Weinstock Venture Investment Fund

The Weinstock Venture Investment Fund is specifically designed to help York College students and recent alumni take their business from idea to implementation. Through funding, education, mentorship, and access to angel investors, students will get all the resources they need to think like entrepreneurs and make their businesses a reality — all while still enrolled in school!

Here's How it Works 

York College students and recent alumni interested in applying to the fund can expect to go through 3 steps:

Step 1: Apply, pitch, and if selected, receive seed funding (up to $5,000!)

Step 2: Participate in the J.D. Brown Center McNees Accelerator to help your business get off the ground

Step 3: Potential to receive additional funding

Fiction Formulations and Services
Benbruno Nkapbela '22
“This fund gave me the tools and publicity to introduce my business to the community. The mentors and staff that I worked with gave me the confidence to build my idea into something bigger.”

Jester Sedano Productions
Jester Sedano '23

Kram
Kaitlin Dannenberg '25

Owning My Blackness (OMB)
Briaunna Embry-Banks '22
"I am honored to be a recipient of the Weinstock Venture Investment Fund. The funding is giving me the opportunity to be successful."

Lehr Labs
Evan Lehr '20
“The contacts we made from the WVIF board were invaluable and it was definitely worth participating in the pitch. The funding and mentorship mean a lot to us given that it will help us accelerate our innovation and drive our business development."

Benny's Hot Sauce
Ben Horwitz '27 and Matt Medvedovski '27
"Thanks to WVIF, what started as a dream is now a reality, and it continues to grow stronger every day!"