Columbia Startup Lab (CSL) Uptown

“CSL gave me the affirmation I needed to ignore the fluff and commit to my real dreams.”

– Vignesh Karthik ’26SEAS, who went on to raise $4M with fellow CSL Uptowner Connor Lee ’26SEAS after pivoting and honing his startup.

CSL Uptown 2024
Director of Entrepreneurship Dave Lerner hosts a session of CSL Uptown.

 

Currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate students at Columbia and Barnard are welcome to send their Names, UNIs, Anticipated Graduation Year, and School Affiliation (SIPA, Engineering, etc) to cslmorningside(at)gmail.com to join the community.

For those who are interested in entrepreneurship, curious about startups, and/or who may be in the ideation stages or earliest stages of a new venture, and want to learn more about startups, entrepreneurship, the various entrepreneurship events on campus, we have you covered.

This is all about jumping into the community and meeting others, exchanging ideas and building bonds.  We will get to know one another, have entrepreneurs and investors give talks from time to time and learn as much as possible about startups, venture capital and using the latest AI tools to get moving. 

*Sessions will resume in Fall 2026* 

 

CSL Uptown members visit CSL Soho and hear from full time Columbia entrepreneurs Nick DeGiacomo and Alexandra Bono, as well as Professor and early stage investor Jeremy Kagan.