Deadline: Columbia-CareOne Healthcare Innovation Challenge
2021-10-01
APPLY HERE Deadline Oct. 1st — Grand Prize $25,000 —
American healthcare is undergoing unprecedented change driven by rapid innovations in technology, care delivery, and services all responding to changing demographics, inequality, pandemics, politicized policy, retail healthcare, and consumerism. Calling All Healthcare Innovators and Entrepreneurs. Applications from startups or from individuals/teams developing IP with commercial potential will be considered. This challenge focuses on innovations in the non-regulated healthcare space (no pharma or class three devices, please). Examples of eligible categories include: Healthcare Delivery and Services, Diagnostics, Memory Loss and Cognitive Decline, Social Determinants of Health, Class 1 and 2 Medical Devices, Remote Care and Telemedicine, Medication Management, Wellness, Substance Abuse, Nutrition, Education, Public Health, and Policy, Content and Communications, and Age-in-Place solutions. More examples HERE.

Deadline: StartupColumbia Challenge
2022-02-17
The StartupColumbia Challenge is the largest of the six challenges and covers all categories of business models and industries. We’ll take not-for-profit, for-profit, and anything in between. We’ll take a look at Food or Fashion, Medical Devices or Healthcare Delivery solutions, widget models or service offerings, fledgling or pre-IPO ventures. Bring it on!
Judges looked for documented proof — not unproven assumptions — of each venture’s potential long-term viability. This proof came in the form of qualitative and quantitative market surveys, customer development interview summaries, current customer-acquisition metrics, revenue, and/or unit shipment counts.
There’s more information at StartupColumbia.org – please check that site for eligibility and timeline information, made available when you click on the name of the challenge you are interested in – but here’s a quick run down of this and other tracks that are accepting applications this month with the deadlines for participating and lines to applications.

Deadline: BlocPower Columbia Climate Challenge
2022-02-18
The BlocPower Columbia Climate Challenge is focused on decarbonizing buildings and physical infrastructure with a sense of environmental justice. Got a sustainability solution with a smart-city, smart-building, clean tech, or green construction application? Is your team working on carbon emission reduction or measurement? How about clean urban transportation, photovoltaics, or energy storage solutions? Show us your ideas.
There’s more information at StartupColumbia.org – please check that site for eligibility and timeline information, made available when you click on the name of the challenge you are interested in – but here’s a quick run down of this and other tracks that are accepting applications this month, the deadlines for participating, and links to applications.

Open Studio Hours
2022-03-02 13:30 - 15:30, 2022-03-07 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-03-08 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-03-09 13:30 - 15:30, 2022-03-21 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-03-22 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-03-23 13:30 - 15:30, 2022-03-28 12:00 - 13:30 UTC and 12 more dates
During Studio Hours, student teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio. This is a time to discuss ideation, prototyping, customer discovery, and next steps for your venture.
Students are also welcome to use the studio space for working independently on their entrepreneurial projects.
No need to RSVP! Learn more and get the address here.

Columbia Startup Lab Virtual Open House | Spring 2022
2022-03-03 18:00 - 19:00
The Columbia Startup Lab opens its seats to a new group of Columbia-founded startups this June, and applications go live on March 1! Join us for a virtual Open House on March 3 for a chance to meet the team, see the space, and hear from a few resident ventures.
RSVP

Summer 2022 Open Studio Hours - By Appointment
2022-06-01
Are you a Columbia, Barnard, or Teachers College student with an idea, and want to get personal design thinking feedback from the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio? During Studio Hours, teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the Studio.
Summer Open Studio Hours will be made available by appointment: please email designstudio@columbia.edu.
Regular Open Studio Hours will return in Fall 2023.

Columbia Venture Competition is OPEN (Deadlines extended!)
2023-02-23
Welcome to the 10th Annual Columbia Venture Competition (CVC)! The CVC is a series of Challenges, or business plan competitions, for Columbia’s thriving entrepreneurship community. Every year, alumni judges evaluate competitors in six different challenges. Each has its own focus, save for the StartupColumbia Challenge which is open to any kind of business model, including not-for-profit and social enterprises. Check out the available tracks, awards, and eligibility here.

Rolling Admission: Columbia Startup Lab Uptown
2023-08-01
Columbia Startup Lab (CSL) Uptown provides a host of campus-wide programming, open working space, mentorship, and connection to other entrepreneurship nodes around the University for aspiring student founders currently enrolled at Columbia and Barnard. This is a way to onboard into the Columbia entrepreneurship ecosystem throughout the year.

Programming resumes in the Fall.
Read more and submit an application here.

Rolling Admission: Columbia Startup Lab Morningside
2023-09-01, 2023-10-01
Columbia Startup Lab (CSL) Morningside provides a host of campus-wide programming, open working space, mentorship, and connection to other entrepreneurship nodes around the University for aspiring student founders currently enrolled at Columbia and Barnard. This is a way to onboard into the Columbia entrepreneurship ecosystem throughout the year.
Read more and submit an application here.

Rolling Admission: Columbia Startup Lab Uptown
2023-11-01
Columbia Startup Lab (CSL) Uptown provides a host of campus-wide programming, open working space, mentorship, and connection to other entrepreneurship nodes around the University for aspiring student founders currently enrolled at Columbia and Barnard. This is a way to onboard into the Columbia entrepreneurship ecosystem throughout the year.
Read more and submit an application here.
