Applications for the annual Grow-NY food and agriculture business competition are open to high-growth agrifood startups through May 15.
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Applications open for seventh annual Grow-NY competition
Student startup pilots AI grading assistant, joins Y Combinator
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.
Cornell Entrepreneurs Excel in Local Pitch Competitions
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.
Celebrating 10 years at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works
In response to the 2014 opening of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, CNN Business ran the headline: “Can this Small Town Compete with Silicon Valley?” While Ithaca has made headlines for its oversized number of startups per capita and having the highest R&D expenditures in New York state, 10 years later, it’s clear Rev: Ithaca Startup Works is not interested in competing with Silicon Valley, but in imagining an entrepreneurial ecosystem entirely its own. Over the past 10 years, Rev’s member startups have created over 1,000 jobs and generated over 100 million dollars in revenue.
Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator Teams Pitch Startups in NYC
The Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator (JSSA), offered by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, is an intensive, summer-long program that guides MBA student founders through three phases of entrepreneurship education: customer discovery, developing solutions, and testing.
Empire State Development Announces Selected Finalists for Round Six of Annual $3 Million Grow-NY Global Business Competition
Inventing a new product that you can hold in your hands and bring successfully to an eagerly awaiting market is sometimes likened to childbirth: If we knew from the outset how hard it was going to be, fewer of us would do it.
Dairy Runway Welcomes a Fresh Batch of Entrepreneurs
This month, a new cohort of dairy innovators started Dairy Runway, a free entrepreneurship program supporting early-stage ideas for value-added dairy products using New York State cow’s milk.
Rev: Ithaca Startup Works puts new entrepreneurs through their paces
Inventing a new product that you can hold in your hands and bring successfully to an eagerly awaiting market is sometimes likened to childbirth: If we knew from the outset how hard it was going to be, fewer of us would do it.
Rev: Ithaca Startup Works unveils new “Protofacturing” program
Rev: Ithaca Startup Works launched applications for the business incubator’s new Protofacturing Hardware Accelerator — a program connecting the existing Prototyping and Manufacturing Hardware Accelerators and helping entrepreneurs refine their prototypes.
Introducing the 2024 Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator Cohort
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management has selected the 2024 cohort of startup teams participating in its Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator.