Teach what can't be taught in lectures.

EUVIS connects students with founders, operators, academics, alumni, investors, designers, engineers, and specialists who can offer practical judgement.

Students can learn frameworks in class. But judgement, timing, restraint, focus, resilience, and execution are harder to teach. EUVIS invites mentors to help students see what serious builders see.

Who mentors

Practitioners across every discipline.

Founders
Operators
Product leaders
Designers
Engineers
Investors
Academics
Lawyers
Finance professionals
Alumni
Sector specialists

Ways to contribute

Give as much or as little time as suits you.

1. Give a talk
2. Run a workshop
3. Join a critique panel
4. Mentor a team
5. Support a showcase
6. Help students understand an industry
7. Offer office hours
8. Review prototypes or pitches

Mentor participation is educational. EUVIS does not ask mentors to provide regulated financial advice, legal advice, or investment recommendations.

EUVIS is education-only and does not provide investment advice or regulated financial services.

EUVIS — Edinburgh University Ventures & Innovation Society

Edinburgh University Ventures & Innovation Society — where student ideas become prototypes, pitches, and real opportunities.

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EUVIS — Edinburgh University Ventures & Innovation Society — is an educational student society. EUVIS is not an investment fund, broker, financial adviser, investment adviser, placement agent, or fundraising intermediary. EUVIS does not provide investment advice, financial promotion, fundraising advice, or regulated financial services. Showcase recognition is educational only. Where appropriate, EUVIS may signpost enquiries to student showcase presenters, but EUVIS does not endorse, recommend, solicit, arrange, or facilitate investments.

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