All figures from 2016–18 unless noted

 

757

Companies founded by undergraduate alumni

$1,827,853

Total funding for student ventures

 

641

Students across Penn who’ve participated in the annual Startup Challenge

 

$24 BILLION

Capital raised by MBA alumni startups since 2006

 

TWENTY-FOUR

PWE team members in Philadelphia and San Francisco

 

$250

Minimum seed funding for each student venture awarded through the Penn Wharton Innovation Fund

 

$600,000+

Prize money available to Penn and Wharton student entrepreneurs annually

 

214

Student ventures awarded through the Penn Wharton Innovation Fund

 

638

Companies founded by MBA alumni

 

4,561

Students engaged through PWE programming

 

7-9 P.M. EST

Airtime each Wednesday for Launch Pad, hosted by vice dean of entrepreneurship and innovation Karl Ulrich and Rob Coneybeer WG96 on Wharton Business Radio, SiriusXM channel 132

 

FORTY-FIVE

Alumni and business professionals who’ve volunteered to help aspiring Penn student entrepreneurs through the “Experts in Residence” program

980

Student ventures developed through PWE

 

Published as “Innovation Incubation” in the Spring/Summer 2019 issue of Wharton Magazine.