Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre

Experience Ventures

For Business

Opportunities for Businesses

What is Experience Ventures

Shape your company’s future with early talent from top universities and colleges from across Canada. Experience Ventures, powered by the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking at the University of Calgary, enables college and university students to make an impact alongside real-world innovators through entrepreneurial thinking placements

Identify early talent

Why wait to engage with students until after they’ve graduated? For Canada’s startups and social ventures, identifying the right talent—and the right mindset—is a priority. Your future depends on it. Experience Ventures works with you to create entrepreneurial thinking placements for students. 

An entrepreneurial thinking placement is a structured, short-term placement (with honorarium) with companies like yours, that partner with a student’s school.

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Why participate?

  • Access to fresh, innovative thinking from tomorrow’s changemakers and disrupters at a very affordable price 
  • Recruit early talent to your local innovation economy
  • Tap into the different insights and perspectives of students and evaluate prospective talent
  • Diversify the talent pool that seeks to work in social impact and/or tech innovation
  • Contribute to the success of your campus-linked incubator
  • Give your up-and-coming team members the opportunity to develop their managerial skill set

How does it work?

  • Apply for an entrepreneurial thinking placement 
  •  Companies provide in-kind support, while students receive an honorarium through Experience Ventures
  • Both students and companies go through an onboarding process and participate in one of five types of entrepreneurial thinking placements and evaluate their experiences

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