eShip News – July 2024

eShip News – July 2024

Director’s Note: Enjoy summer!

Summer means lots of planning for Entrepreneurship at Cornell – budgeting, planning, new program discussion, etc.  But the news just keeps coming!  Enjoy the rest of your summer!

-Zach Shulman ’87, JD’90
Director, Entrepreneurship at Cornell

$10M gift from Seneca Foods will support the Cornell Food Venture Center

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

Rev: Ithaca Startup Works puts new entrepreneurs through their paces

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.

Rev: Ithaca Startup Works unveils new “Protofacturing” program

Rev: Ithaca Startup Works launched applications for the business incubator’s new Protofacturing Hardware Accelerator — a program connecting the existing Prototyping and Manufacturing Hardware Accelerators and helping entrepreneurs refine their prototypes.

Building a better swim cap for people of color

Entrepreneur Saira Patel has always been reluctant to jump into a pool or an ocean because of the hassle it creates with her hair.

Startup Cornell Episode #34: Jamey Edwards ’96, MBA ’03

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

Cornell startup offers AI-powered math help

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

Aspiring entrepreneurs get inspired at NYC event

Joe Gelber MBA ’18 thinks he has a great idea for a machine to help people recycle more efficiently. So, he came to a Cornell Entrepreneur Network in partnership with Cornell Alumni Career Programs event in New York City June 18 to get some ideas for moving his idea forward.

Special thanks to our corporate sponsor partnerships

Entrepreneurship at Cornell is delighted to receive support from a wonderful group of Corporate Sponsor Partners who help make our work possible.