Director’s Note: Welcome Back!
Plenty of Cornell eship news to read, but I want to remind you about our upcoming Eclectic Convergence conference coming up on October 31st (yes, Halloween) at Cornell Tech. We have a wonderful speaker line up and hope to see you there! Here is the link to the conference. Thanks!
-Zach Shulman ’87, JD’90
Director, Entrepreneurship at Cornell
Familiarity breeds success for fledgling companies
Teams featuring at least one “stranger” – someone unknown by the team before its formation – are more than twice as likely to fail as teams of friends, family members […]
Startup Cornell Episode #48: John Hui MBA ’15
The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features John Hui MBA ‘15, former CEO and co-founder of Twiage, a digital health company that provides communication technology […]
Introducing the Fourth Cohort of Life Sciences Innovation Fellows
Thirty-eight 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 […]
GradeWhiz: The Cornell Startup Using AI to Give Teachers Their Time Back
What began as a frustrating teaching assistant experience has since transformed into one of the most promising student-led startups in educational technology as two Cornellians forge into the world of […]
Jiang Fellows Tell All
Cornell Tech welcomes 11 new startups through Runway and Spinout programs
Cornell Tech welcomes 11 new startups to its campus this September through its Runway Startups Program — with ventures tackling challenges that range from agricultural robotics and energy systems to fertility care, […]
Big Red Beds: A Student-Created Startup Dreaming up a Business Legacy
Adequate sleep is critical for the average college student, but according to Christian Tarala ’27, the Twin XL mattress sizes in the dormitories have made this challenging. After experiencing this […]
Faculty awarded entrepreneurship funding
Ten faculty members are recipients of 2025 Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships, receiving funds of $1,500 to $3,000 to help develop or expand courses, pursue research opportunities or add teaching […]
Cornell’s Ignite Innovation Acceleration program supports inventors, early-stage innovations
Six Cornell inventors have been selected for the spring 2025 cycle of the Ignite Innovation Acceleration program, a gap funding initiative that helps researchers advance early-stage technologies to the next inflection point […]
Entrepreneurial students flock to kickoff event
Students streamed into eHub in Collegetown Sept. 4 for an event hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, featuring more than 30 resource tables and pitches from four students hoping to be […]
PROFILE: Will Malnati
There’s no doubt that college years are some of the most formative in young people’s lives.
New Faculty Jose Sanchez Wants You to Play With Architecture — Literally
Jose Sanchez doesn’t just design buildings — he designs games that teach people how to build a better world.
Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI
Inspired by his grandparents, who were apple farmers in China, Charlie Wu got the idea to apply technology to agriculture while studying computer science at Cornell University, a top agriculture […]
JSSA Culminates with Demo Day Pitch Event
The largest cohort of the Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator (JSSA) in program history pitched their startups to members of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management community in New […]
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