The Lepage Center Student Venture Incubator is a place for students to develop their ideas while providing the tools and resources required to start a venture. Students in the incubator participate in Spark Hours and have access to Innovators-in-Residence and pro-bono legal services. Any students interested in becoming part of the Student Venture Incubator should contact Timekia Mallery.
Spark Hours
Spark Hours are sessions where students can work on new ideas in an individual or group setting and to connect with other startups on campus. During Spark Hours, students get peer-to-peer help with their ventures from Lepage Student Fellows, allowing students at the beginning stage of their startup to develop their ideas and to work on the company’s Business Model Canvas. These scheduled hours also provide the opportunity for students to engage with mentors and other professionals. Spark Hours hosts guest mentors, workshops, roundtable discussions and group meetup sessions. for student to connect with other startups on campus.
Pitch Friday Series
Pitch Friday Series is an excellent opportunity for student startups to pitch their ventures to a panel of judges and receive valuable feedback to incorporate into their ventures. This competition continues to motivate many student startups in the beginning phases to push their ideas to the next level. Pitch Friday series competition is open to all Tulane students across campus, and it helps cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit in students. In addition to valuable feedback on their pitch, the winner from each of the competitions in the series wins a cash prize and a spot in the Grand Prize Round in April.
Mentor Office Hours
Meet with one of our accomplished and knowledgeable Innovators-in-Residence, mentors, entrepreneurs and professionals who can help guide you through your entrepreneurial journey.
Legal Office Hours
Get guidance on the legal needs associated with your startup through legal office hours.
2024-2025 Student Venture Incubator Companies
- AI Care: An AI-based platform to assist medication systems.
- BeeFuel: BEEFUEL's Pre-Performance Mushroom Stack combines functional mushrooms, adaptogens, and natural performance enhancers into a clean pre-workout formula that delivers sustained energy and mental clarity without the crash of synthetic alternatives.
- Cloud IX: An encrypted chatbot app that provides students with resource referral, self-care support, crisis response, and safety planning to change the conversation around violence.
- Convyrse: AI-powered tools for airlines to enhance customer service through a voicebot that can manage various customer inquiries and issues.
- Metrix: An AI-driven grading platform that streamlines the grading process for educators while providing students with valuable feedback, resources, and tools.
- Tipzy: An app that allows customers to tip musicians or bars to play their song requests and gives customers control over the playlist.
- WaveRC: A platform that empowers RC plane enthusiasts to easily design, visualize, and manufacture personalized models using a user-friendly 3D design tool.
- Abode: Abode streamlines student housing management by unifying tenant onboarding, communication, and maintenance requests in one user-friendly platform.
- Tickets: A mobile app offering subscribers exclusive discounts on local sports and entertainment tickets, benefiting both venues seeking to fill seats and users looking for affordable entertainment options.
- Ships: Ships is a social matchmaking app where users create activity-based profiles and play matchmaker by swiping on potential pairs of other users in their area, with successful matches (approved by multiple users) leading to chats where mutual contacts who suggested the match are credited.
- Quit Real: A gamified vaping-tracking app that helps users gradually reduce their nicotine consumption by monitoring daily usage patterns and turning the quitting journey into an engaging challenge.
- BarHop: BarHop is a real-time mobile app that helps users find nearby bars based on objective data like drink prices, music, crowd demographics, and atmosphere, rather than subjective reviews.
- Lagniappe: An AI-powered academic planning tool that generates personalized semester-by-semester course schedules based on students' degree requirements and audit information to ensure timely graduation.
- Bev Box: BevBox offers university students affordable daily hydration through smart vending machines that dispense beverages instantly with a phone scan, making staying refreshed on campus both economical and sustainable.
- Rentable: College Students' Go-To Platform for Off-Campus Housing Reviews.
- StudyCircle: StudyCircle is an Uber-style marketplace that connects college students with peer tutors through dynamic pricing, ratings, and profile matching.
- Magnolia Music: A personalized hub that matches New Orleans music lovers with live shows and helps them share their concert experiences.
- Nola Sip & Snack: NOLA Sip & Snack delivers curated New Orleans-themed snack and drink bundles, featuring local favorites like beignets and pralines, with late-night delivery for students and tourists.
- Exactics: Exactics develops rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases, showcased by their 15-minute QuickLyme test and multiplex malaria testing program in Nigeria.
- Blueprint: Blueprint uses AI to analyze construction plans and optimize material purchasing, with a premium service that forecasts building commodity prices to help contractors maximize profitability through strategic buying and inventory management.
- Dreamaversity: Our football advisory platform offers personalized mentorship, training, and recruitment guidance from experienced coaches to help underdog defensive backs ages 13-18 overcome physical limitations and gain college recruitment exposure through customized development plans and film analysis.
- FILINIT: FILINIT crafts premium leather bags that blend Colombian artisanship with modern design, offering professional women and eco-conscious consumers a sustainable, accessible alternative to both fast fashion and luxury brands, with plans to expand through e-commerce, retail partnerships, and flexible payment options.
- Jiā Chinese Kitchen: A healthier, fast-casual Chinese restaurant pop-up serving fresh and customizable bowls.
- Macho Protein: Macho Protein's revolutionary marinara sauce, containing 16 grams of protein per serving and free from harmful additives, is setting a new industry standard for healthy pre-made foods, with plans to expand into other protein-infused sauces and condiments.
- Big D's Meats: As a Tulane student who has successfully catered numerous campus events, I recognize the opportunity to address the persistent issues of unreliable and expensive late-night food delivery services that currently plague our campus community.
- Rally: Tinder for sports! A social media sports mobile app that helps you find your next sports competitor or partner.
- Sparky: Sparky combines an LED-equipped piano key overlay mat with a note-detection app to guide students through playing songs without requiring them to read traditional sheet music.
