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What is the ANTrepreneur Center?
With a mission to help UCI students explore the process of entrepreneurship, the UCI ANTrepreneur Center serves as a hub where student entrepreneurs, or “ANTrepreneurs,” can develop the skills necessary to start, operate, or grow their own businesses. Since its establishment in 2014, the ANTrepreneur Center has offered access to resources, events, programs, and services to foster innovative thinking and an entrepreneurial spirit in UCI’s student body.
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Experience Entrepreneurship
The ANTrepreneur Center exists to serve as the home for all UCI ANTrepreneurs. It’s a safe place to bring ideas, meet other students who want to launch their own startups, find funding, connect with mentors, and learn from experts on how to navigate starting and growing a business.
One-on-One Support
With one-on-one consultation sessions, the ANTrepreneur Center is especially equipped for helping undergraduates startups. Whether you need help coming up with an idea, or taking your idea to the next level, meeting with our Venture Consultants is the perfect way to start.
The $ide Hustle Challenge
Discover how the $ide Hustle Challenge is turning student side hustles into serious business ventures. Through expert-led workshops, dedicated mentoring, and a final marketplace event, UCI students will be equipped to transform their innovative ideas into tomorrow’s leading brands.
Check out our latest blogs, interviews, and announcemtns.
Gaining Gigs While Graduating: UCI Connects Students with Micro-Internships at Top OC Companies
Learn more about the UCI ANTrepreneur Center’s Self-Starter Micro-Internship program and how a partnership with the CEO Leadership Alliance Orange County, UCI Office of Data and Information Technology, and Parker Dewey brought the program to life.
Empowering Women in Tech: Student Experience at the Grace Hopper Celebration ’23
My name is Lakshmi Narke, and I am a Master in Computer Science student at UC Irvine. This year marked my first-ever attendance at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), a remarkable week-long conference hosted by AnitaB.org that fervently celebrates and empowers...
OC Leaders Rally Around UCI’s AI Innovators
At the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), the ANTrepreneur Center has secured support from prominent Orange County entrepreneurship groups for its upcoming AI Innovation Challenge. Tech Coast Angels (TCA), the OC Startup Council, the Tech Coast Venture...
Where is the ANTrepreneur Center?
We are located in the Banning House, next to Undergraduate Undeclared and Disability Services