INNOVATION, DESIGN & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Our organization helps students learn about innovation, design, and entrepreneurship helping them build a community, form teams, and support promising ideas with funding through competitions. We also provide spaces and other resources for prototyping and testing. Visit the About Us page to learn more.

Startup Columbia 2026 Finalé, April 16

Register to attend the Millard Chan ’99 Technology Challenge finale on April 16. The School of Engineering provides a prize pool of $60K for winning teams based on a solid foundation of applied, solution-focused, technological innovation.

Community

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“We are so grateful to Columbia for providing the resources. It’s been so amazing to be part of this community.”

David Faes, Kathedra, 2025 First Place Winning Team of the Millard Chan '99 Tech Challenge

News

Columbia Students Showcase Big Ideas in Just 60 Seconds

📆 November 19, 2025

Welcome the 2025-2026 Cohort of the Columbia Startup Lab

📆 June 25, 2025

Breakthrough Ideas from Columbia’s Young Entrepreneurs

📆 April 30, 2025

Making Hardtech Entrepreneurship (a Little) Easier in NYC

📆 March 17, 2025

AI, Cybersecurity, and the Power of Networks with Neil Daswani BS’96

📆 October 21, 2025

Celebrating the First MBAxMS Cohort

📆 May 16, 2025

A Launchpad for Innovation: NSF I-Corps

📆 April 15, 2025

Tech CEO: Dean Kamen on Innovation, Impact, and Reinventing Medicine

📆 February 27, 2025

From Theorist to Tech CEO

📆 July 7, 2025

Congratulations 2025 Startup Columbia Winners!

📆 May 14, 2025

Columbia Engineering Mourns IT Exec and Entrepreneur Edward Botwinick BS’58

📆 March 19, 2025

Ioannis Kymissis Elected to the National Academy of Inventors

📆 December 11, 2024

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