Startup Cornell

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. They also support early-stage ventures with marketing mentorship, as well as offer marketing help to non-profits and academic organizations.

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 can vote for him every day until Dec. 5 at this link: https://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/vote/10/

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 it’s like to work with your family and some exciting new changes coming for the brand.

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 climate justice.

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.

We talk about the incredible impact this new product could have and about Seth's other digital health companies.

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 family member who was his inspiration for starting Lokai, how he grew the company and some of the best advice he’s ever been given as an entrepreneur.

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 for young entrepreneurs.

The Startup Cornell podcast, which launched in summer 2021, features interviews with Cornell entrepreneurs, who tell their stories of successes and failures and offer actionable advice for building and growing a business.