Pilot Venture Challenge

University of Portland's premier business, social and invention competition!

Get Ready for Pilot Venture Challenge 2025 - Saturday, April 26th!

 


 Overview

The Pilots Venture Challenge is a premier business, social enterprise and invention competition hosted by the Franz Center at the University of Portland. Underwritten by generous donors to the University, the competition promotes experiential education about entrepreneurship and new business development by focusing on student created, launched, and managed ventures. The spirit of this competition is that current UP undergraduate or graduate students both originate and lead the startup idea.