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In collaboration with Chloe Capital, CREA has launched Diversity in ClimateTech with the purpose of recruiting, educating, inspiring and supporting capitalization in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and women founders developing startups with cleantech innovations.
The W.E. Cornell program, which aims to improve gender representation in entrepreneurship, is launching its spring cohort as industries reckon with the inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke to a tough path ahead for the upstate New York economy at Cornell’s annual town-gown regional meeting on January 26.
Among the metropolitan areas in Upstate New York, Ithaca had the highest concentration of federal grants awarded to start-ups and small companies in the STEM space in 2018.
The latest achievement by a Cornellian-led startup dedicated to protecting honeybees – a $500,000 runner-up prize at the fifth annual 76West Clean Energy Competition – is creating quite the buzz in New York’s Southern Tier.
Despite economic uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Kessler Fellows secured summer internships at successful startups across the region and nation.
A new company called BioAncient is taking an innovative approach to producing beverages. The startup specializes in fermented plant-based beverages that are naturally rich in bioactive peptides.
From 2009 through 2019, the College of Engineering’s Kessler Fellows program gave third-year engineering students exposure to the business of entrepreneurship through academic coursework, interaction with entrepreneurs in residence and a startup experience. The program has implemented some major changes for 2020: It has expanded, and is now available to juniors in any STEM field.
