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Cornell Tech Assistant Professor Raaz Dwivedi has co-founded Traversal, a startup emerging from stealth this week with a mission: to transform how modern software systems detect and resolve outages using artificial intelligence.

Cornell AgriTech will be exhibiting in the Debut District in the upcoming 2025 Summer Fancy Food Show, the largest business-to-business specialty food industry event in North America.

Gallox Semiconductors, a startup with roots at Cornell University, has had recent success on the international stage, winning the 2025 Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge in the Advanced Computing & Electronics category.

Just before the world shut down in 2020 due to COVID-19, Hao Shi, Ph.D. ’20, finished the last experiment for his doctoral research. He had developed an advanced imaging tool that visualizes the gut microbiome – the community of bacteria and other tiny organisms that live in human intestines – and saw the innovation’s potential for real-world impact for fighting disease.

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

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 — for an extreme case of menstrual cramps.

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

Cornell’s incubator Class of 2025, composed of startups Llume, Meiogenix and TETmedical, is advancing innovations in human performance monitoring, non-GMO plant breeding and neurological critical care.

More than 300 alumni, students, faculty, staff and community members joined Celebration Ezra 2025 on April 10-11, to network, get inspired and honor the Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year, John Bicket ’02.

Think you’re busy? Meet Skyler Mott. Scholar, Athlete, Entrepreneur.

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 [...]

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

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.

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

Director's Note: Celebrate! Here in Ithaca, we can feel spring right around the corner.  And there is a lot to celebrate!  The School of Human Ecology is celebrating its 100th anniversary and Cornell Tech is celebrating its 10th anniversary!  Our eLab students are getting ready to travel to San Francisco for a student startup pitch [...]

24 startups were accepted for the eLab student startup accelerator fall cohort, and 13 will advance to the spring cohort. These startups have shown remarkable progress in validating their ideas and refining their business models.  The eLab program has been an asset to many student businesses and many have gone on to raise capital, launch new products, and successfully exit or grow their companies. Response, founded by Keivan Shahida ‘20, a member of the 2019 cohort, recently secured $4 million in seed funding. eLab 2024 alumni GradeWiz, founded by Max Bohun ‘25 and Aman Garg ‘25, were just accepted into Y Combinator’s winter ‘25 batch.   The student startups progressing to the spring semester have undergone intensive entrepreneurial training, including feasibility analyses, business model development, and mentorship from industry experts.   “We joined eLab to help grow Crit by being in an environment of other entrepreneurs. We know that having access to mentors who have built companies before, dealt with fundraising, scaling, marketing—and any of the other aspects of starting a business that we are in the middle of figuring out—will put us in a better position to become the company we know we can be,” said Damon Hollenbeck ‘25, founder of […]

GradeWiz, an artificial-intelligence teaching assistant founded by Cornell undergraduates Max Bohun ’25 and Aman Garg ’25, has been accepted into startup accelerator Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 Batch.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Heather Jiang MBA ’16, founder of Allegorie, a small-batch accessory company that turns discarded fruits into wallets, bags and backpacks.

Welcome to another episode of The Coral Capital Podcast, a show where we bring on guests from tech, business, politics, and culture to talk about all things Japan.

Four hackathons this semester will offer opportunities for students to innovate creative solutions related to artificial intelligence, digital agriculture, animal health and human health. Two events will be on campus and two will take place in New York City.

Cornell engineers are aiming to create a big leap in vascular grafts, used to combat cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, fintech, and digital technology in general, companies of all sizes  – whether they are an early-stage startup or a publicly traded corporation – need lawyers who specialize in the legal and commercial aspects of these technologies.

When Dr. Tamatha Fenster received a call from a young patient requesting a refill on her Oxycodone for pelvic pain, she was faced with a dilemma: letting the patient remain in pain or refill a prescription and perpetuate an opioid dependency.

The Fuzehub 2024 Commercialization Competition during the New York State Innovation Summit had seven prize winners, five of which are Cornell-supported entrepreneurs. Of the five, four have participated in multiple hardware accelerators at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works and the grand prize winner is a current Center for Life Science Ventures member, a former Life Science Technology Fellow and Ignite Fellow.   FuzeHub, a not-for-profit organization that supports small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in New York State, hosted its eighth Commercialization Competition this year. Twelve startups competed for the chance to win $50,000 by pitching their business plans to a panel of judges with the opportunity to win the $150,000 grand prize.    Anova Biomedical was named the first-place team and the grand prize winner of $150,000. Anova Biomedical is developing the first fully synthetic and bioresorbable vascular grafts to improve the standard care for patients. Anova is committed to remaining in upstate NY and will create quality jobs in the medical device field, an underdeveloped sector for the region.    Of the other Cornell-affiliated companies’ runner-ups were Ergami Endoscopy, Eutrobac, FASS Syringe, and Triton Bio, all of which have participated in Rev: Ithaca Startup Works hardware accelerator programs. The hardware accelerators, offered in partnership with Cornell Engineering, are cohort-based programs that […]

Just over a year ago, Douglas Ford ’23 woke up to severe chest pains while visiting family in a rural town in South Jersey.

Director's Note: Happy holidays, everyone! First off, Gobble Gobble!!  We hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving.  On our end, our big Eclectic Convergence conference at Cornell Tech earlier in the month was fantastic!  One of our best due to our superb speakers.  And our team also held two hackathon events in November, one in [...]

Ponsi Trivisvavet MBA ’99 knew she had found her true north when the seeds she delivered to an Indonesian farmer helped him to increase his crop yields enough that he was able to buy a cow – to provide meat for his family — for the first time in his life.

Unibaio of New York City, which offers naturally derived particles that trap the active ingredients of pesticides and fertilizers, enabling them to penetrate plants more efficiently, was awarded the $1 million grand prize in the sixth annual Grow-NY Food and Agriculture business competition.

For a person with hearing loss, a room full of people talking all at once can be a nightmare scenario.

By Veronica Buezo Talavera The Cornell SBIR/STTR Assistance Program continues to support early-stage companies in securing non-dilutive funding from federal agencies. In the third quarter of 2024, two Cornell startups in the program were awarded STTR Phase I grants totaling nearly $775,000:  EchoICs: Awarded a $275,000 STTR Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a tunable resonator circuit technique for radio frequency integrated circuits. This technology aims to improve the quality, reliability, and coverage of wireless networks, including defense communication and commercial cellular (4G/5G) networks. The company, founded by Alyssa Apsel, Ph.D., Director of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, and Thomas Tapen, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in Apsel’s lab, propose a project that could lead to higher data rates, increased user density, and lower energy use in wireless communications.  Neuralenz: Founded by Oybek Kholiqov, a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech, Neuralenz received a $498,995 STTR Phase I grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to develop Neuralenz Flow, an integrated platform for rapid, non-invasive, real-time measurement of critical factors used in diagnosing and treating stroke patients. The technology focuses on measuring cerebral blood flow, cerebral blood volume, intracranial pressure, and critical closing pressure, […]

Director's Note: Happy Halloween! October was a big month for eship news!  We hope you enjoy all the features.  We are heads down focusing on the final Eclectic Convergence logistics and execution.  Hope to see you at Cornell Tech on November 15th for a great day of inspiring speakers and connecting with the Cornell eship [...]

John Marks ’65 has spent the past four-plus decades addressing some of the world’s most intractable conflicts through his nongovernmental organization (NGO), Search for Common Ground.

Rev: Ithaca Startup Works has incubated more than 117 businesses and its member companies have created 849 new jobs, raised $205 million in capital and generated over $123 million in revenue, according to data released to mark the downtown business incubator’s 10-year anniversary.

The sixth annual Grow-NY Summit, to be held Nov. 6-7 at the new Ithaca Downtown Conference Center, will feature business leaders and entrepreneurs working to advance sustainability, address global challenges and shape the future of food and agriculture.

Entrepreneurship at Cornell is hosting more hackathons than ever before this year – on topics as broad as food, AI, health tech, digital ag, animal health and talent management. The weekend-long events allow students from diverse backgrounds to come together to develop innovative solutions to the world’s biggest challenges.

Ratan N. Tata ’59, B. Arch. ’62, one of India’s most influential and respected business leaders and philanthropists, and a former Cornell trustee who became the university’s largest international donor – supporting scholarships, research to reduce rural poverty and malnutrition in India, and technology innovation – died Oct. 9 in Mumbai. He was 86.

Thirteen faculty members are recipients of 2024 Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships, receiving funds of $1,500 to $3,000 to help develop or expand courses and add teaching assistants.

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.

Director's Note: Go teams! Happy fall, everyone!  Leaves are starting to change….slowly.  Cornell beat Yale in football….YAY! Our 24 teams for eLab are selected and busy doing customer discovery.  And our big NYC conference is around the corner – we hope to see you at Eclectic Convergence on November 15th at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt [...]

Sitting in the passenger seat, Terry Wehe Ryan ’69 grabs the steering wheel and veers the car off to the side of a country road. Her husband, Rob Ryan ’69, has just broken the news that he’s firing her from their tech startup—so he can afford to keep another female employee on the payroll.

With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Cornell and a group of institutional partners have created the Upstate New York Energy Storage Engine to advance energy storage technology and boost large-capacity battery manufacturing in upstate New York – which could enable advances in electric vehicles and renewable energy storage.

Fourteen Cornell MBA students, PhD candidates, and a postdoctoral innovation fellow have joined the second cohort of the Green Technology Innovation Fellows program, an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship and translation program offered by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

For Joseph Astrachan, a co-author of Cornell’s Family Business Leadership online certificate program, a family-run business is a generational tradition.

Director's Note: Welcome Back!! Our fall semester is off to a great start, with our eShip Kickoff event on Thursday, September 5th.  It is wonderful to have the students back on campus and feel all the entrepreneurship energy!  Reminder, if you want to be on top of the Cornell eShip ecosystem, join our listserv – [...]

Cornell Tech today announced the newest cohort of 13 startup companies that will enter its established Runway incubator program this September.

Kush Jain ’22 has been named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for work by his company, ORama AI, which has developed a high-tech glove to help people learn to read Braille.

Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech are pleased to announce that David Reiss joined their faculties on July 1, 2024, as Clinical Professor of Law and Research Director of the Blassberg-Rice Center for Entrepreneurship Law.

Cornell Engineering’s Scientific Artificial Intelligence (SciAI) Center has partnered with Pasteur Labs, an alumnus-founded startup, to break new ground in human-AI collaboration for scientific discovery and industrial applications.