Columbia Engineering
Innovation
Design and
Entrepreneurship
2024 – 2025 Calendar of Events
Fall 2024
September 18 Innovation Forum: Entrepreneurship at Columbia Engineering
October 10 Innovation Forum: Columbia Startup Lab
October 10 – 31 Start Me Up Fall Bootcamp
October 28 Ask Me Anything: Fast Pitch 2024 (RSVP tbd)
October 30 Fast Pitch application deadline
November 20 Fast Pitch 2024 pitch competition
Spring 2025
January NSF I-Corps Info Session
January Innovation Forum: Immigration and Entrepreneurship
January – February Start Me Up Winter Bootcamp (dates tbd)
February Innovation Forum: TBA
February Meet SEAS at the Columbia Startup Lab
February Millard Chan ’99 Startup Columbia Technology Challenge deadline
March Innovation Forum: TBA
April Millard Chan ’99 Startup Columbia Technology Challenge Finalé
April – May Start Me Up Spring Bootcamp
May Ignition grant application deadline
Register this Fall for one or more entrepreneurship courses to kick off the school year. Courses include: Human-Centered Design and Innovation, Foundations of Entrepreneurship, Launch Your Startup and more.
Text IQ, a student startup co-founded in 2014 by Apoorv Agarwal, MS ‘08 and PhD ‘16 in computer science, is one of the few technology startups that became profitable in a year. The startup was acquired by Relativity, a global legal and compliance technology company, in 2021.
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COI and IP Resources
Two Online Libraries of Commercialization Resources for Faculty & Students
Columbia Grant Clauses Library contains up-to-date clauses relating to entrepreneurship and technology commercialization for use in grant proposal preparation. The library is available here, with UNI logon.
Columbia Commercialization & Entrepreneurial Resources Database is a university-wide resource geared toward providing a comprehensive and searchable list of all entrepreneurially-related activity at Columbia. Available here.
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