Deadline: Columbia Venture Competition Technology Challenge
Columbia Engineering provides funding in the Technology Challenge to students and teams focused in tech, innovation, products, etc. All entries to the Technology Challenge must include business models based on a solid foundation of applied, solution-focused, technology innovation. Judges favored novel tech over novel applications of existing tech. Submissions had to focus on product development, […]
Columbia Innovation Forum: Perfect Your Pitch!
Columbia Engineering's February forum will feature pitch coaches who are angel investors and venture capitalists. Apply using this Google form by February 7th for consideration as a priority application, and by February […]
Deadline: BlocPower Columbia Climate Challenge
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 […]
Hacking for Humanity and the Planet Venture Incubator
The deadline to apply for the Hacking for Humanity and the Planet Venture Incubator course is coming up on Friday, February 18. This course is open to students across all of Columbia's schools and programs (including undergraduates) who are interested in social, environmental, health, and other impact ventures that are addressing problems affecting people and the planet.
Columbia’s Program for Diversity & Inclusion in Commercialization & Entrepreneurship (DICE)
Applications due Feb. 21, 2022. For more information, check out the program page and contact techventures@columbia.edu with questions. Columbia’s Program for Diversity and Inclusion in Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (DICE) aims to support early-career individuals who identify as being from traditionally underrepresented groups in science entrepreneurship and commercialization as defined by the NIH. Building on the success of the first DICE cycle in […]
Ask Me Anything (AMA): Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship
REGISTER Join on Thursday, February 24th to learn about entrepreneurship through a multidisciplinary and cross functional lens. Guests include Erin McNulty, a junior studying computer science and working in tech entrepreneurship, Daniela Duron Garcia, a 2020 graduate currently with the mechanical engineering lab and co-founder of start up FLOW, and Maya Joudi, a senior with a background in […]
Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meetups
These meetups, open to aspiring and emerging women and nonbinary entrepreneurs from Barnard and Columbia, are a forum for collaboration, peer support, and mentorship from experts, including Athena’s EIR. Guest experts regularly drop in to share wisdom and insights, sticking around for one-on-one conversations with student entrepreneurs. Learn more about Athena Entrepreneurs here.
Deadline: Brown Institute Innovation Challenge in Journalism, Media, and Technology
This Challenges encourages new tech-based or tech-enabled forms of media — these might make novel uses of computer vision, AI, NLP, ML, data visualization or even VR/AR to create, communicate, and interpret content. A recorded information session can be found here. Judging criteria will include rewarding teams who are able to provide empirical evidence that: […]
CORE’s Still We Rise: Black Student Entrepreneurship Panel
This event with Black founders from Columbia and Barnard includes Yelissa Lopez and Stephen Mgbemeje from Upcomers, Zusi Inegbeniki from Millenium Angel Marketing Agency, Mazen Alsafi from Barriers, and Shaniqua Davis from Exclusive Beauty Hair Salon. This event is the third installment within CORE Elevate's Black History Month series entitled Still We Rise. Despite the […]
Funding Deadline: Tamer Fund for Social Ventures, Spring 2022
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures provides seed grants to nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid early-stage Columbia University-affiliated social and environmental ventures. There are two deadlines for applications for the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures: the fall application deadline is August 15 at 11:59 p.m. ET, and the spring application deadline is March 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Funding will be made […]