This fall, the Magnuson Center awarded $20,000 in Founder Grants to seven early ventures. Founder Grants are open to current students, faculty and staff, and help provide funding to help make progress on their startups.

Steve Mandel ’78, Mark Mader ’92, and Brent Frei ’88 T’89, were inducted on Sept. 4 into Dartmouth’s Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame at a dinner in San Francisco organized by the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship.

The community helps foster a supportive environment for founders who are willing to share both their highs and lows as they go through their startup journeys together.

The 2025 cohort of the Digital Health Track of the Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator included projects ranging from detecting fractured bones without x-rays to harnessing AI for reconstructive surgery.

Magnuson’s startup grants provide new founders with funding opportunities to help make progress on their ventures. Please join us in congratulating all of the grantees!

Mentorship and feedback from a diverse and talented External Review Panel provided immense value to participants in the most recent DIAC cohort.

They benefited from participating in The Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer as graduate students. Now, they’re volunteering to make Dartmouth’s entrepreneurial ecosystem even stronger.

For decades, cancer researchers have been stymied by an elusive challenge: a gene that fuels unchecked cell growth. Myelocytomatosis oncogene (known as MYC) plays a role in most deadly tumors. Yet efforts to develop drugs to rein it in have consistently fallen short.