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The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Breanna Neff ‘16, founder and chief food scientist at brelixi, a company that makes drink mixes infused with nano-CBD or THC, as well as electrolytes, adaptogens and nootropics.

At Eclectic Convergence 2024, a Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit held November 15, 2024, on the Cornell Tech Campus in New York City, Ponsi Trivisvavet, MBA ’99, CEO of Inari, shared her insights on leadership, innovation, and the complexities of improving agriculture.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Lloyd Robinson ’87, president and owner of Awisco, a family-owned welding business started in 1952.

New Report Quantifies Cornell Tech’s Role in Attracting Talent to New York City and Growing the City’s Tech Sector

It’s no secret that coordination between marketing and sales is an important component of generating revenue for businesses – unfortunately the reality isn’t quite so harmonious.

A team of students with an idea using AI to help food service establishments reduce food waste won the top prize in the Food Hackathon, which took place Oct. 25-27 in Stocking Hall.

Prakhar Singhania, an undergraduate exchange student from India studying supply chain, food science and material science, stood at the lectern and spoke quickly, outlining a scenario that seemed far from the third-floor conference room of eHub on Oct. 22.

Gallox Semiconductors, led by Jonathan McCandless, Ph.D. ’23, has been selected for the fourth cohort of the Breakthrough Energy Fellows, a group of entrepreneurs focusing on technology that reduce greenhouse gases.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Jen Barnwell ‘96, president of Curator Hotel & Resort Collection.

Twenty-four student teams have been selected for the Fall 2024 cohort of eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator. Now welcoming its 16th credit-bearing cohort, eLab accepts student founders from any field of study across Cornell and trains them to launch their businesses.  Established in 2008 by the Student Agencies Foundation and Entrepreneurship at Cornell, many eLab alumni have flourished following their graduation from the program.  ProducePay, an alum of the 2015 eLab cohort, raised $38 million in a series D funding round this year. GradeWiz, a 2023 eLab team, is running a pilot of their AI grading assistant. Their product is being tested for eLab grading this year, and other Cornell and Ithaca College professors are participating in the pilot.  eLab teams undergo intensive entrepreneurship boot camps, conduct customer discovery interviews, fine-tune their business plans and connect with a network of successful Cornell alumni, all while earning college credit from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.  “eLab is unique in that it accepts undergraduate juniors to Ph.D. candidates from any program at Cornell,” said Ken Rother, managing director of eLab and lecturer in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. “What participants have in common is a desire to address […]

Company leaders in healthcare, fintech, agtech, venture capital and basketball will take the stage as speakers for the 2024 Eclectic Convergence conference in New York City, organized by Entrepreneurship at Cornell.

Investors view CEOs more favorably when they respond to shareholder activism in ways that conform to gender stereotypes, according to new Cornell research.

From its conception in the fall of 2023 to its launch in the spring of 2024, Gorges Ventures, a student-managed and financed investment club, met a resounding, enthusiastic response both from seasoned entrepreneurs who became the startup’s advisors and from fellow classmates, the fund’s investors.

Noor El-Hawwat’s journey into the tech industry began with a simple decision to follow in her sister’s footsteps and major in computer science. However, what started as a straightforward choice soon blossomed into a passion for tech, combined with a drive to uplift underrepresented minorities, set her on a path that would lead her to Cornell Tech—first through its Break Through Tech program and now as a master’s student in the Master of Engineering in Computer Science program.

Twenty-nine Cornell MBA students in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, together with PhD candidates from across Cornell University and postdoctoral fellows from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, have joined the third cohort of Cornell’s Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellows program, an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship and translation program offered by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Smoke Wallin ’88.

Sometimes a researcher goes into the lab and comes out with a discovery. Sometimes that discovery is issued a patent. Very rarely does the process also involve an undergraduate, a potential breakthrough for biomedical printing and cell therapy, and a little help from Bill Nye ’77 the Science Guy.

Martina Pablo Pablo ’26 starting picking coffee beans when she was five years old, on her father’s small plot of land in a remote area in Guatemala.

More than 300 students learned about the entrepreneurship ecosystem at Cornell during a kickoff event Sept. 5 at eHub in Collegetown.

The twenty startups competing for a $3 million in prize money in the sixth annual Grow-NY Food and Agriculture Business Competition promise to lead innovation and growth beyond their own companies, to the global food and agriculture industry and the region’s abundant agrifood ecosystem.

Cornell University’s Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellows (LSTIF) gathered in midtown Manhattan at Cornell’s 570 Lexington Avenue space to pitch their startup ideas and celebrate a successful year at their culminating showcase event on March 16.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Josh Gully ‘83, managing director of NewEdge Wealth and founding member of their New York office.

The lines between two of New York City’s defining industries – artificial intelligence/technology and design – are increasingly blurry.

Each year, eleven federal agencies allocate a portion of their budget toward non-dilutive seed funding for early-stage and startup companies. The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR and STTR) grants are competitive, and the application process can be daunting.   The SBIR/STTR Assistance Program helps connect eligible researchers with SBIR/STTR consultants to help them navigate the proposal process and write a proposal. Since the start of 2024, four participants in the program won SBIR/STTR grants:  Rivalia Chemical: Awarded a $275,000 Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to harvest rare earth elements essential to technologies from sustainable energy infrastructure to consumer electronics from coal combustion byproducts, satiating US demand for REEs for an estimated 100 years.  Soctera: Awarded a $1M NSF Phase II grant to develop a thermally optimized power amplifier that increases 5G signal range – helping to eliminate the digital divide in rural areas.  REEgen: Awarded a $275,000 NSF Phase I grant to engineer a bacteria that will help extract rare earth elements more efficiently and ethically.    Carbon To Stone: Awarded $256,000 Phase I grant from the Department of Energy to convert CO2 into calcium and magnesium carbonates for the iron, steel, and […]

Arthur Wolcott ’49 went to an auction in Dundee, New York as a Cornell senior, looking for a good deal on a typewriter.

Inventing a new product that you can hold in your hands and bring successfully to an eagerly awaiting market is sometimes likened to childbirth: If we knew from the outset how hard it was going to be, fewer of us would do it.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Jamey Edwards, president & chief strategy officer at Koko Home.

One TikTok video that went viral confirmed to Nour Gajial ’26 and Yanni Kouloumbis ’26 that they were on to something with MathGPT.

The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management has selected the 2024 cohort of startup teams participating in its Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator. Notable for their innovative use of AI and new technology, the 28 companies are pursuing forward-thinking solutions in healthcare, hospitality, agriculture, entertainment, and more. The program The Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator (JSSA) enables graduate students to develop their entrepreneurial pursuits during the summer when they might otherwise feel pressure to push their dreams aside and gain internship experience in an established company. The accelerator is a structured and supportive 10-week program that provides participants the time, network, and knowledge to develop their business ideas into defined strategies and marketable products. The entrepreneurs receive hands-on training in weekly workshops, professional networking opportunities, and are supported in one-on-one consultations by dedicated Entrepreneurs in Residence. Enabling innovation MBA students planning to work full time on their startups post-graduation were eligible to apply for a stipend from the Vrinda Kadiyali Student Entrepreneur Fund. Stephen Smith ’91, MBA ’95, established the fund in honor of Vrinda Kadiyali, the Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management, who inspired him to launch his startup. Smith’s idea ultimately became Naviance, the successful college and career readiness software. Smith believes that the summer between the […]

Vancouver home health-care company Nurse Next Door owes a lot to its formidable founders Ken Sim and John DeHart, but also to their legendary mentor, Milton Wong

“In this accelerator, we not only have our faculty explore their deep scientific questions but also help them expand their mindset to think of themselves as innovators and entrepreneurs,” said Loren Busby, director of BioVenture eLab, a part of Enterprise Innovation. She shared these remarks at the 2024 Business Plan Challenge pitch competition, which took place at Uris Auditorium on June 4.

Marissa Saporta ’99 followed in her father’s footsteps toward the family business before reimagining her future and the world of e-commerce.

For Sammi and John Collins, the spark of innovation was born of hardship.

The 2024 Kessler Fellows have accepted internships and will spend the summer gaining firsthand entrepreneurial experience in industries ranging from supersonic airliners to a sustainable interior design company.

Since 1929, Jeremy Brunner’s family has been in the business of manufacturing environmentally friendly gardening products, from fertilizers to lawn food and potting soil.

Many innovators working in renewable energy and climate technology leverage entrepreneurship to maximize the impact of their work. Charlotte Hamilton ’95, MBA ’04, a lifelong entrepreneur and the CEO of N5 Solar, is one such innovator.  The co-founder of five hard technology startups and co-inventor of multiple pieces of intellectual property, Hamilton was named an Unreasonable Fellow in 2021 and won the grand prize for Clean Energy Research at CleanEquity Monaco. She was also featured as an inaugural member of the Gaingels 100, a book honoring 100 leading LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs.  On April 26, Hamilton shared her insights on clean energy entrepreneurship with the Cornell community at a free presentation hosted by W.E. Cornell and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. She described her path in entrepreneurship and the lessons she learned from each startup she co-founded.  Hamilton started her entrepreneurial journey as an MBA student with Distributed Generation Technologies (DGT), a startup focused on using multiple technologies to generate power in a distributed manner. While the startup didn’t work out, it was a valuable learning experience:  “Be selective, and I mean this about the technology and the opportunity that you’re going to move forward,” she said. “Just because you invented […]

This semester, four freshmen founded an organization that provides a space for student entrepreneurs to build and think creatively.

Big Red Ventures (BRV), Cornell University’s early-stage venture capital fund run by MBAs and other graduate students, presented its portfolio and announced a new investment during the Annual Meeting on April 18 at Cornell Tech.

Student teams from eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator, and Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute Runway Startup Program at Cornell Tech pitched their innovative ideas at San Francisco’s Autodesk Gallery on March 28.

More than 300 people joined in two days of campus activities celebrating Cornell entrepreneurs April 11-12, including events to honor Tim Barry ’93 as the 2024 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Tim Barry ‘93, the chair and CEO of VillageMD, and this year’s Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year.

Director's Note: It's time for Celebration! All hands on deck for the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration April 11th and 12th on our Ithaca campus.  The 2024 Entrepreneur of the Year will be featured, the 2024 Student Business of Year winner will be announced, and we will hear from the co-founder and President of Whipnotic.  And [...]

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Peyton Johnson, a member of the Class of 2024 and founder of a company that helps students find off-campus housing.

The Kessler Fellows program recently welcomed 20 students to its 2024 cohort. The students will spend their spring semesters sharpening their entrepreneurial skills while preparing for a fully funded summer internship at a startup of their choice.

Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) has announced the Ignite Innovation Acceleration grant recipients for the Fall 2023 application cycle.

A Cornell doctoral student is building a company based on a radio-based technology that could sense cardiac and respiratory troubles for patients without the need for them to wear a bulky monitor or skin electrodes.

New research from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business sheds light on career development and entrepreneurship within the global high-end fashion industry.

It’s 6 p.m. and you’d like some vegan food for dinner but aren’t sure what you’re in the mood for. You need to pick up some milk at the store, and you’re also looking for a gym where you can get in a workout.

The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business is proud to announce that Cate Khan ’99, cofounder and CEO of VerishopGroup and a Dyson School graduate, has been selected to receive the inaugural Dyson Alumni Leadership Award. Jinhua Zhao, David J. Nolan Dean of the Dyson School, will present the award to Khan at Dyson Leads, April 11, 2024, in New York City, where Khan and Zhao will also engage in a fireside chat about responsible leadership.