Columbia Entrepreneurship

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Support Columbia Student & Alumni Entrepreneurs

Your gift to the Campbell Center is a gift to all Columbia founders of businesses and social enterprises. Because it takes more than grit and brilliance to launch a new venture, we offer financial help through the annual Startup Columbia venture competition, space and mentoring at the Columbia Startup Lab in SoHo, and support for current students exploring entrepreneurship at the Columbia Startup Lab Uptown. Please support the Campbell Center for Entrepreneurship on Columbia Giving Day!

"CSL gave me the affirmation I needed to ignore the fluff and commit to my real dreams."

—Vignesh Karthik ’26SEAS, who went on to raise $4M with fellow CSL member Connor Lee ’26SEAS after pivoting and honing his startup.

Key Programs

Columbia Startup Lab Downtown

The Columbia Startup Lab in SoHo is a living testimony to Columbia's longstanding spirit of innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship. Your gift today supports Columbia alumni entrepreneurs representing industries from fintech to fashion to food, in addition to nonprofit and social ventures. Gifts to this fund support the mentoring, training, and programming the Campbell Center provides to alumni founders to help them and their ventures succeed.

StartupColumbia Venture Competition

Each year, more than 200 Columbia-founded startups enter one of our venture competition challenges. Your gift to this fund today directly supports prizes for the winning founders, who are all students or recent alumni from any Columbia-affiliated school, including Barnard. The judging panel is assembled from Columbia's worldwide community of savvy and supportive entrepreneurs from around the world.

Columbia Startup Lab Uptown

To support current student entrepreneurs, you can give to Columbia Startup Lab Uptown, which provides a host of campus-wide programming, open working space, mentorship, and connection for aspiring student founders currently enrolled at Columbia and Barnard, whether they are new to entrepreneurship or are actively working on a specific startup.