SEASON 1 BEGINS SEPT 29, 2026◆NOV 20 '26: CAMPUS ACTIVATION PHASE DATA CUTOFF·DEC 4 '26: THE 36 PLAYOFF VENTURES ANNOUNCED·JAN 15 '27: PLAYOFF OFFICIALLY STARTS·MAR 5: PLAYOFF SPRINT CUTOFF·MAR 9: CINCINNATI REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP·MAR 10: COLUMBUS REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP·MAR 11: CLEVELAND REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP·MAR 14: SELECTION SUNDAY·MAR 15: STATE CHAMPIONSHIP SPRINTS BEGIN·MAY 5: BLACKOUT. SCORES FROZEN·MAY 19: STATE CHAMPIONSHIP◆
FOUNDING PARTNERS

Your name on what they win.

We're recruiting partners, not startups. Join with a seat in the League. As founding partners, you fund the non-dilutive prize capital, sit on the benches, run Challenges, and field your own Scouts. Partnership tiers range from $10K to $100K+.

Request the founding partner briefing
WHY NOW
AI is collapsing the cost to build. The students starting companies this year will build faster than any class before them.
Ohio's best student founders leave every year, because nothing here gives them a reason to stay.
Whoever builds the first statewide league sets the model. Founding partner is a designation that cannot be earned later.
THE PRIZE BOARD

$575,000 in non-dilutive capital. Every line has a name on it, or it is open.

Real amounts. Real names. Open means open. A founding partner takes a line, and their name goes on it in the product, on stage, and here, for the life of the League. Claim the honors on any open line and we will set up the briefing.

PRIZEAMOUNTPRESENTED BY
State Championship - OhioState Champion, crowned live May 19, 2027$500,000OPENClaim Honors
Regional Championship - North OhioRegional Champion, Cleveland, March 11, 2027$25,000OPENClaim Honors
Regional Championship - South OhioRegional Champion, Cincinnati, March 9, 2027$25,000OPENClaim Honors
Regional Championship - Central OhioRegional Champion, Columbus, March 10, 2027$25,000OPENClaim Honors
WHAT A PARTNER OWNS

A seat, not a logo.

  • Present the Founders Cup.
  • Name a Championship prize.
  • Run a Challenge: your problem, your deadline, your prize, as a quest line every venture in MyVenture can take on.
  • Take a bench on the Selection Committee or the judging panels.
  • Host a Regional Championship at your headquarters.
  • Field a Scout team from your own people.
  • First look at the finalists.
COMPANY STANDINGS

Your people, in the game.

Every founding partner fields a Scout team. Your employees register as Scouts, take their $10,000 in credits, and back the ventures they believe in. Their portfolios roll up to a company standing, the way the university standings roll up today.

Company Standings go live when the Scout market opens on September 29, 2026. Until then, this is the explainer. After that, it is a leaderboard.

WHAT THE LEAGUE NEVER DOES
  • Takes no equity in any venture.
  • Sells no governance seats.
  • Never funds the prize pool from university fees.
THE SEASON ON ONE LINE

Campus Activation Phase. The reveal of the 36. Playoff Week in Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland. Selection Sunday. State Championship, May 19, 2027.

CLAIMING HONORS
Regional Championship - North Ohio
Tell us who to call and we will set up the founding partner briefing for this line.
YOUR NAME
EMAIL
COMPANY OR ORGANIZATION
YOUR ROLE
ANYTHING WE SHOULD KNOW BEFORE THE CALL (OPTIONAL)

A thirty-minute call for your candid read. Founding partner designations close when Season 1 launches.

The briefing

Thirty minutes with the Commissioner. We walk the season, the Prize Board, and the open lines, and we ask for your candid read. No pitch deck read-along.

The deck

The founding partner deck is shared after the briefing, view-only.