Resources

Offers and Discounts

  • Qualtrics (survey tool for students)
  • Zendesk (CRM platform): Visit zendesk.com/startups. Apply. Choose Columbia as your program.
  • Amazon Web Services: $5K in Amazon Web Services credit for CBS entrepreneurs
  • Stripe (online payments tool)
    • For Columbia students:
      • $20,000 fee-free processing (some restrictions apply) 

      • Atlas incorporation for $250 (normally $500) 

      • Early access to new product features and 
exclusive Stripe events

    • To get started click here
  • Hureka Tech
    • Ask about discounts for CBS students and alumni. Hureka is where business founders and mission-driven entrepreneurs go to build custom mobile/web applications and develop digital marketing strategies that drive business. Founded by alumnus Roopak Gupta ’18.
  • The Daily Stack (daily, M-F, live talks with founders and operators)

Cross-Campus Resources

Columbia University offers a broad variety of student clubs including those focusing on startups, venture capital, entrepreneurship through acquisition, and other aspects of entrepreneurship.
Student Clubs 

CEID connects innovation hubs throughout Columbia’s schools and consolidates opportunities for collaboration and curriculum in the university’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design

The Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio teaches students, alumni and faculty customer-centric methodologies for developing innovative, and practical solutions to ill-defined problems. 
Design Studio

The Columbia Engineering Entrepreneurship Program plans and executes events, competitions, grants, and programs across the School of Engineering.
Columbia Engineering Entrepreneurship 

The Makerspace at Columbia is a Columbia University-run workshop providing a wide variety of tools and a space in which Columbia entrepreneurs can work, share ideas, and collaborate.
Columbia Makerspace 

Columbia Technology Ventures is the technology transfer office for Columbia University and a central location for many of the technology innovations across the university.
Columbia Technology Ventures

The Columbia Lab-to-Market (L2M) Accelerator Network serves as a framework to successfully develop, launch, and execute initiatives to help commercialize academic research.
Lab-to-Market Accelerator Network

CVC fosters entrepreneurship among Columbia alumni, students and staff by facilitating communication, providing access to resources, and creating a vibrant and supportive community.
Columbia Venture Community