Every year, the Columbia Startup Lab in Soho selects 71 alumni entrepreneurs from all of Columbia’s schools into this coworking space with dedicated mentorship and programming.
Congratulations to these companies for making it into the 2024-2025 Cohort!
3Wise Gifts
Maya Jones, CBS
3Wise is a premium faith based gifting company inspired by the biblical 3 wise men who gave gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Abisko
Rimas Gulbinas, SEAS
Built by industry leaders to empower real estate owners, investors, and managers to comply with evolving regulations and advance towards a netzero future.
Absinthe Labs (formerly Graphiti)
Andrew Magid, CC
Ketan Jog, SEAS
Noel Turlington, SEAS
We power incentive distribution for Web3 Products.
Arth – Art of Health
Ritika Patni, CBS
Arth is a wellness brand blending ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern innovation to offer accessible, evidence-backed products and services for holistic well-being.
Bucephalus
Nicholas DeGiacomo, SEAS
The Supply Chain OS for a Greener Future.
Coupr
Julian Janna, CBS
Smart cart screens for personalized supermarket shopping.
Daps
Jake Klores, CC
A social platform for professional and collegiate athletes to monetize exclusive content and experiences directly to fans.
Edessa Growth Venture
Resit Melik, CBS
Acquire and tech enable business services (e.g. mortgage servicing).
Egba Ake
Adekanla Dedeke, CBS
Egba Ake creates handbags inspired by Nigerian design, arts, and culture.
ESG Base
Levent Yungul, CBS
Fleet-Power Inc.
Jeff Vockrodt, CBS
Our platform facilitates the transition to electric school buses by dynamically managing charging and supporting other products and services, such as financing and carbon credits.
First Aid Therapy
William Baek, CBS
Our startup is a mental health service that aims to facilitate access to culturally diverse therapists and resources for internationals and immigrants in the U.S., lowering barriers and providing guidance through the search process.
Fitmakesenz
Asenso Ampim, CC
A digital fitness platform that provides monthly personalized workout programs and one-on-one video support from healthcare, fitness, nutrition, and mental wellness experts.
Folio
Amy Tang, SEAS
Folio is a digital front desk solution powered by AI that automates guest management for the $120B short-term rental (STR) industry.
Future Reference
Claire Illmer, CBS
Vince Bell, CBS
Peer-to-peer luxury resale built for the age of digital ID.
Groverton
Dustin Martelo, SIPA
Financing and managing single family homes on behalf of nonprofits and low-income families
InstaLabel
AadilMehdi Sanchawala, SEAS
Ayman Talkani, SEAS
Ditto is an AI data platform that creates production-grade voluminous, privacy-preserving datasets by utilizing a combination of AI with humans in the loop.
IVY Engineering Group
Samira Ayati, SEAS
IVY Engineering Group, a WBE, DBE, and SBE-certified firm in New York, specializes in construction management and engineering services for both private and government projects, delivering precision and excellence.
Juliette
Louis Zhao, SEAS
The Interface to 3D Web on Spatial Computing Platforms.
KanduPay, Inc.
David Roosevelt, SEAS
KanduPay, Inc. is a start-up dynamic cryptocurrency exchange, e-Wallet, and remittance solution that facilitates and eases the exchange of fiat & digital currencies, financial transactions, and wallet services across market channels for its platform users
Legislative Llama
Marielle Villar Martiney, SIPA
Legislative Llama is an AI-powered digital platform that activates Gen Z & Millennials’ political participation and advocacy for social & environmental justice.
Lemon Juice
Rafat Nigar, Barnard
AI powered marketplace connecting emerging creators and micro-business to their communities.
Local Civics
Beverly Leon, CBS
Caitlin Gallagher, CBS
Local Civics streamlines civics, college, and career education for K-12 schools.
LogTrack
Hidayat Hamidov, CBS
AI COPILOT for Logistics.
Meadow
Alfredo Brillembourg, CC
Jonathan Rich, SEAS
The first fintech platform for higher education.
MOBY
Yoni Ronn, SPS
MOBY is a smart closed-loop filter designed to capture and upcycle petroleum-based microfibers from the laundering of synthetic clothes before they pollute the environment, enter food supply chains and affect people’s health.
Momentuum
Olivia Schulist, MPH
Nonprofit dedicated to facilitating public health discussions and innovation development.
Mushroom Packaging
Thomas van Haren, CBS
Mushroom Packaging is a compostable protective packaging made with mycelium and agricultural waste to replace EPS/styrofoam.
Network Tree
Carly Doyle, CBS
Network Tree is a personal CRM tool that helps strategically organize and utilize your connections in a more efficient way through reminders, contact grouping, AI search, and note sections features.
New Freedom Pasta
Anjali Dutta, CBS
Purveyor of fresh pasta, artfully crafted by hand by people reclaiming their lives in recovery from addiction.
Nurture Buddy
Kristina Pogue , CBS
A childcare software app enhancing communication, connection, and care between childcare providers and families everywhere.
OneRange
Steve Gilman, CBS
Houtan Fanisalek, SEAS
Range is a personalized lifelong learning technology platform.
Openvest
Justin Kuyper, CBS
Positive financial portfolio constructs, all available seamlessly on one easy-to-use interface.
Opulence Entertainment
Owen Odigie, CBS
A media and entertainment company focused on connecting people through authentic storytelling in film, television and live experiences.
Pelican
Alexandra Bono, CBS
Pelican offers a digital platform designed to help your loved ones reach their savings goals.
Ploomber
Ido Michael, DSI
We’re the Heroku for Data Science. We help data scientists build faster and deploy their work into production without a single code change.
Poseidon Council
David Steinfels, SIPA
Maritime consulting group supporting innovative and sustainable open water and deep sea energy solutions projects.
Retroloop
Amanda Beare, CBS
Retroloop is a furniture retail company that is reshaping our relationship with the pieces in our homes, through the prioritization of sustainability and circularity in all aspects of the business.
Riskify
Shayan Dashmiz, CBS
Cyrus Moazami, CBS
Providing peer to peer reinsurance for risk transfer.
Rivrb
Calvin Goah, SEAS
Rivrb is an AI & human-powered system that helps users quickly and accurately determine the credibility and accuracy of online information.
Rockhopper
Sebastian Perez Lawrence, CBS
Rockhopper is an enterprise planning management cloud solution for collaborative business case modeling.
Rubicon Robotics
Avery Schonberger, CBS
Rubicon Robotics develops robots to autonomously film athletes (starting with swimmers) and complementary software to analyze their technique.
Shaker
Rafael Canario, CBS
MatchEd is a Lifelong Lifewide Learning Management System that links EdTechs in one platform.
Sharp Performance
Andrew Sakmar, CBS
Benjamin Curley, CBS
Mental training and wellness platform for professionals in high-risk occupations.
StorySavor
Joseph Quaderer, Journalism
StorySavor is a biography writing services company.
Synvect Inc.
Pooja Patel, MPH
Bioengineering solution that leverages CRISPR to eradicate vector-borne disease.
Tau Finance
Kiyan Mohebbizadeh, SEAS
Tau enables on-chain legal enforceability through regulatory licensing for decentralized finance applications.
Tech4Good
Tushar Badhwar, DSI
We use AI to ship integrations between open source software.
Terra
Raymond Heimann, CC
Tom Higgins, CC
Revolutionizing ‘minimulti’ real estate to bring authentic workforce housing back to the heart of America at scale.
Toscana USA
Cindy Salazar, CBS
Toscana USA is a direct to consumer brand offering high quality handcrafted leather shoes and accessories for men and women made in Florence, Italy.
Treo
Karl Kamdem, DSI
A digital wallet for the African diaspora to manage their money back home.
Understory Technologies Corp
David Fine, CC
Eric Shapiro, CC
Understory’s mission is to build modern software that will eliminate the manual data entry work that financial analysts do every day.
UpdateAI
Joshua Schachter, SEAS
Conversational intelligence platform (on top of Zoom) that helps customer teams scale white-glove relationships with their SaaS enterprise clients.
Verteel
Brian Monga, CBS
Verteel empowers businesses to deliver high-value goods faster using unmanned aerial systems.
Zuumis
Jade Cueva Martin, CBS
SaaS for Dog Daycare businesses.