University - First Day of Classes
2022-09-06

Open Studio Hours
2022-10-03 12:00 - 14:00 UTC
Are you a Columbia, Barnard, or Teachers College student with an idea and want to get feedback from the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio at Columbia Startup Lab Morningside? Are you interested in learning more about how human centered design can help you get unstuck on class or work projects? Do you or your team just need a creative environment to work in?
If the answer is yes to any of those questions, please come to Open Studio Hours.

Open Studio Hours
2022-10-06 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-17 12:00 - 14:00, 2022-10-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-24 12:00 - 14:00, 2022-10-27 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-31 12:00 - 14:00, 2022-11-14 12:00 - 14:00 and 3 more dates
Are you a Columbia, Barnard, or Teachers College student with an idea and want to get feedback from the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio at Columbia Startup Lab Morningside? Are you interested in learning more about how human centered design can help you get unstuck on class or work projects? Do you or your team just need a creative environment to work in?
If the answer is yes to any of those questions, please come to Open Studio Hours: Room 430 at Riverside Church (entrances at 91 Claremont Avenue or 645 W 120th Street).

Design Your Future - Fall 2022
2022-10-11 19:00 - 21:30
Open to all current Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College students.
REGISTER HERE
The future can feel uncertain. What if you discover that your internship isn’t the right fit? What happens if you start to drift away from the things you feel passionate about? What trajectory is right for you?
We created Design Your Future to sort through these types of questions. In this workshop, students will learn to apply design in order to better navigate career and life choices in school and beyond.
DYF will meet in the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio:
Tuesday, October 11th — 7:00pm to 9:30pm ET.
This not for credit program is available to all current students, including Teachers College and Barnard. Plus, there will be coffee and snacks! If you are interested, please fill out the registration form.
We will get back to everyone with directions on Monday, October 10th.
Learn more about DYF in this Forbes feature!

Venture Capitalist Panel
2022-10-12 15:00 - 16:15
Open to all current Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College students.
Building a start-up? Come learn how to fundraise from top venture capitalists!
Join Columbia Engineering at Davis Auditorium for a talk with VC from Floodgate, Firstmark Capital, and more.
Speakers:
ANN MIURA-KO: CO FOUNDING PARTNER FLOODGATE
Ann Miura-Ko is a Co-founding Partner at Floodgate. A repeat member of the Forbes Midas List and the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide, Ann was also named the “Most Powerful Woman in Startups” by Forbes.
Ann is well-known in Silicon Valley as a pioneer investor in the pre-seed and seed stage companies because of her background as a Ph.D. in math modelling of infosec at Stanford. Ann has also made significant investments in consumer (commerce, curation), marketplaces, and software for SMBs and solopreneurs. Some of Ann’s investments include Lyft (where she is still a board member), Xamarin, Monthly, Popshop, Poparazzi, Emotive, and Refinery29.
Ann is also a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford, a co- director of the Mayfield Fellows Program at Stanford, a member of the Board of Trustees for Yale University, and a cofounding member of All Raise, a nonprofit committed to improving diversity in funders and founders.
MATT TURCK: PARTNER FIRSTMARK CAPITAL
Matt Turck is a French American technology entrepreneur and investor. A partner at NYC-based venture capital firm FirstMark Capital, he invests across a broad range of early-stage Internet, software and hardware startups. Prior to FirstMark, he was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures, the investment and incubation arm of Bloomberg LP, which he helped start. Prior to his investing career, Matt was an entrepreneur and the co-founder of TripleHop Technologies, a venture-backed enterprise search software startup that was acquired by Oracle and became the cornerstone of Oracle’s initial foray into search technologies.
Matt is passionate about building communities, and organizes Data Driven NYC (a 17,000 person group that focuses on data and AI) and Hardwired NYC (a 7,000 person group that focuses on frontier/deep tech). Over the years, Data Driven NYC and Hardwired NYC have featured as speakers about 500 of the top CEOs, CTOs, VCs and senior executives in their respective areas
SPENCER CRAWLEY: CO FOUNDER & PARTNER FIRSTMINUTE CAPITAL
Spencer Crawley is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of firstminute capital. The fund currently has $325m AUM, a team of 20, and invests at the seed-stage across technology sectors, focused on Europe and the US. The firstminute investor base includes over 120+ Unicorn founders of technology businesses. Spencer sits on the board of Generation Home, a UK digital mortgage lender, and is a Director of the NYSE-listed Tailwind International, a SPAC platform which has launched three public companies with a combined market cap of over $1bn. Spencer started his career at Goldman Sachs in Moscow, before becoming the first hire at DMC Partners, a Special Opportunities fund spun out of Goldman Sachs. The firm was founded by Goldman Sach’s Global Co-Head of Trading & Securities, the Global Co-Head of Strategies & Structuring, and the CEO of the Russia & CIS business, alongside the former Head of TPG of Europe and CFO of Index Ventures. This was followed by an MBA at INSEAD and a stint at AppDirect.

CSL Uptown Member Mixer
2022-10-13 18:00 - 20:00
*Please note that this event is at capacity and no longer accepting RSVPS*

Open to Columbia Startup Lab Uptown members.

Current Columbia and Barnard students who are working on a startup idea are eligible to become members of the Columbia Startup Lab Morningside. Please fill out this application for consideration. Admission is rolling.
If you are a current student who is not actively working on a startup idea, but is interested in entrepreneurship, please check out some of the other events on this calendar.

Start Me Up Bootcamp Kickoff (Rolling Deadline to Apply)
2022-10-19
APPLY HERE
Open to all Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College students.
Columbia Engineering hosts select group of entrepreneurs for a two-week program designed to build your startup. The bootcamp introduces participants to the Lean Launchpad methodology and techniques to direct customer discovery through field interviews.
Participants are required to conduct at least 20 customer interviews; attend online sessions and engage with other bootcamp teams and entrepreneurs. Teams “get out of the building” to learn from potential customers to determine if they are solving a real-world problem with a sizeable market opportunity.
Benefits include

Meet other entrepreneurs and alumni
Join for endless networking opportunities
Receive feedback from Columbia faculty and mentors
Learn about potential funding opportunities
Find out where to plug in Columbia’s wide-ranging entrepreneurial community

Fundraising Workshop (Virtual) - Fundraising in a Challenging Environment with Lauri Moore '09CC.
2022-10-27 12:00 - 13:00
Open to all Columbians, including Teachers College and Barnard.
Money is critical fuel for your company, but asking for investments is not easy. It is, however, a muscle that can be trained and a skill that can be learned. The current environment makes it even more critical to approach fundraising with a clear intention and process. Join us for a discussion about strategies and stories from fundraising in the current lean fundraising environment. Lauri Moore ’09CC is a partner at Foundation Capital where she invests across the enterprise stack at early stages. REGISTER TODAY

Pitch Practice Workshop (Virtual) - Impressing Venture Competition Judges (And Angels) in 5 Minutes or Less
2022-11-01 14:00 - 15:00
Open to all Columbians, including Teachers College and Barnard.
Impressing Venture Competition Judges (And Angels) in 5 Minutes or Less with Chris McGarry, Sr. Dir. Columbia Entrepreneurship. This how-to pitch workshop is for first-time founders and intermediate-level entrepreneurs. Before your startup takes off, someone has to sell something! First, sell your vision! Learn how to tie together the elements of a basic pitch including how to intertwine Customer Problems, with Value Propositions, Market Sizes, and credible Financials into a cohesive and persuasive story — in under five minutes! REGISTER TODAY

Panel Discussion on Startups
2022-11-04 14:00 - 15:30
This is an open forum for the Columbia University entrepreneurship community.
RSVP here
Join Columbia Engineering to learn the basics about fundraising and legal considerations for startups. This event is open to all schools and students campus-wide.
2:00 – 2:30 PM Coffee and Networking
Arrive early for coffee and network with entrepreneurs, students and mentors at the event.
2:30 – 3:30 PM Panel Discussion
Explore the basics on fundraising for startups, the recent trends, and approaching investors. Panelists to be announced.
Why attend?

Support Columbia Entrepreneurs
Meet our Start Me Up Bootcamp teams
Connect with new and old friends!
Excellent opportunity to get started and learn about entrepreneurship at Columbia

Columbia Venture Competition: Columbia-CareOne Healthcare Innovation Challenge, Fall 2022 (Deadline, Nov 7)
2022-11-07
Columbia-CareOne Healthcare Innovation Challenge
o Information, eligibility, and timelines CVC Website Here
o Registration Deadline: Monday, November 7th Midnight – REGISTER TODAY

Design for Social Innovation, Spring 2022 (Deadline)
2022-11-11
Are you interested in tackling complex problems through human centered design?
Design For Social Innovation (DFSI) is a semester-long course taught by Sarah Holloway (SIPA and SPS) and Adam Royalty (Columbia Designer in Residence) where Columbia University students and faculty support social enterprises, nonprofit organizations, and the public sector to address complex, ambiguous global problems through human centered design. The course is open to students from Columbia’s 20 undergraduate and graduate schools via an application and interview process.

The 3.0 credit course is a collaboration between the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

The class will take place in-person on Wednesdays from 11:00am – 12:50pm at the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio (meeting all but four Wednesdays when teams are “out of the building” interviewing, workshopping and with teaching team in office hours)

In addition to class time, there will be two (2) mandatory Design Sprints on January 20-21 and February 10-11 (Fridays and Saturday, Jan 21 – 1pm to 5pm; Saturday Feb 11 10am to 2pm)

The application-only course will accept a total of 30 students for the Spring 2023 term

This Spring, we will work with NYC-based organizations around the themes of Democracy, Affordable Housing, Civic Innovation, Medical Equity, Financial Security, etc. If selected, you will be placed on a team based on your background and interest.
Applications are now live and they will close at 11:59pm EDT on Friday, November 11. We will be notifying students of acceptance by the end of day on Monday, November 14.
Apply Here!

Columbia Venture Competition Workshop - Understanding Customer Discovery and the Business Model Canvas
2022-11-11 11:00 - 12:00
Open to all undergraduate Columbians, including Barnard.
Columbia Venture Competition Undergraduate Challenge – Understanding Customer Discovery and the Business Model Canvas.
The CVC Undergraduate Challenge is focused on product growth and team learnings — how you’ve gained insights from your customers, how you’ve iterated your MVP, and the process of finding a product-market fit. To learn more about the steps to achieve this, join our customer discovery workshop on Nov 11th at 11am ET where we’ll discuss how to talk to potential users, learn about their pain points, and how you can determine if your problem is a meaningful one to solve. REGISTER TODAY

University - Thanksgiving Break
2022-11-24 - 2022-11-25

Columbia Venture Competition: Undergraduate Challenge (Deadline, Nov 27)
2022-11-27
Undergraduate Challenge
o Information, eligibility, and timelines CVC Website Here
o Registration Deadline: Sunday, November 27th Midnight – REGISTER TODAY

University - Last Day of Classes
2022-12-12

University - Final Exams and End of Fall Semester
2022-12-16

Carbontech Development Initiative
2023-01-13
Learn More
CDI aims to transform New York State into a hub for the carbontech industry by incubating promising research initiatives and mid- to late-stage startups working on key facets of the carbontech value chain, through five programs – three Research Programs supporting research targeting high impact carbontech breakthroughs and accelerating technology from benchtop to commercialization and two Carbontech Commercialization Programs that support startups at mid- and late-stage commercialization through funding and training interventions. Overall, total grants of up to USD 2.75 million will be made to the cohort.

Columbia Innovation Forum: Immigration and Entrepreneurship
2023-01-19 17:00 - 19:00
Register Here
Columbia Engineering’s Innovation Forum will feature Megan Kludt, Partner at Curran, Berger & Kludt LLP, a boutique law firm specializing in all areas of immigration, including business, achievement, investment, family, and humanitarian bases for immigration status. Attend to hear about options and requirements for various visas, such as: J1, O-1B, and H-1B; visa options and NYC/NYS immigration resources for foreign startup founders.

AlleyCon 2023
2023-02-17
Register here
Alleycon, Columbia Business School’s technology, startup, and venture capital conference, invites you to the financial district of Manhattan for 9 hours of amazing networking, speakers, and atmosphere.
