Student-Driven Fund Empowering Budding Venture Capitalists at UConn What started as a "crazy idea" has grown into an innovative new initiative to help students understand the business of investing in startup companies - with real money. While the Student Venture Fund lives in the School of Business, building a cross-disciplinary team is one of the fund’s goals,. (UConn photo/Sean Flynn) Copy Link “As a college student, you get so many crazy ideas, and there’s a million reasons why they shouldn’t happen,” says Noah Sobel-Pressman ’21 (BUS). “But if they actually happen, it could have a real, lasting impact.”