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.
Coming Up: Big Mistakes Founders Make and Fundraising on May 12

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.
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Columbia Entrepreneurs Win Seed Funding at Millard Chan ‘99 Tech Challenge

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
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.
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Learning

Innovation Forum
Start Me Up Bootcamp
Ask Me Anything

Funding

Fast Pitch
Ignition Grants
Columbia Venture Competitoin

Space

Makerspace
Columbia Startup Lab
Design Studio
Discover Resources

2022-2023 Columbia Startup Lab

Welcome to the 2022-2023 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
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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.

 

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