USC Marshall Greif Incubator
About USC Marshall Greif Incubator
Accelerates USC student and alumni entrepreneurs through experiential education, mentorship, and community, taking founders from feasibility work through customers, a tested business model, distribution, team-building, and investment preparation.
A non-profit, no-equity startup incubator for USC-affiliated founders, run through the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC's Marshall School of Business.
Paul Orlando
Director & Adjunct Professor
Co-founded and operated Hong Kong's first startup accelerator, ran an environmental tech startup accelerator in Rome, and an online community health incubator. Teaches Growth Hacking and Venture Initiation at USC Marshall; holds a BA from Cornell and an MBA from Columbia.
Participating companies have been acquired, raised funding, run successful crowdfunding campaigns, received NSF grants, and won USC competitions including the New Seed Venture Competition, Stevens Student Innovator Showcase, the Min Family Challenge, Maseeh Prize, and Silicon Beach.