Columbia Entrepreneurship
Support Columbia Entrepreneurs Who Are Creating Our Future
Your gift to Columbia Entrepreneurship 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 Columbia Venture Competition, and space and mentoring at the Columbia Startup Lab (uptown for students, downtown for alumni) to explore entrepreneurship. Please support Columbia Entrepreneurship on Columbia Giving Day!
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 Columbia Entrepreneurship provides to alumni founders to help them and their ventures succeed.
Columbia Venture Competition
Each year, more than 230 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, hailing from Bordeaux to Beijing to Brooklyn.
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.