UMRF Ventures, INC.

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Raymond James builds talent pipeline with new University of Memphis partnership

Oct. 14, 2020 — Financial services firm Raymond James has executed an agreement with University of Memphis’ UMRF Ventures to employ and train students to manage roughly half of the national firm’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) operations, effective October 1, 2020.  Read More

VENTURES Announces Expansion of Call Center

June 28, 2019 - The University of Memphis Research Foundation and its wholly owned subsidiary, UMRF Ventures Inc., held a grand opening celebrating the expansion of their current... Read More

UMRF VENTURES, INC.

UMRF Ventures was founded in 2017, with a grant from FedEx Corporation. Our mission is to help University of Memphis students succeed by creating good-paying part-time jobs on campus, and creating potential career paths with our partner companies after they graduate. Since our incorporation in 2017, we have provided employment opportunities to over 400 students and paid 4 million dollars in student wages. We have helped place over 20 students into full-time careers with our partner companies after they graduated from the University.

Innovation

We are the frontline of a new era in Memphis innovation.

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Partnerships

Changing the way corporations collaborate with academic institutions

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Data Analytics

The FedEx Institute is a strategic partner in the overall success of UMRF Ventures

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Our Mission

We are all about Student Success!

Our mission is to aid student success, by providing good paying part-time jobs for University of Memphis students, on our campuses. This helps students meet their financial obligations, stay in school, graduate on time, and prepares them for careers after they graduate. 

UMRF Ventures works with partner companies, and we develop customized service companies that employ our students, and establishes a talent pipeline for those partners to hire our students when they graduate.

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