DUhatch connects enterprising students with mentors from faculty and industry, giving them office space, and facilitating business development to help solve the myriad problems a fledgling venture faces.

Welcome to the DUhatch Student Business Incubator


DUhatch connects enterprising students with mentors from faculty and industry, giving them office space, and facilitating business development to help solve the myriad problems a fledgling venture faces.  DUhatch will help to turn innovative ideas into innovative businesses and social ventures. The goal of DUhatch is educational. Entrepreneurship is an area where the most learning occurs through doing and DUhatch is intended to provide this vital experiential component to complement the wide range of entrepreneurship support (curricular and co-curricular) that the university offers.

This focus on students and education sets DUhatch apart from most commercial business accelerators.  The aim of the DUhatch student business incubator is to educate and to make entrepreneurship a more integral part of the Duke experience. In this regard, DUhatch is envisioned as a truly multidisciplinary effort that brings together diverse areas of campus including technology, business, law, and medicine.  With the Duke strategy of knowledge in the service to society, DUhatch is the obvious next step to take. It will allow the university to couple numerous educational activities related to entrepreneurship, engineering, business and law to the real world by facilitating new venture formation.