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On-Campus Entrepreneurship Programs
Our on-campus entrepreneurship programs provide the tools for students, faculty, staff, and alumni to take their entrepreneurial ideas to the next level. From mentorship and relationship building, webinars and business accelerators, to co-working spaces and competitions, we support and amplify all entrepreneurship activity across Cornell’s campuses.
Impact
Our programs bring entrepreneurs together in a community of innovation.
Over 300 students have participated in our entrepreneurial programs
Over 75 entrepreneurs-in-residence have mentored our on-campus entrepreneurial community
Over 100 student startups have gone from ideation to operation after completing our programs
Campus Connections
We collaborate with the entrepreneurial community across Cornell University’s campus to amplify the opportunities and resources in our innovation network.
News in Accelerators & Incubators
Sales for Startups Pilot Helps Entrepreneurs Put Theory into Practice
Sales is one of the most critical steps in growing a startup, yet many founders lack sales experience and are unaware of the skills and tools available to make it easier. A new pilot program, Sales for Startups, is helping entrepreneurs put sales theory into successful practice.
New Program Will Support Diverse Founders of Climate Tech Startups
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.
W.E. Cornell Takes on Inequity in Entrepreneurship
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.
Commercialization Fellows Help Bring Innovation to Market
The Commercialization Fellowship, which wrapped up its fifth cohort in December 2020, introduces Ph.D. candidates in Engineering to the process of turning their academic research into businesses that solve real-world problems.
Jehron Petty: ColorStack Founder, Community Builder
Jehron Petty ’20, co-founder of Black Entrepreneurs in Training and alumni of eLab, is on a mission to move the needle for diversity and inclusivity in the tech industry with the launch of ColorStack, which aims to increase the number of Black, Latinx, and Native American college students in computing.
Hochul Sees Brighter Days Ahead for Upstate Economy
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.
The Post-Pandemic Future of Collegetowns: Leveraging Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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.
MBA Candidates Reflect on Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator
This past summer, a select number of students participated in the first ever Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator.
Cornell Startup Combplex Wins $500K in 76West Competition
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.