by wpengine | Dec 3, 2021 | Blog, Class of 2018, Companies, News, Success Stories
eLab alum Hunter Friedland ‘19, founder and CEO of cannabinoid ingredient manufacturer Cirona Labs, was recently profiled by the Cornell SC Johnson School of Business. Cirona Labs creates nano-emulsion cannabinoid...
by wpengine | Dec 1, 2021 | Blog, Class of 2022, Companies, News
Students in 20 businesses pitched their ideas to 150 Cornell alumni, investors and friends during the eLab pitch night Nov. 11 at Cornell Tech in New York City. The night gave students one of the first opportunities to share their ideas since they were chosen for eLab...
by wpengine | Oct 11, 2021 | Blog, Class of 2021, Companies, News
Last week, the Clinton Foundation and Verizon announced the winning teams of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2021 Social Innovation Challenge. Among the winners was recent eLab alumni team (Class of 2021), Vita Innovations. The Cornell based student...
by wpengine | Oct 11, 2021 | Blog, Class of 2022, News
Following a competitive application process, eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator, announced the 20 student teams selected for participation in the 2021-22 cohort. In the upcoming year, these aspiring startup founders will complete entrepreneurship bootcamps,...
by wpengine | Sep 28, 2021 | Blog, Class of 2021, Companies, News, Success Stories
AI-Learners, a Cornell University student startup and participant in eLab’s 2021 cohort, was recently featured in Tompkins Weekly for its efforts to help children with disabilities learn mathematics. The startup, led by CEO Adele Smolansky ‘23 and COO Mick Bronsky...
by wpengine | Sep 20, 2021 | Class of 2020
The third episode of Startup Cornell, Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s podcast highlighting the entrepreneurial ideas and success stories of Cornell students, faculty, staff, and alumni, featured eLab alumnus, Jehron Petty ‘20. Petty is the founder and CEO of ColorStack,...
by wpengine | Aug 31, 2021 | Blog, News
Andrea Ippolito, an eLab instructor and lecturer at the Cornell University College of Engineering and SC Johnson College of Business, recently authored a guest column for Crunchbase News. In a follow-up to her May 2021...
by wpengine | Jul 12, 2021 | Class of 2018
A Schuyler County-Cornell pilot project, inspired by Antithesis Foods, could help New York farmers diversify their crops with chickpeas and give regional food manufacturers a cost-effective, local source for the popular legume. Carl Taber knelt down at the edge of a...
by wpengine | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog, Class of 2021, Companies, Success Stories
Vita Innovations, a Cornell University student startup creating functional biomedical wearables, is here to change the game in emergency medicine by combatting the impacts of emergency department overcrowding. Founded by a group of Cornell students passionate about...
by wpengine | Jul 7, 2021 | Class of 2015
ProducePay, an eLab alumni (Class of 2015), closed a $43 million Series C funding round this spring. This latest round of funding brings ProducePay, a fintech leader in the fresh produce industry, to over $300 million raised in debt and equity funding since it...
