Global Venture Lab

Global Venture Lab is a university based business creation platform dedicated to problems worth solving. GVL is empowered by globally connected faculty, students, and alumni of business competence.

The first GVL kickoff took place in the USA, at UC Berkeley, on November 21, 2008, followed by India and IIT Kharagpur, on January 8. The GVL kickoff in Finland, at JYU, on March 23, 2009, marks the birth of the GVL Network.

In Finland, the GVL team is complemented by dedicated individual “knowledge investors” – experienced executives and entrepreneurs – who partner with the faculty and students as part-time co-entrepreneurs in investing knowledge (energy, connections, capacity, and competence) as capital in selected growth ventures.

The GVL community teams up with inventors and entrepreneurs determined to create the best available combination of co-entrepreneurs, financiers and corporate partners to jointly build sustainable businesses to global markets