Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Women Entrepreneurship Week 2021
2021 Pitch Competition
Carpe Art

Our Mission
Create. Connect. Collaborate.

The Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation fosters opportunities to create, connect, and collaborate. Our curricula provide a rich, real-life entrepreneurial experience to students; and our rich ecosystem of talent helps us blur the line of where the campus ends and the entrepreneurial community begins by exposing students to mentors and other advisors who are entrepreneurs. Innovation is central in all we do, including in our MIX Lab, which provides tools for 3D printing, designing and making with the aim of transforming our students’ mindsets, and lives.

Student displaying prototype

Startup Montclair
FCE&I Annual Pitch Contest

Startup Montclair, our annual pitch contest, was held virtually on May 12th. This competition identifies the most innovative business ideas and awards cash prizes to winning teams. We were joined by a panel of esteemed judges, including leading entrepreneurs, who awarded prizes to the most compelling concepts.

Meet our Startup Montclair 2021 Winning Teams:

Miniature You: Michael Elices and Raisa Da Silva – winners of $17,000 Prize

Flourish by Sage: Sienna Grant Mitsak – winner of $8,000 Prize

Charlie’s Home Youth Transition Program, LLC: Judi McGuinness – winner of $5,000 Social Impact Prize

Watch the full competition on our YouTube page!

Academics
Go Beyond the Books

Our curriculum is founded on the core principle that problem-solving and creativity — and the ability to shape your creative ideas into successful opportunities — is the key to success in any field. Our classes are experiential and hands on, and teach students real-world skills to succeed in any career. Our students are budding actors, designers, teachers, scientists, inventors and accountants — anyone can be an entrepreneur, which is why our ENTR courses are open to any student of any major.

Concentration in EntrepreneurshipMinor in EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship CertificateInnovation Design CertificateCo-op OpportunitiesHigh School Partnerships

Programs
Printing, Pitching and Practicing

Our center places a premium on innovation design and creative problem-solving. This philosophy is infused in everything we do, but is perhaps demonstrated best in our 3D printing and digitally mediated making initiatives through our MIX Lab.

Our pitch contest, Startup Montclair, is held each spring, with prizes for the winning teams. Anyone who is a student enrolled at Montclair State or an alum is eligible to pitch in the contest.

Women Entrepreneurship Week is celebrated on campus and around the world, to inspire and motivate female founders and women leaders.

MIX LabStartup MontclairWomen Entrepreneurship Week 2021