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Inside this ecosystem · 2 linked sources

Delaware State University in Dover is the state's public land-grant HBCU. The College of Business operates CURE, a downtown Dover small-business incubator, and the Delaware Center for Enterprise Development, a community training office since 1992. Those pages describe community entrepreneurs rather than a campus student residency. Separately, university news documents the first Innovation Venture Summit, co-hosted with Capital One in April 2025, where student teams pitched and DSU undergraduates on the Agribonum team received $75,000. The captured story calls that summit the first and does not confirm a later cycle.

This listing was compiled from public university pages on October 8, 2026. It is unclaimed and has not been confirmed by the school or a program director.

Include. Delaware's public HBCU has a community incubator and a documented undergraduate pitch award.. Confidence is medium because the incubator page does not show a standing student cohort and the summit's later cycles are not confirmed on a captured DSU page.

How we know this: the figures on this page come from the linked sources (last verified 2026-10-08); what those sources do not state is left unknown.

At a glance

Indexed programs

3

2 currently active

Top direct funding

$75,000

Innovation Venture Summit

Equity

Equity terms unknown

Program mix

3

Incubator · Small Business Support · Pitch Competition

Programs to explore

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3 programs indexed

Pitch Competition

Innovation Venture Summit

Pitch Competition

Also: Innovation Venture

$75,000

funding range

Direct fundingEquity unknownone time
Last activity
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Participants
Undergraduate Students
Verification
Unverified

Incubator

From students

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Founders at this school

Funding and Equity

The Innovation Venture story says the summit awarded $250,000 to student entrepreneurs and that Agribonum, a DSU undergraduate team, received $75,000. CURE and DCED do not publish check sizes. Equity is not stated.

Recent Activity

The Innovation Venture news story is dated April 15, 2025. The College of Business centers page was public on October 8, 2026.

Known Startups and Winners

Agribonum, the agricultural-technology team named in the April 2025 story.

Research gaps & things to verify

Missing Information

Whether Innovation Venture recurred, whether CURE serves current students, and equity terms.

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News & articles

2 news articles and official sources documenting entrepreneurship programs, winners, and activity at Delaware State University.

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