Application Deadline: Pitch HearstLabU
👩🎓 You: Founder of a women-led startup and current student (or recent grad) with plans to take your business to the next level this summer 👥 Us: A community of women entrepreneurs looking to close the gender gap in VC through an exciting and innovative new pitch competition Match made in heaven? You'll have to […]
Application Deadline: Startup Works (hosted by CBS)
This six-session workshop series focuses on practical startup skills development and is designed to nurture leadership and talented people with conviction histories and to foster justice-involved startup team formation. Participants will gain practical entrepreneurship skills. Apply here
Start Me Up Bootcamp Kickoff
Join a select group of entrepreneurs for a two-week virtual 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 […]
Unpacking Product Market Fit with Mike Lewis
Mike Lewis, General Partner at Enjoy the Work, will define Product Market Fit (PMF), a framework for seeking PMF, and provide tips on what to do if there remains a gap between customer, problem and solution. RSVP Here
Rolling Admission: Columbia Startup Lab Uptown
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. Our on-campus programming is structured to catch […]
Fundraising 101 for Startups with NY Angels
Join Columbia Engineering to learn the basics about fundraising for startups with NY Angels' Nikos Theodosopoulos, BS'84. This event is open to all schools and students campus-wide. RSVP HERE 12:00 - 12:30 PM Lunch and Networking Arrive early for lunch and network with entrepreneurs, students and mentors at the event. 12:30 - 1:45 PM Startup Fundraising Explore the […]
Pitch HearstLab
Calling all female founders! Apply to Pitch HearstLab, a pitch event for female founders in the US. Winner(s) will receive $100k in investment and 3 months of support from HearstLab, an investor in early-stage, women-led startups. Submit your application here by August 8th. Finalists will pitch live in San Antonio on October 18th.
Rolling Admission: Columbia Startup Lab Morningside
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. Our on-campus programming is structured to catch […]
Networking Happy Hour – ESG
Calling all individuals interested in the venture space – entrepreneurs, founders, investors, venture capitalists – Join Columbia Venture Community for in-person networking happy hours on the 2nd Thursday of each month in 2023! For the second half of the year, join us for an exciting series of events happening on 8/10/23, 9/14/23, 10/12/23, 11/09/23, and […]
Deadline: Tamer Fund for Social Ventures
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures (TFSV) 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 2023 application deadline has been extended to September 15 at 11:59 p.m. ET, and the spring application deadline is March 1 […]