Columbia IDE
Innovation
Design and
Entrepreneurship

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!
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.
Register this Fall in one or more entrepreneurship courses to kick off the school year.
2023 – 2024 Academic Year
Fall 2023
Sep 21 | Innovation Forum: Welcome Back Entrepreneurs
Oct 11 | Innovation Forum: Perfect Your Pitch with Pete Slosberg
Oct 12 – Oct 27 | Start Me Up Bootcamp
Oct 25 | Ask Me Anything: Fast Pitch 2023
Oct 27 | VC Negotiations workshop with Hugh Thomas
Oct 30 | Fast Pitch 2023 application deadline
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, 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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