Learn entrepreneurship by building a company.

3 weeks, a team you meet on day one and a pitch night with real money on the table. UC Berkeley has sent students every summer since 2013.

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World records held by EIA

Most startups founded in 3 weeks80+ ventures from a single cohort
Largest entrepreneurship study-abroad program400+ students, 65+ nationalities, one hall, one cohort
Largest one-night student investment awards€100,000 decided in a single pitch night

The method

No lectures. You build a company.

Every team ships a product, sells it and pitches it. Mentors from NVIDIA, Google and Amazon coach you, on a tech stack from partners like NVIDIA. Customers decide if it works.

Pre-week1. Find co-foundersPitch ideas online and form a team.
Week 12. BuildCustomer interviews, then a prototype in users' hands.
Week 23. SellLive campaigns with a real budget.
Week 34. PitchInvestors, a full hall and $100K investment prizes across 3 programs

Conditions applyFinish EIA Ventures, incorporate, get a 1:1 co-investor.

World recordMost startups founded in 3 weeks: 80+ ventures from a single cohort. EIA Porto, 2026.

Out of 100 students, how many fail?

34 of 100 fail

Lecture course

Fail
Pass

Students in lecture courses were 1.5 times more likely to fail.

Freeman et al., PNAS 2014. Meta-analysis of 225 studies of university science courses (33.8% vs 21.8%).

Out of 100 students, how many fail?
Course	Fail (of 100)
Lecture course	34
Learning by doing	22

Peer-reviewed

Students leave as founders.

Researchers measured EIA students before and after the course. Pick a measure.

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Students with no startup experience who plan to found a company.

Before EIA: 0%
After EIA: 58%

Taggar, Domurath & Coviello, Academy of Management, 2019

Before and after EIA
Measure	Before EIA	After EIA	Source
Founding intent	0%	58%	Taggar, Domurath & Coviello, Academy of Management, 2019
Self-efficacy	0	+1.8	Brandt, 2023
Resilience	0	+1.6	Brandt, 2023
Passion	0	+1.3	Taggar, Domurath & Coviello, 2024

Innovation

Commercialisation Act

Every team has three weeks to reach 10,000 in revenue. The money isn't the point. Sales prove the world needs what you built.

10Krevenue target in three weeks

After the course

The course ends. The companies keep going.

25,000 alumni in 85+ countries. Their companies include Wise, Bolt, The Farmer's Dog and GrabCAD.

$2.2Braised by alumni companies
32,000+jobs created

Keep building with EIA Ventures

Out of 100 alumni

EIA Alumni Survey 2024

Built for founders who work with AI.

Teaching founders where AI fits changes the numbers. EIA now runs five studies on AI founders, with 350 teams a year.

Startups taught where AI fits, indexed to 100

With the training

Revenue
Capital needed

Without the training
With the training

Kim, working paper. 515 startups.