For Universities

A safe, sanctioned way for your students to build together.

Your students are already cutting equity deals on a handshake. We turn that messy, invisible activity into structured, hands-on learning, with the labor, securities, and IP guardrails built in.

Students collaborating around a table.

An internship engine that runs itself, with no corporate partners to chase.

Your student founders hire their classmates safely, students get real work in their field, and your institution gets the visibility and the compliance you don't have today.

Hands-on learning, at scale

A self-sustaining engine that pairs student founders with student talent, without you chasing down outside companies.

Built to stay compliant

Students join as contractors on real projects, equity follows each startup's own rules, and a campus law clinic checks the agreements.

Protects student ownership

Founder-friendly templates and clear IP guidance, so students keep what they build instead of signing it away by accident.

Less risk, more visibility

Bring the dorm-room handshake economy into the open, with fewer messy disputes that pull the institution in.

A win for your law school

A steady stream of real, for-credit transactional work for an entrepreneurship or transactional clinic.

Real students only

School-email verification keeps the community genuine and keeps out the scams that plague open marketplaces.

How a pilot works

A low-risk way to try it.

1

Find a faculty champion

A sponsor in your entrepreneurship center or accelerator hosts the pilot under a program you already run.

2

Run a small, closed pilot

Around ten student startups, one semester, free, in a setting you control.

3

Loop in the clinic and tech transfer

A campus law clinic checks the agreements and your tech-transfer office signs off on the IP side.

4

See the results, then grow

We share what happened, matches made, projects shipped, students engaged, disputes avoided, then expand from there.

0
corporate partners to chase
Verified
students only
Clinic
checked agreements
Your
IP rules respected
The careful part

The four things your counsel will ask about.

Here's the short version. We're happy to walk your team and counsel through the details.

Labor

Students are contractors on real projects, not unpaid labor, with the product nudging things to stay that way.

Securities

Each startup follows its own rules for compensating people with equity. The platform never issues securities or brokers deals.

Taxes

Clean templates, a reminder before the big tax deadline, and a pointer to a qualified professional.

IP

Clear guidance that respects your institution's IP rules, with tech-transfer sign-off where it's needed.

Course credit

Faculty award credit through the structures you already have. The platform only sources projects and tracks the work.

Data

We never sell or monetize cap-table or student data, and we never contact a startup's investors.

"Universities already invest in student startups. We add the missing piece, a safe way for those startups to hire their own classmates."

Why we built MyCampusStartups
Questions

Administrator FAQ.

Is this compliant?

It's designed to be. Students join as contractors, each startup follows its own rules for equity compensation, IP guidance respects your policies, and a campus law clinic checks the agreements. We're software and education, not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice.

Does this create liability for the university?

Our goal is to reduce it. We take an informal economy that already exists and make it documented, standardized, and clinic-checked, which is meant to mean fewer messy disputes, not more.

Who awards academic credit?

Your faculty do, through the structures you already have, like independent study and capstones. The platform only sources projects and tracks the work; it never awards credit itself.

Do you take equity in student companies?

No. The platform takes zero ownership. Students keep what they build.

What does a pilot cost?

The pilot is free. We just ask for a faculty champion and a small group. Licensing is a later conversation, only once a pilot has proven its worth.

Let's talk

Bring it to your campus.

Tell us about your program and we'll set up a demo with your team and walk through a low-risk pilot.