Columbia-Corning Advanced Materials Prize

Selected projects/technologies/ventures will receive non-dilutive funding of $50,000, entrepreneurial training, introductions to senior R&D leadership at Corning, and the opportunity to work with the Corning team and on Corning equipment. All researchers at Columbia University (faculty, PhD students, postdocs, undergraduates) developing translational research projects in the advanced materials space are eligible. Learn more about eligible projects […]

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Deadline: StartupColumbia Challenge

The StartupColumbia Challenge is the largest of the six challenges and covers all categories of business models and industries. We’ll take not-for-profit, for-profit, and anything in between. We’ll take a look at Food or Fashion, Medical Devices or Healthcare Delivery solutions, widget models or service offerings, fledgling or pre-IPO ventures. Bring it on! Judges looked […]

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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, […]

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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 green construction application? Is your team working on carbon emission reduction or measurement? How about clean urban transportation, photovoltaics, or energy storage solutions? Show us […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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