Hacking for Humanity and the Planet Venture Incubator
2022-02-18
The deadline to apply for the Hacking for Humanity and the Planet Venture Incubator course [B8527] 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.

Ask Me Anything (AMA): Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship
2022-02-24 18:00 - 19:00 UTC
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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 global entrepreneurship and experience with the Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs. Attend this session to hear firsthand accounts of entrepreneurship at Columbia – through senior capstones, club projects, passion projects, hackathons, and competitions – to create spaces for anyone seeking to make an impact.

Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meetups
2022-02-24 18:30 - 19:30
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
2022-02-25
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:

The venture is financially viable
The solution is practically deployable
The impact can be accurately measured
The value proposition is compelling to the audience/users/customers and funders/investors
Teams do not have to be incorporated or legally formed to compete or win, but winning teams will need to incorporate — as a for-profit or not-for-profit — before receiving prize money.

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 mont, the deadlines for participating, and the links to applications.

CORE's Still We Rise: Black Student Entrepreneurship Panel
2022-02-25 14:00 - 15:00
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 challenges that come with being a Black entrepreneur, this series aims to highlight the presence of Black brilliance with the hopes of inspiring underrepresented founders to pursue and succeed in their entrepreneurial goals.

Funding Deadline: Tamer Fund for Social Ventures, Spring 2022
2022-03-01
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 available to around seven ventures each year (three to four ventures each cycle).
Learn more and apply.

Applications Open for the Columbia Startup Lab 2022-2023 Cohort
2022-03-01
Applications for the 2022-2023 Cohort of the Columbia Startup Lab are now OPEN!
Columbia alumni, graduating by June 1, 2022 and including Teachers College and Barnard, are eligible to apply.
Submit an application here.

Application Deadline: Healthcare Venture Day Pitch Competition
2022-03-01 08:00 - 17:00
Open to all CU graduate and undergraduate students, Healthcare Venture Day showcases the passionate and talented student founders across Columbia University, featuring pitches of their innovative, world-changing companies solving the toughest problems, with an ambition to scale across healthcare industry. Apply by March 1 to be considered for the competition: The winning student/team will receive a $5,000 cash reward!
Columbia Healthcare Venture Day will be held on April 15.

Open Studio Hours
2022-03-01 17:00 - 19:00
During Studio Hours, student teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the 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.

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 and 3 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

Athena Entrepreneurs Weekly Meetups
2022-03-03 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-10 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-24 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-31 06:30 - 19:30
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 – join at the Athena Center in the Milstein Building.

Applications Open: Startup Bootcamp
2022-03-04
Join Columbia Engineering’s Lean Launchpad virtual course to test your idea in the market! Participants in this free, two-week course will receive entrepreneurship training and mentor support as they talk with customers to identify the best product-market fit using the lean launchpad methodology.
Faculty, staff, postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate student researchers may apply with a team of one to three people. Applicants are expected to be available for all sessions. Teams that successfully complete this bootcamp may become eligible to apply for the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Teams program, which includes a $50,000 grant.
Admissions are rolling.

Accelerator Application Deadline: Project 2.8 | Spring 2022
2022-03-11
Project Two.Eight provides female founders access to early-stage startup support. Intended to support new and current founders, it offers a proprietary program that helps entrepreneurs through the earliest stages of creating a company: Idea evaluation, value proposition, and customer identification.
This program includes hands-on workshops, classroom instruction, and mentorship focused on the specific needs of female entrepreneurs.
This year’s accelerator will be accepting 10 startups with founders from the Columbia University ecosystem that are pre-seed and in need of this type of assistance. The program will begin in April 2022 and will last for 6-8 weeks, culminating in a pitch session to investors. If interested, please apply at: https://lnkd.in/gXRFiw5u.

Spring Break - No Events
2022-03-14 - 2022-03-18

Social Enterprise Conference, Capital for Good, Spring 2022
2022-03-24
Hosted by the Tamer Center at Columbia Business School, this event, located in the finance capital of the world, provides a unique opportunity for attendees to tap into the vibrant ecosystem of capital for impact through the lens of philanthropy, impact investing, ESG, and social venture and business examples. Social impact leaders in business, government, nonprofit, and philanthropy will speak to how they are changing the way we think about how capital is sourced and used to generate sustainable solutions to global, systemic challenges. Attendees will hear from speakers about where opportunities exist to pursue future careers of impact on both the financing and implementation sides of social impact capital.

Application Deadline: Columbia Startup Lab 2022-2023 Cohort
2022-03-28 00:00 - 23:59
