Startup Cornell

Our new episode features Trisha Beher ’25, founder of Women Leaders of Color at Cornell and the Art Shine Foundation. Trisha is a student in the College of Business who founded Women Leaders of Color as a first-year student to unite and empower women of color and prepare them for leadership roles in their fields.

Our newest episode features Tim Barry ‘93, the chair and CEO of VillageMD, and this year’s Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year. Barry founded VillageMD in 2013 with the idea that he could use technology, population insights and a network of expert health care professionals to provide high-quality care, better patient outcomes and a reduction in total costs.

Our newest episode features Peyton Johnson, a member of the Class of 2024 and founder of a company that helps students find off-campus housing. Her company is part of this year’s eLab, a Cornell student accelerator powered by Student Agencies Foundation and Entrepreneurship at Cornell. Peyton is also a Milstein Scholar at Cornell and is majoring in math with a concentration in computer science.

Our new episode features Harman Singh Narula ‘09, co-founder and CEO of Canary Technologies, a hotel technology company. Canary provides a host of guest-facing operations technologies to thousands of hotels across the globe.

Our newest episode features Matt Nastos ’10, CEO of Maison MRKT, a digital marketing agency specializing in growth marketing, customer acquisition, lead generation and business intelligence. Matt founded the agency with his brother, Lexi. Using technology and data analytics, the agency helps brands manage their customer relationships from discovery all the way through to retention and loyalty. The...

Our newest episode features Osei Boateng ’18, MHA ‘20, founder of OKB Hope Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery in Africa especially in rural and low-income communities. The organization offers mobile health clinics that travel to remote locations in Ghana to offer routine medical care. Boateng is also one of the finalists for CNN’s Hero of the Year contest. You c...

Our new episode features Lauren Brand ’12, co-founder of Fatty Sundays, a company that creates chocolate covered pretzels in an array of unique flavors that are customizable for any occasion. Lauren and her sister Ali founded the business to share their mom’s famous rainbow sprinkle recipe with the world, as well as other gourmet pretzel varieties. We talk about how they choose new flavors, what i...

Our newest episode features Colin Day ’97 founder and former CEO of iCIMS, a company that offers cloud software for recruiting to help organizations attract, hire and advance employees who will build a diverse and winning workforce. Now an advisor to iCIMS, Day is helping to give back to the business community through advising and board memberships. He’s also engaged in philanthropy centered on cl...

Our newest episode features Seth Feuerstein ‘94, founder of Oui Therapeutics, a company developing a digital therapeutic going through the FDA process and seeking to be the first prescription product available for people at risk of dying by suicide. A psychiatrist and an attorney, Seth is also the executive director and founder of Yale School of Medicine’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation....

Our new episode features Kim Hehir ’94, cofounder and president of Brutus Broth, a family-run business created from a passion and commitment to enhance canine diets. Kim talks about her journey to founding Brutus Broth with her sister, after starting her career in the hospitality industry, and also shares how they navigated the complicated pet food and supplement marketplace.

The 22st episode of this Entrepreneurship at Cornell podcast features Steven Izen ’13, founder and CEO of Lokai and Elements. Lokai, the iconic bracelet brand, inspires its community to find balance in life and Izen’s newest venture, Elements of Balance, is a functional beverage brand that uses clinically-effective levels of adaptogens to support energy, focus, calm and sleep. Izen talks about the...

The 21st episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Nona Ullman ‘88, CEO of LessonLoop and president of Improve LLC, companies focused on the public education and information technology sectors. Ullman talks about building her business to help improve learning for kids in K-12 classrooms by helping teachers to measure student engagement and offers advice...

The 20th episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, features Barry Beck ’90, co-founder and former CEO of Bluemercury, the nationwide luxury beauty brand that was acquired by Macy’s in 2015. Beck is also the founder and CEO of Evenly Technologies, Inc., a technology and telemedicine orthodontic platform, and co-founder of M-61 Laboratories, creators of M-61 Skincare and Lune+Aster...

Our 19th episode features Trishala Dessai ’17 MBA ‘23, founder of Gig-Up, a startup that matches gig-economy workers to consumers to complete the consumer’s to-do-lists. Dessai is a member of eLab, Cornell’s student business accelerator.

Natalie Egan ’02 (she/her), founder of Translator Inc., a startup that builds diversity, equity and inclusion software for corporations, schools and nonprofits, talks about how she started her business.

Our new episode features Jared Karson ‘13, co-founder and CFO of Horatio, a business that allows companies to outsource their customer support and back-office support tasks.

Our 16th episode features Julia and Alexander Littauer, co-founders of Sovi Wine, a company that’s created high-quality non-alcoholic wines for times when you want a glass of wine but not the alcohol. They tell the story of how they launched this business after graduating with MBAs from Cornell, how their extensive experience in the wine industry helps them to create their product and what’s next...

The 15th episode of our podcast features Ken Babcock ‘13, co-founder of Tango, a company that helps you to create beautiful step-by-step how-to guides with screenshots. He talks about how his product, a free-to-use Chrome extension, works to capture and create written, step-by-step how-to guides in real-time without the need for video recording, solving a time-consuming problem for anyone who has...

The 14th episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features David Stein MBA ‘20, co-founder and CEO of Ash Wellness, a company that makes healthcare more accessible and inclusive by offering at-home testing kits. The company started offering kits for sexually-transmitted diseases, but has expanded to offer tests for hormones, metabolism, thyroid and numerous othe...

The 13th episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Aziza Glass D.V.M. ‘15, owner of Personal Touch Veterinary Clinic and a star on the Disney XD and Hulu show“Roman to the Rescue.” She also has her own line of hair, face and body products and is launching a line of planners and organizational tools.

The 12th episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features highlights of each episode this past year, including; Nick Nickitas, Brooke Wingo, Jehron Petty, Jamie Kim, JP Pollak, Stephanie Cartin, Laura Ciccone, Taly Matiteyahu, Rich Horgan, Kayla Foley, Jasheah Howard, Ghali Jorio and Stephanie Wisner.

The 11th episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Stephanie Wisner ’16, co-founder of Centivax, a therapeutics company that’s creating universal vaccines to reduce and eradicate the remaining complex pathogens of the 21st century. She is also the author of a newly-released book, “Building Backwards to Biotech: The Power of Entrepreneurship to Drive Cutt...

The tenth episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Ghali Jorio ’22, founder of AfriTrip Advisors Morocco, a travel company that offers private and customized trips around Morocco.

The ninth episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Kayla Foley, MBA ’22 and Jasheah Howard MEng ’22, co-founders of Staff on Tap, a digital marketplace that fills long-term care provider’s scheduling needs by connecting them to temp nurses in the area. Through their platform, full-time and part-time nurses looking for extra money through additional shif...

The eighth episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Rich Horgan ‘14, founder of Cure Rare Disease, a non-profit biotech company working to create individualized therapeutics using CRISPR technology to treat people impacted by rare diseases.