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Innovation,
Design and
Entrepreneurship
Join Columbia Engineering to learn about fundraising and legal considerations for startups with Joshua L. Eisenson, Partner, Goodwin Law. This event is open to all schools and students campus-wide. Explore the basics with experts from the investment community and law field to understand fundraising, the recent trends, and approaching investors.
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 11 | Elevator Pitch and Startup Networking
Apr 12 | CVC Technology Challenge Finalé
Apr 18 | Craft Your Best Elevator Pitch
Apr 28 | Ignition grant application deadline
Apr 26 – May 12 | Spring 2023 Start Me Up Bootcamp
May 12 | Big Mistakes Founders Make
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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