eShip News – September 2021

Gifts totaling $10 million – $5 million from Steve Conine ’95 and his wife Alexi Conine ’96, and $5 million from Niraj Shah ’95 and his wife Jill Shah – will support the construction of a leading-edge new building for the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.

The fourth episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell,  features Jamie Kim ’19, founder and CEO of Jamie’s Farm, a company that inspires change in the way we eat on a daily basis through the humble form of granola.

The Geneva, NY-based company supplies water-soluble cannabinoid and botanical ingredients. During an interview at SupplySide East, Hunter Friedland, founder and CEO, explained how Cirona Labs was born out of Cornell University.

While the U.S. economy continues to suffer the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and escalating climate disasters, American entrepreneurship remains as resilient as ever.

From fully autonomous berry harvesters to plant-based lupini bean protein bars, the startups competing for $3 million in prize money at this year’s Grow-NY Food and Agriculture Competition are bringing revolutionary innovations to market.

Nearly 300 students flocked to eHub in Collegetown Sept. 9 for a kickoff event hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, where two student teams were declared winners of the eLab pitch contest.

State and university leaders gathered for a ribbon cutting Sept. 9 to celebrate the $3.5 million renovation of Jordan Hall on the Cornell AgriTech campus in Geneva

From online yoga teacher certification to a socially equitable real estate development company, the Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator (JSSA), a ten-week summer intensive to propel student entrepreneurs to success, graduated its newest cohort of innovative startup founders this summer.

Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao was a doctoral student in the early 2010s when smartwatches were all the rage.

Sil Ganzó launched her nonprofit eight years ago.

SimpliFed, a company dedicated to revolutionizing infant nutrition via their virtual lactation and baby feeding support platform, has raised $500K in their pre-seed round.

Students who have an interest in business creation, venture capital, technology, startups, social enterprises or anything related to entrepreneurship can learn more about the vast array of available campus resources during Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s kickoff event Sept. 9 at eHub Collegetown, 409 College Ave.

It takes a quick stride to follow Alix Daguin through her farm, All One One All (AOOA).

Chari.ma, a Moroccan company that supplies some of what the company stated are 200,000 convenience stores in the country, has completed an acquisition and raised capital, according to published reports and news releases.

When the pandemic hit last year, Dajohn Orange, owner and head cook of downtown-based pop-up D Lo’s Kitchen, was forced to put his dream of opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant on hold.