OHUB@Campus

Innovation, entrepreneurship, and venture ecosystem development initiative

The next generation of founders, investors, and tech leaders is on your campus right now. OHUB@Campus provides the ecosystem, curriculum, and industry partnerships to find them, develop them, and connect them to the opportunities they deserve.

Overview

Building the Campus Bridge to the Innovation Economy

The future of work is arriving faster than traditional campus pathways can adapt. Employers are raising expectations for early-career talent, AI skills are becoming baseline, and students need more than inspiration to compete. They need structured access to industry, venture-building, applied technology, and the social capital that turns ambition into opportunity.

OHUB@Campus helps colleges and universities build that bridge. Through chapters, ecosystem programming, employer engagement, and founder-focused learning, we equip students to move from awareness to readiness, and from readiness to measurable economic mobility.

For institutions committed to preparing students for the innovation economy, OHUB@Campus is a scalable model for access, readiness, and long-term workforce transformation.

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TRUSTED ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS

Access to a global network of leading think tanks, edge technology festivals, startup entrepreneurship support programs, accelerators and early stage venture funding sources including but not limited to:

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Climate Tech Bootcamp logo
Shark Tank logo
Trajectory Series logo
The Links Incorporated logo
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HR&A logo
State Small Business Credit Initiative logo
Economic Development Association logo
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City logo
Brookings logo
High Alpha innovation logo
H2 the future logo
NC Rural center Logo
100 black angels and allies logo
Innovate Alabama logo
Greater New Orleans logo

OHUB@Campus is built to deliver measurable outcomes for your students, your institution, and your community.

We partner with institutions to turn campus ambition into an operating ecosystem: a licensed model, a guided launch framework, and ongoing programming that connects students, alumni, employers, educators, and capital.

  • Career pathways into tech & venture — Connect students to large innovative corporations, technology companies, high-growth startups, venture funds, and private equity firms actively recruiting diverse talent.
  • Immersive real-world experiences — Scholarships to national conferences like RenderATL and Afrotech, regional startup badges, pitch competitions, and hands-on accelerator programming.
  • Industry-recognized credentials — Certificates in AI, high-growth company building, and venture investment that signal competency to employers and investors.
  • A thriving campus ecosystem — Monthly events, office hours, recruiter visits, and a community of founders, investors, and peers invested in each other’s success.
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Affiliation

A great launching pad to expose and connect your campus to tech career pathways, startup entrepreneurship, and the venture capital ecosystem.

  • College/university license to the OHUB ecosystem brand
  • Unlimited OHUB Next memberships for all students & faculty
  • Private-branded ecosystem channel in the OHUB app
  • Access to hiring & startup ecosystem building partners
  • Monthly administration consulting (2 hrs/month)
  • OHUB AI certificate seats x 10, plus revenue sharing on OHUB AI, startup, and venture capital certificates offered as continuing education
  • Five (5) student scholarships + one (1) faculty fellowship to RenderATL or Afrotech
  • OHUB CEO fireside keynote event
  • 100 OHUB T-shirts & Kingonomics books

Programing & Practice

An onsite and online campus program to increase exposure, immersion, and engagement in the tech, startup, and venture ecosystem.

Includes everything in Chapter, Plus:

  • Full-time campus ecosystem manager
  • Monthly events, office hours with students & faculty
  • Entrepreneurship course taught using OHUB’s inclusive innovation curriculum
  • Programming: 1-day startup bootcamp (×100), High Growth Company Building certificate seats (×50), Venture Investment certificate (×25), OHUB AI (×25)
  • $25,000 startup pitch competition
  • Revenue share on immersive badges, certificates, and degrees

Applied Experimentation

A dedicated OHUB Lab with a full-time program manager for office hours, recruitment experiences, events, an annual summit, hackathon, and pitch competition for students and alumni.

Includes everything in Ecosystem, plus:

  • Physical tech, startup & venture lab on campus (school provides space; OHUB operates)
  • Full-time lab manager serving as primary liaison to local and national ecosystem partners
  • Two (2) part-time paid student internships
  • Weekly office hours, monthly events, recruiter visits
  • Annual tech, startup & venture summit, hackathon, and $25K pitch competition with national judge investors

Scale & Capital

A scalable accelerator for technology, entrepreneurship, and future-of-work workforce skills and certificates — and a new revenue stream for your college or university.

Includes everything in Lab, plus:

  • Full-time program manager, partnerships manager, and events lead
  • Startup accelerator ×10 with $1.2M investment
  • Monthly networking events featuring high-growth founders and venture capitalists
  • Annual tech + startup summit and $100,000 startup competition
  • OHUB AI, High Growth Company Building, and VC continuing education programs
  • Tuition sharing opportunity on all continuing education programming

Technology Recruiter Network

Fundraising Your Partnership

You don’t have to fund this alone. OHUB@Campus partnerships can be supported through a range of existing institutional resources.

  • Institutional funding — Existing resources, public-private partnerships, or government contracts such as DOE, Title III, Career Pathways, and LSAMP.
  • Alumni & industry support — Alumni who own businesses or work in tech can fund an OHUB Ecosystem or Program and serve as chapter advisors and mentors.
  • Crowdfunding — Your Alumni Association can launch a crowdfunding campaign to fund an OHUB Lab on campus.
  • Foundations & corporations — Via institutional advancement, raise funds from foundations and corporate partners to support an OHUB Accelerator.
Your students deserve access to the tech, startup, and venture ecosystem. Let’s talk about how to make it happen.