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xFoundry to lead the NASA and USM Space Act Agreement

175,000+ USM students can now work directly on NASA's technology priorities.

Fuel innovation while cultivating talent.

Sponsor competitions, drive emerging solutions, and create workforce-ready graduates.

Fueling visionary breakthroughs requires committed sponsorship.

As an xFoundry Sponsor, your financial support, whether directed toward program verticals, scholarships, or project funding, drives our mission and connects your brand with breakthrough innovation and high-impact problem-solving.

Your contribution

  • Champion impact areas: Fund program verticals (Climate, Education, Food and Water,  Health, Infrastructure, and Society) or flagship Xperience Competitions
  • Launch careers: Endow Xperience scholarships or sponsor breakthrough student ventures
  • Expand reach: Support university affiliate memberships or provide critical resources (labs, software, funding)

your advantage

  • Visibility Leadership: Title sponsorship rights 
  • Governance Access: Board/Advisory seat nomination for strategic influence
  • Inside Access: Judging access & competition intelligence
  • Talent Pipeline: First look at TEAMS-certified graduates with founder mindsets

Sponsorships brought to life

Our creative team works directly with you to highlight your support in ways that elevate your personal or professional brand, and ensure your contribution is reflected in our students’ boundary-pushing efforts throughout the duration of our competition cycles.

Ways to sponsor

Sponsorships allow xFoundry to operate novel competitions, challenges, research, and development, enhancing our innovative, proprietary platform for student innovation and solving grand challenges through entrepreneurship.

NEXPLORE SUMMIT

  • xFoundry's annual summit where industry, academia, and the public sector forge solutions to grand challenges and launch student ventures. Next summit:
    April 6-7, 2027 • Amazon HQII, Arlington VA

University Affiliate Sponsor

  • Affiliate universities get full access to xFoundry programs, tools, and services for their entire student population, from a first year to a recent graduate. Sponsor your alma mater or regional research institution partner to enhance talent pipelines and opportunities for the next generation.  

Other opportunities

  • Sponsor a competition in your domain with naming or partner rights.
The generation today are very conscientious about trying to solve our grand challenges. But to do that you have to have a commercial entity that will actually make money, create jobs, and that's how you can solve the problems.
William Bentley, Ph.D.
Director at Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices
I'm a very satisfied donor and I was able to find a project where we could actually contribute at the intersection of education and research that made me very, very happy.
Emilio A. Fernandez '69
Founding Donor at E. A. Fernandez IDEA Factory
These are the kind of minds that we need to bring together because in order for us to innovate, it really takes people that are accustomed to thinking outside the box
Christyl Johnson, Ph.D.
Deputy Associate Administrator, Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA
Become a sponsor

Help create workforce-ready graduates and build solutions to society's grand challenges.