Students from the eLab Student Startup Accelerator, the Runway Startups Postdocs Program at Cornell Tech, and BioVenture eLab at Weill Cornell Medicine, made their annual trek to San Francisco for the Cornell Silicon Valley: Student Startup Showcase to pitch their innovative startups at Autodesk Gallery on March 26.

33 startups were accepted for the eLab student startup accelerator fall cohort, and 15 will advance to the spring cohort. These startups have made significant progress and identified a viable pathway to a scalable business.

Cornell’s student startup accelerator, eLab, is proud to announce the 33 student teams selected for its Fall 2025 cohort!

Teams from eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator; the Runway Startup Postdocs Program at Cornell Tech; and BioVenture eLab at Weill Cornell Medicine pitched their innovative business ideas at the annual Cornell Silicon Valley: Student Startup Showcase at San Francisco’s Autodesk Gallery on March 27.

Twenty-four 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.

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.

Of the 28 teams that completed eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator, this fall, 17 startups are continuing their progress by participating in the Spring cohort after having proven their business ideas.

Teams from eLab, Cornell’s student accelerator, and Cornell Tech’s Runway Startups program shared their business ideas to an audience full of members of the West Coast Cornell community at the Student Startup Showcase, presented by Cornell Silicon Valley, on March 30 at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco. 

Of the 28 teams that eLab, Cornell’s student accelerator, welcomed in the fall, 11 student startups will continue on to the spring semester having validated their diverse business ideas.

On Oct. 20, the 28 student teams who are part of the eLab student business accelerator in Ithaca had the opportunity to pitch their ideas in New York City.