da Vinci Center News

Thank you to those that were able to participate in our first in-person Demo Day and livestream since 2019! It was a rousing success for us at da Vinci. Congratulations to the teams that earned Seed Funding Awards! C’est La Vie, Entrepreneur: Yosef Mirakov CohenKBHealth, Entrepreneur: Amir BehdaniNoodlers, Entrepreneur: Peyton SpanglerBetter2Gether, presented by entrepreneurs: Bella Lubinskas, Brenna […]

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – Virginia Commonwealth University will be opening a Shift Retail Lab, which gives former and current students at the university a chance to showcase their work, giving them retail and office spaces. “While student founders will be able to sell their products in the Shift Retail Lab, the main goal is to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lloyd [email protected] Richmond, Virginia: In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week and VCU Homecoming Week, the VCU da Vinci Center has planned multiple events to introduce an exciting new retail space to the community. Shift Retail Lab at VCU will support founders with retail space, office space, and serve as a front […]

IN THE NEWS “If you stop in the da Vinci Center’s Shift Retail Lab after it opens in November, there’s no telling what you’ll find. And that’s part of the beauty of it. The shop is envisioned as multifunctional retail space where students and alumni of all disciplines can showcase their work to gain insights and test […]

IN THE NEWS “Design thinking, like systems engineering, is at the heart of how engineers solve problems,” said Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D., the Alice T. and William H. Goodwin Jr. Dean of the VCU College of Engineering. “These are core skills that are critical for all types of engineering. Not only do the individual parts need to […]

The VCU da Vinci Center is embarking on a radical new offering that will train cross-disciplinary faculty members from across the university to master Adobe Creative Cloud applications. Additionally, the da Vinci Center will invite Creative Cloud graduate student ambassadors to serve as graduate assistants. The primary goal of this project is to advance digital […]

IN THE NEWS “I wanted to work in collaborative environments where we could build a business from the ground up with the hope to gain experience to one day open my own business,” he said. That desire led him to pursue an undergraduate certificate in venture creation at the VCU da Vinci Center, a collaboration of […]

IN THE NEWS “Virginia Commonwealth University has launched two new initiatives through its da Vinci Center for Innovation: the Entrepreneurship Academy and the Student Storefront.  The projects are a collaboration between the da Vinci Center and two business-focused organizations in Richmond: Activation Capital, which supports innovative entrepreneurs and their startup ventures, and The Jackson Ward Collective (JWC), a new hub for […]

Before classes begin this fall, the College of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University will offer its incoming first-year students the opportunity to earn an “Introduction to Design Thinking” credential from the VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation. “This industry-recognized credential is part of our overall strategy to provide a modern engineering education,” said Gregory E. Triplett, […]

IN THE NEWS / MARCH 2021 “Jackson Ward Collective extended its network to VCU students this year through a partnership with Activation Capital — a nonprofit organization that helps new entrepreneurs with their ideas — and the university’s da Vinci Center for Innovation. The program, titled the Entrepreneurship Academy, promotes economic development and extends opportunities […]