Meet builders
Hear directly from founders, UTEP alumni and operators working across industries.
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Entrepreneurship at Hunt Business
The classroom can start an idea. This is where students meet the people, tools and experiences that help move it forward.
Hunt G.O. Foundry brings founders and students together through conversations, hands-on workshops and immersive opportunities beyond campus.
Why the Foundry
Students do not need a company, a pitch deck or even a finished idea to walk in.
Hunt G.O. Foundry is the college's entrepreneurship initiative for students and faculty who want to understand how ideas become ventures. Some arrive ready to build. Others are still looking for the problem they want to solve. The Foundry gives both a place to begin.
Hear directly from founders, UTEP alumni and operators working across industries.
Work through practical tools, emerging technology and the decisions behind a venture.
Enter larger innovation environments, then bring the lessons and connections back to El Paso.
Foundry programming
Follow a founder's path, meet Miners building companies or leave a workshop with something you can use.
Virtual conversations with founders about the choices, failures and turns that shaped what they built.
In-person sessions with UTEP alumni who are building businesses and creating their own paths.
Hands-on sessions built around useful entrepreneurial skills, from rapid prototyping to working with AI.
Entrepreneurship Stories / Fall 2026
Meet founders, operators and investors working across industries. Past dates automatically leave the calendar as the semester moves forward.
Follow Hunt G.O. Foundry on MineTracker for registration, updates and future programming.
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Entrepreneurship journey; ADEE & Colectivo
In-person
Overall journey and GTM
Virtual
Founder journey — sold drone company, April 2024
Virtual
Customer discovery, GTM, founder journey
Virtual
AI skilling, workforce of the future
In-person / Texas Venture Fest
Scaling tech-based, social-impact entrepreneurship
In-person / Texas Venture Fest
Founder journey — Sparc (Techstars NYC '24)
In-person
Handling the sale — understanding how to exit
In-person
Setting goals as an organization / as a team
In-person / Live workshop
Failure, resilience, Entrepreneurpoly
Virtual
Overall journey, hiring, culture
In-person
Journey and thoughts on the energy industry
In-person
Real-world journey — PMF to GTM to scale
Virtual
AI & Marketing (GTM)
Virtual
Fundraising, product development, investment readiness
Virtual
GTM best practices, overall journey
In-person
Overall journey — how to build anything
In-person
Opportunity recognition — the "knowledge corridor"
Fall 2026 programming has concluded. Follow Hunt G.O. Foundry on MineTracker for future events and opportunities.
2025–26 / Early evidence
The first year gives the Foundry a starting point — evidence of student interest, a growing network and more ways to enter entrepreneurship.
Cross-disciplinary participation and the Foundry's first SXSW conference immersion widened the map of who can take part and where entrepreneurial learning can happen.
Conference immersion
In 2026, Hunt G.O. Foundry removed the cost barrier for selected students to enter SXSW's startup and innovation ecosystem. The trip was not the finish line. Students returned with ideas they could put to work at Hunt Business and in El Paso.
Academic pathways
The Foundry sits alongside academic options that give students a structured way to study entrepreneurship, innovation and new venture creation.
Develop the knowledge and skills to create a business or contribute to new ventures inside an existing organization.
A 12-credit minor with pathways for business and nonbusiness majors interested in identifying and pursuing business opportunities.
An applied 12-credit program focused on moving new products and services from idea identification toward commercialization.
From the Foundry
Alejandro Muñoz Mendieta Hunt G.O. FoundryStudents, founders and partners
Attend the next event, share what you have learned or help students enter a part of the entrepreneurial world they have not seen yet.
Attend an event, explore an idea, learn a new tool or meet someone who has already built.
Bring experience into the room through a conversation, workshop, mentorship or connection.
Help students enter entrepreneurial spaces, networks and experiences that might otherwise remain out of reach.