Columbia IDE

Innovation

Design and

Entrepreneurship

Mission

Our organization helps students learn about innovation, design, and entrepreneurship helping them build a community, form teams, and supporting promising ideas with funding through competitions. We also provide spaces and other resources for prototyping and testing.

Fast Pitch on November 15

Thank you all for coming to the event! Wednesday, November 15th was Columbia’s annual Fast Pitch competition. Participants provide a one-minute pitch of their start-up to an esteemed panel of judges and alumni. Over 35 teams competed for a $5,000 prize pool to help directly fund their companies and scale their idea. There were three categories, an undergraduate and graduate category along with an audience choice award, and we are excited to share this year’s winners!

Upcoming Event:

January 24 Columbia Innovation Forum:

Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Please join us for an open forum to learn more about entrepreneurship and network with the Columbia University startup community. You’ll hear from Columbia alumni and other experts on their experiences working in the field, how they’ve applied their Columbia experience in their careers, and more.

Fall 2023 entrepreneurship courses available

2023 – 2024 Academic Year

Fall 2023

Sep 21 | Innovation Forum: Welcome Back Entrepreneurs

Nov 15 | Fast Pitch 2023 competition

Spring 2024

Jan 24 | Innovation Forum: Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Feb X | Ask Me Anything
Feb X | Innovation Forum
Feb X | Millard Chan ’99 Technology Challenge application deadline

Mar X | Innovation Forum

Apr X | Millard Chan ’99 Technology Challenge Finalé
Apr X | Ignition grant application deadline
Apr X – May X | Start Me Up Bootcamp
May X | Big Mistakes Founders Make

Spotlight

Text IQ

Apoorv Agarwal PhD'16

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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How to Start a Startup

Daniela Duron Garcia BS’20, Erin McNulty BS’23, and Maya Joudi GS’22

Three women entrepreneurs discuss perseverance, funding, and honing your concept. Most entrepreneurs would agree that the most difficult stage for any startup venture is getting the idea off the ground. You might have a good product, you might even have a target market, but there are a million questions that come up on the way to turning a great concept into a solid company.

Tough Tech: The Kinnos Mission

Get to know infection prevention startup Kinnos, co-founded by Columbia alumni, and how it’s revolutionizing disinfectant solutions to protect patients and communities worldwide.

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Learning

Funding

Space

Columbia Startup Lab

Welcome the 2023-2024 cohort of the Columbia Startup Lab!

Entrepreneur

Jern Kunpittaya ’23, co-founder of crypto startup Edge Protocol, took an unexpected path into decentralized finance

Venture Competition Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the Technology Challenge

COI and IP Resources

Conflict of interest - Office of Research Compliance and Training

Start-up Companies and Conflicts of Interest (PDF)

More info can be found here:
https://research.columbia.edu/content/coi-policies-and-resources.

Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV)

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.