eShip News May 2025

eShip News May 2025

Director’s Note: …Done!

Slope Day done! Finals done! Senior week done! Graduation done! Our ’24-’25 academic year is officially closed and in the book! Now, many students are off to summer internships. And some (maybe the lucky ones) are off working on their own startup companies.  We are pleased to have funded (through various programs) approximately 30 students to do just that, and we hope that their startups make significant progress over the summer.  Here is a Cornell Chronicle article highlighting a bunch of the students and their companies.

 

Enjoy your summers!

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

Students win summer awards to work on startups

Twenty-two students with entrepreneurial startups were awarded Human Spirit and Beck Fellowship summer stipend awards by Entrepreneurship at Cornell.

Startup Cornell Episode #44: Van Hamilton Barbeau ’11, MS/MBA ’20

Cornell Tech Awards $100K to Student Teams at Startups Competition

Four Cornell Tech student teams received $100,000 each from Cornell during Cornell Tech’s annual Startup Awards competition May 16 on the New York City campus. The winning companies are CreditQuant AI, gymii.ai, Polyrook and SAIL.

Funding fuels trials for CareTech Human’s health technology

A Cornell-based startup is advancing a solution that could improve care for the millions of people suffering from urological conditions in the U.S.

Snack startup Cramp Bites wins Hospitality Business Plan Competition

Armita Jamshidi ’25 and a friend were moving a fridge into Jamshidi’s dorm room her sophomore year when she suddenly felt a wave of sharp pain and could barely move or speak. Seven hours later, after losing consciousness in the hospital, she was released from the emergency room and told to take some ibuprofen — […]

Cornell Tech celebrates innovation and entrepreneurship with May events

To mark the end of this academic year, Cornell Tech will host a series of events in May to celebrate its campus culture.

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.