🔹 Explorer Membership ($35K) Designed for organizations interested in exploring Stanford’s cutting-edge technology trends, projects, faculty, and students-and engaging with the broader SystemX ecosystem-without the commitment of focused area research. The Explorer tier is ideal for venture capital firms, private equity groups, startups, and emerging tech companies seeking early insights into breakthrough innovation and academic-industry engagement.
🔹 Associate Membership ($110K) Ideal for organizations looking to initiate research collaboration with Stanford faculty and students, the Associate tier includes one focused research area, identified through joint discussion between Stanford faculty and the member organization. In addition to all the benefits offered by the Explorer tier, Associate members gain engagement in a specific SystemX research area. This tier is well-suited for companies beginning their research engagement journey with Stanford.
🔹 Full Membership ($193K) Designed for organizations ready to deepen their collaboration with Stanford, the Full tier offers two focused research areas. It includes all the benefits of the Associate tier, while enabling broader and more sustained interaction with Stanford faculty, students, and the innovation ecosystem-ideal for companies seeking deep and broad academic engagements.
| PARTICIPATION LEVEL | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| BENEFIT | EXPLORER | ASSOCIATE | FULL |
| Engage with Stanford faculty & researchers | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Stay updated on latest research & innovations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Research Tokens: SystemX works with the company to identify a specific Focus Area or FMA research to be supported with a portion of their membership fee | - | 1 project | 2 projects |
| Advise on research directions | - | - | ✔ |
| Weekly Webinars with Distinguished Lecturers & Real-time Q&A (Industry and Academic luminaries) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Annual SystemX member event (3 days) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| SystemX workshops (twice a year with certain topics) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Faculty-student mixers & info sessions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Exposure on SystemX platforms | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Opportunity to present at events, workshops, or webinars | - | ✔ | ✔ |
| Opportunities to share your work | - | ✔ | ✔ |
| Connect with peers & broader Stanford network | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Company visit to Stanford | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Faculty/student visit to your site | - | ✔ | ✔ |
| Student engagement (mixers, interviews) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Internship & recruitment access1 | - | ✔ | ✔ |
| Visiting scholar opportunity2 | - | - | ✔ |
| Cost of Membership (membership year is aligned with Stanford's academic year) | $35,000 | $110,000 | $193,000 |
1 For PhD students interested in internship opportunities, please visit: the SystemX Internships.
2 Visiting Scholar: Short-term residencies in accordance with Stanford's Visiting Scholar Policies.
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Affiliate Program members may provide additional funding. All research results arising from the use of the additional funding will be shared with all program members and the general public. Affiliate Program members may request the additional funding be used to support a particular area of program research identified on the program’s website, or the program research of a named faculty member, as long as the faculty is identified on the program website as participating in the Affiliate Program. In either instance, the director of the Affiliate Program will determine how the additional funding will be used in the program’s research.
The Stanford SystemX Alliance will use and develop open-source software, and it is the intention of Stanford SystemX Alliance that any software will be released under an open source model.
