The 2024 Startup Columbia Venture Challenge, featuring the Brown-sponsored "Media Track," is now open for early-stage ventures by Columbia students and recent alumni. This competition offers non-dilutive cash prizes to innovative media ventures, with applications open now! Join us for an Information Session to learn more about the competition and how it can jumpstart your venture!
- Maybe you have an idea about how AI can help reporters in small newsrooms
- Maybe you're interested in encouraging new forms of collaboration between reporters
- Maybe you want to make working with data on your beat easier
- Maybe tools for the verification of images is important
- Maybe you're imagining a single-subject news site, or maybe it's a tool or platform, or maybe is a consultancy
Submissions are due by February 9, 2024 and winners not only receive cash prizes of up to $15k for their ventures but also scholarships for our 2024 Summer Entrepreneurship Program, and an opportunity to pitch for a grant of up to $100k.