From Your Campus to Silicon Valley.

Introducing the Global Market Access Program: A premier, co-branded partnership by VarsityScape and USA Launching Pad to connect your top student entrepreneurs with the U.S. innovation ecosystem.

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Why Offer a Global Market Access Program?

This isn’t just a trip; it’s a strategic program to elevate your institution’s profile.

By partnering with VarsityScape, you provide a high-impact experiential learning opportunity that directly benefits your university, your faculty, and your students.

Boost Reputation & Rankings

Complement your school's reputation, perception, and overall profile, signaling a strong commitment to global innovation.

Attract Top-Tier Students

A key differentiator that influences selection by prospective students seeking entrepreneurship-focused universities.

Enhance Curriculum

Complement your existing curriculum with a real-world, experiential learning program managed on our powerful EdTech platform.

Support Innovation

Showcase a tangible commitment to entrepreneurship, equipping your students with real-world U.S. market insights.

A "Learn Before You Launch" Immersion

Powered by USA Launching Pad’s expertise, the program is a 1-2 week curated immersion in U.S. tech hotspots, including Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and Austin.

Understand Ecosystems

Immerse cohorts in U.S. tech hotspots. Understand customer expectations, buyer behavior, and ecosystem dynamics firsthand.

Gain Direct Exposure

A curated agenda of site visits, workshops, expert briefings, and networking events with U.S. buyers, investors, and partners.

Refine & Get Feedback

Guided sessions to adapt messaging and investor pitches for U.S. audiences, culminating in a data-backed readiness decision.

A True Partnership Model

This program is designed as a strategic opportunity that benefits every partner, powered by VarsityScape’s “Academy OS” for a seamless experience.

For Your Institution

Boosts global rankings, attractiveness, and reputation as an innovation leader. Creates a new opportunity for competitive edge .

For Your Students

Unmatched experiential learning, access to U.S. investors and partners, and real-world validation for their ventures.

For VarsityScape & USALP

We provide the EdTech backbone, program management, on-the-ground U.S. expertise, and full Visa support to ensure success.

Funding Your Global Innovation Program

Leading institutions fund these high-impact programs by engaging their entire ecosystem. This isn’t just a cost center; it’s a development opportunity.

Alumni

Engage prominent alumni to sponsor a cohort, often in exchange for naming rights.

Endowments

Utilize university endowment funds earmarked for student development and innovation.

Corporate Sponsors

Partner with banks and telcos who want early access to your top engineering talent.

Grants & Foundations

Utilize institutional grants from bodies like the Ford Foundation, or innovation funds.

Student Scholarships

Offer the program as a prestigious, part-funded scholarship for competition winners.

Student Innovation Fees

Integrate the program as part of tuition or a specific, opt-in student innovation levy.

Top-tier programs, like those at UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center, often blend these models to create self-sustaining ecosystems of innovation. We can help you structure this.

Position Your University as a Global Innovation Leader.

Let’s discuss co-branding a Market Access Program for your top talent. We handle the technology and logistics; you provide the innovators.

Fill out the form to start the conversation, and our partnership team will be in touch.

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