Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meet Up
Open to aspiring and emerging women and nonbinary entrepreneurs from Barnard and Columbia (current students). No RSVP required! These meetups are a forum for collaboration, peer support, and mentorship from experts, including Athena’s Director of Applied Learning & Entrepreneurship and Athena’s Entrepreneur-In-Residence. Guest experts regularly drop in to share wisdom and insights, sticking around for […]
The Wrangler
Learn more What is The Wrangler? It is a "choose your own adventure" of unique skills workshops — it is 2 days, each divided into 90 minute to 2-hour sessions. At any point there will be 3 workshops running in parallel and you decide which courses you are going to attend.
Columbia Life Science Accelerators: Call for Pre-Proposals
The pre-proposal period is open for Therapeutics/Cancer Therapeutics/Drug Development - Accelerating Cancer Therapeutics (ACT) & Translational Therapeutics Resource (TRx); and Medical Technologies/Devices/Software/Coordination of Care/Remote Medicine - Biomedical Engineering Technology Accelerator (BiomedX formerly Columbia-Coulter program). Applicants must have a full-time faculty appointment, and at least one of the lead investigators should be from Columbia University. Graduate […]
CORE Founderschool
Interested in learning about entrepreneurship? Student entrepreneurship group CORE is running Founderschool, a peer-led class on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Over the course of the semester, you'll learn how to determine the viability of your idea, how to build a minimum viable product, how to conduct the customer discovery process, how to do market analysis, […]
Hacking for Humanity and the Planet Venture Incubator Info Session
RSVP here. This course serves as an incubator for startups making a tangible impact on people or the planet, and is open to interested students across all of Columbia's schools and programs, including undergraduates - join the info session to learn more!
Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meet Up
Open to aspiring and emerging women and nonbinary entrepreneurs from Barnard and Columbia (current students). No RSVP required! These meetups are a forum for collaboration, peer support, and mentorship from experts, including Athena’s Director of Applied Learning & Entrepreneurship and Athena’s Entrepreneur-In-Residence. Guest experts regularly drop in to share wisdom and insights, sticking around for […]
Fast Pitch Competition
Fast Pitch is Columbia’s campus-wide annual elevator pitch (similar to Shark Tank) competition where students and teams have 60 seconds to sell their business ideas to a panel of judges to win up to $5,000 for their idea. Teams are judged on their appeal, conciseness, and completeness. Register for Fast Pitch 2021 updates.
Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meet Up
Open to aspiring and emerging women and nonbinary entrepreneurs from Barnard and Columbia (current students). No RSVP required! These meetups are a forum for collaboration, peer support, and mentorship from experts, including Athena’s Director of Applied Learning & Entrepreneurship and Athena’s Entrepreneur-In-Residence. Guest experts regularly drop in to share wisdom and insights, sticking around for […]
Deadline: 2022 Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program
Apply here. Kleiner Perkins has been at the center of innovation – investing and building companies like Google, Amazon, Square, Twitter, Uber, Genentech, and many more. An important part of building iconic companies is hiring next generation talent. That’s why it started the Kleiner Perkins Fellows program, now in its 11th year. It has 700+ […]
Black New Venture Competition
Apply here. The Black New Venture Competition (BNVC) connects promising early-stage Black founders with resources to develop their ventures into dynamic powerhouses. The competition serves as a launching pad for innovative ventures by providing exposure to capital, mentors, and advisors. Previous winners have gone on to raise notable pre-seed and seed rounds and have been accepted into prestigious accelerators […]