eShip News March 2025

eShip News March 2025

Director’s Note: Go, Student Startup Teams!

Our semester is half over, and I just got back from the Bay Area.  I got to watch a bunch of our students present their startups at a pitch night held at the Autodesk Gallery.  The students did a wonderful job, and it is great to see their respective companies taking shape!  The students get to pitch again during eLab Demo Day coming up during our Celebration Ezra conference next week.  Go student startup teams!

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

SplatOverflow Enables Remote Hardware Troubleshooting

A team of researchers from Cornell Tech has developed a new tool designed to revolutionize hardware troubleshooting, with the help of 3D phone scans.

Startup Cornell Episode #42: Micere Mugweru ’25

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Cornell senior Micere Mugweru ’25, the founder of Mizoma Africa.

Saxbys Cafe: Offering College Students the Opportunity to Run Their Own Cafe for Credit

Anisa Kurbanali manages a bustling coffee shop in the heart of Philadelphia. Each day, she wakes up at 4:30 a.m., commutes 45 minutes to the cafe and works from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Cornell Engineering introduces Jiang Fellows entrepreneurship program

Cornell Engineering is proud to announce the Jiang Fellows program with the generous support of Tianyi (TJ) Jiang ’96, Ph.D. The program will succeed the Kessler Fellows program, which sunset this year after 15 years of fostering entrepreneurial growth among Cornell juniors.

Anshul Krishnan Bridges Science and Business Through Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellows

Anshul Krishnan, MBA ’23, joined the Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellows Program (LSTIF) to hone his entrepreneurial judgment after undervaluing his first venture.    “That experience shaped my resolve never to undervalue life science innovations and to ensure that cutting-edge research always reaches the market effectively,” said Krishnan.   A core component of the LSTIF program is […]

Applications open for seventh annual Grow-NY competition

Applications for the annual Grow-NY food and agriculture business competition are open to high-growth agrifood startups through May 15.

2024 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: Cipher, Cornell University (Johnson)

Cipher is a marketplace for viral music, and the only legal source of trending sounds for social media.

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.