Columbia IDE
Innovation,
Design and
Entrepreneurship
2022 – 2023 Academic Year
Fall 2022 dates
Sep 22 | Innovation Forum: Welcome Back Entrepreneurs
Sep 28 | Ask Me Anything with Hubbub
Oct 13 | Ask Me Anything with AvoMD
Oct – Nov | Fall 2022 Start Me Up Bootcamp
Oct 20 | Innovation Forum
Oct 28 | Fast Pitch 2022 application deadline
Nov 4 | Panel Discussion on Startups
Nov 16 | Fast Pitch 2022 competition on campus
Spring 2023 dates
Jan 19 | Innovation Forum: Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Feb 7 | Meet Your Match: Speed Dating for Entrepreneurs
Feb 15 | Entrepreneurship Lunch
Feb 21 | CVC Tech Challenge application deadline
Mar 23 | Innovation Forum: The Pivot
Apr 4 | Pitch Practice event (tbd)
Apr 12-14 | CVC Tech Challenge
Apr 21 | Ignition grant application deadline
Apr 27 – May 12 | Spring 2023 Start Me Up Bootcamp
Student Spotlight
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.
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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