Purdue Innovates Ventures
West Lafayette, IN ventures.prf.org University venture fund
About
Invests from pre-seed to Series A+ in startups led by Purdue alumni, students, faculty or staff, or licensing Purdue-owned technology.
- Kind
- University venture fund
- Location
- West Lafayette, IN
- Website
- ventures.prf.org
- University
- Purdue University
- Eligible
- A founder or C-suite member who is a Purdue alum, student, faculty or staff member, or a company licensing Purdue-owned IP
- Stages
- Pre-seed to Series A+
- Sectors
- Agriculture, deep tech, digital tech, life sciences and mobility
Venture funds run by or for a university: seed funds, technology-transfer funds and investor networks tied to the university, which back companies from its research, students, staff or alumni. All university venture funds.
Source
About this data
Compiled by hand on 2026-10-11 from each fund's own website or its page on the university's site; no directory or ranking was copied. Listed are funds, investment companies and investor networks run by a university or its foundation, owned or anchored by one or more universities, or operating under a stated agreement or affiliation with one. source_url is the page that was fetched that day and that the summary rests on. The summary is our own sentence. Facts repeat what the site says: the university, who is eligible, and the check size where stated. City, state and country are given only where the site states them (country also where the site is the university's own or the company's national registration is plain from it). figure_usd is a fund size or assets figure stated in US dollars on the site, with figure_label saying which; amounts in other currencies, including Canadian and Australian dollars, are left in the facts unconverted. Nothing is estimated. Left out: funds whose pages could not be fetched, answered with a block page, or showed no update since 2024. As of October 11, 2026. Source: Websites of the university funds listed. Organizations only: no individuals are listed. A listing is a public record, not a recommendation.