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A robust suite of AI-powered services and integrated workflows designed to enhance university-wide collaboration, adapt to industry changes, accelerate student-led ventures, and create a self-sustaining model of university-driven venture development.
ConneXions is xFoundry's all-in-one platform built for student teams competing in our programs. ConneXions keeps everything students need in one place. Including mentors, tools, submission information and deadlines, and the team workspace so they can focus on building their solution instead of chasing information. ConneXions adapts to where students are in the competition, surfacing the right tools and content at the right time to keep teams moving forward.
Students access mentors, learning resources, competition guidelines, and AI-powered tools all in one platform.
Students see exactly where their team stands on gates and deliverables so they always know what's done and what's up next.
A shared workspace for student teams to collaborate on documents, communicate, submit deliverables, and keep work organized in one place.
Students receive tailored updates, guides, and resources that keep you informed on competition news and walk you through each phase step by step.


A comprehensive venture-building blueprint that guides students through every aspect of building a startup within the university ecosystem. The program blends an asynchronous curriculum, including first-hand video insights from Xperts on their venture-building experience, with a structured framework of criteria, deliverables, and milestones designed to develop both problem-solving capabilities and investment-ready solutions.
Students access mentors, learning resources, competition guidelines, and AI-powered tools all in one platform.
Students see exactly where their team stands on gates and deliverables so they always know what's done and what's up next.
A shared workspace for student teams to collaborate on documents, communicate, submit deliverables, and keep work organized in one place.
Students receive tailored updates, guides, and resources that keep you informed on competition news and walk you through each phase step by step.


An AI operating layer that powers the ecosystem. Students get a full workspace to build business plans, run financial models, generate pitch decks, analyze markets, and create any deliverable, with guidance that adapts to their team's unique progress, phase, and goals.
Get recommendations, resources, and next steps that shift based on your team's current phase, progress, and goals.
Learns from interactions, tracks progress, and surfaces what's relevant before you ask — the infrastructure that powers every tool in the ecosystem.
Students get free access to the same tools startups pay thousands for. Enterprise AI platforms, development hardware, video and design software, scheduling systems, and more. Every tool is matched to a specific competition deliverable so teams always know exactly what to use and when to use it.
Students graduate with hands-on fluency in the same professional AI and development tools employers now expect on day one.
Workstations, GPUs, and wearable devices for teams building products that require compute power or physical prototyping.
Professional subscriptions and accounts students would otherwise need to pay for, provided through negotiated partnerships with vendors.

A roster of live, bookable mentors experienced executives, leading experts, and academic leaders who help mentor teams, provide knowledge through guest lectures and videos.
Get live feedback on submissions, practice on your pitches, and real-life anecdotal advice through virtual office hours, panels, and workshops.
Get intelligently matched with the right mentors based on your challenge, stage, or required expertise, and book them right on the platform.
Receive the transcripts, recordings, and action items from your virtual sessions straight to your dashboard for incorporating into your project plan.
Build professional muscle in interfacing with industry experts, requesting and receiving feedback, and relationship-building with stakeholders.

A consortium of independent GP/LP funds dedicated to investing in student startups launched from xFoundry’s programs. Xponential collects and manages prize investment funds earmarked for the winning team(s) that meet all investment-grade requirements.
A network of investors with fiduciary responsibility and a stake in the success of student start-ups.
Independently managed funds that award safe investments, either in one or multiple phases, to the winning team(s).
