship, opportunities for recognition and entrepreneurship education training and networking.