Startup Cornell

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 Cutting-Edge Science to Market.”

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 shifts can post listings on StaffOnTap's marketplace with customized rates, schedules and locations and then are connected to nursing homes in need of temporary help.

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.

The seventh episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell features Laura Ciccone ‘11 and Taly Matiteyahu, co-founders of Blink, a voice-first blind speed dating app that helps people build meaningful connections based on genuine compatibility. They also host Date in a Blink, a voice-only speed dating podcast experience.

Both of them say they are obsessed with the psychology behind how people connect and how technology can help people find and build strong relationships.

The sixth episode of our podcast, hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, features Stephanie Cartin, founder of Socialfly, CEO of Entrepreneuristas and co-author of "Like, Love, Follow: The Entreprenista's Guide to Using Social Media To Grow Your Business.”

The fifth episode of Startup Cornell, a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, features JP Pollak, co-founder and chief architect at The Commons Project Foundation, a senior researcher-in-residence at Cornell Tech and an assistant professor of clinical epidemiology at Weill Cornell Medical College.

The Commons Project is a nonprofit public trust established to build platforms and services to make life better for people around the world. Several of their current projects involve apps that provide a secure and verifiable way for people to document their health status – including their COVID vaccination and test results -- as they travel and cross borders.

In this episode, we talk with Jamie Kim from the Class of 2019, founder and CEO of Jamie’s Farm, a company that inspires change in the way we eat on a daily basis through the humble form of granola. She started the business as an undergrad at Cornell, after years of gifting unique culinary-inspired flavors of granola to friends, playing with interesting ingredients like clementines, rosemary or curry.

In this episode, we talk with Jehron Petty from the Class of 2020, founder and CEO of ColorStack, a nonprofit on a mission to increase the number of Black, Latinx, and Native American college students in computing through community building and career development. While studying Computer Science at Cornell, he interned at companies like Two Sigma and Google as both a software engineer and product manager. Jehron turned down the Google APM program and instead raised over $500K to seed ColorStack.

The second episode of a new podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Brooke Wingo ’17, cofounder and president of Zone Swimwear, a company offering fully customizable suits for teams.